Private equity

If you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […]

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Instead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach.

A hybrid model can balance the short term with long-term continuity.

A study of 42 leveraged buyouts produced surprising findings that should guide policy reforms.

Historically, the efforts of private equity firms to address leadership challenges have been limited primarily to replacing portfolio-company CEOs. Now,...

They do it a lot and have learned what to look for.

Private equity fund performance is most often reported in a way that exaggerates the truth. A modified calculation gives a more accurate read of performance...

A new paper shows how leveraged buyouts lead to more patents.

As the 50-year-old industry matures, investment returns are falling. Here’s why — and where to go from here.

Critics charge that in today's heavily traded capital markets, executives are increasingly incentivized to manage in tiny, short-term windows, with an...

Why “buying to sell” can generate a much higher return on investment than the public company practice of “buying to keep”

With private equity buyouts and acquisitions on the rise, we turned to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner, a longtime observer and researcher of the private equity market, to shed light on the management impact that these deals are having on corporate executives. Lerner shares three core take-aways from the private equity school of management. […]

Times change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […]

The unique benefits of private equity investment

They don’t use the financial tools they learned in B-school.

Buyout firms would see opportunity for value enhancement in five key areas. Why not beat them to the punch?

A few months back I wrote about micro-decisions and how they can add up to macro money. But as a student of decision-making I would be remiss if I didn't...

Despite their reputation in the 1980s as corporate raiders, most private equity firms attempt to improve the performance of their portfolio companies...

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations...

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OCTOBER 20 15, ZURICH (SWITZERLAND). Michel Galeazzi and Felix Ackermann, the two co-founders of the private equity firm Evoco AG, were pondering their...

In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had...

The Tender case follows the journey of Miles Parker from his early days of joining an equipment financing company as a partner to the company's founder,...

The India-based company Baobab Clean Technologies was founded in September 2011 with a business model based on the premise of safety and sustainability...

In 2007, California-based Pannacotta Development had built iPort 12 near two active New Jersey shipping ports for $122 million. Now in 2011, with only...

During December 2012, Jorge Paulo Lemann, a co-founder and partner at 3G, proposed to Warren Buffett that 3G and Berkshire Hathaway acquire H. J. Heinz...

Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful...

In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States,...

In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial, U.S.,...

At luxury fashion house Maison Chloé, minds were focused on the first collection of new Creative Director, Gabriela Hearst, which was just hitting the...

Dodla Dairy, a family owned dairy business based in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, has successfully made its mark on the Indian liquid milk...

Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue...

Donatella, LLC will be losing a key board member in about two years, and the current board members must work to find a new member to replace him with...

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Yale University's investment office was responsible for managing its endowment, which totaled nearly $4 billion in June 1995. Yale had developed a rather...

A consortium of private equity firms (KKR and Silver Lake Partners) is in the process of acquiring the semi-conductor division of Agilent. To prepare...

If you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […]

Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations...

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OCTOBER 20 15, ZURICH (SWITZERLAND). Michel Galeazzi and Felix Ackermann, the two co-founders of the private equity firm Evoco AG, were pondering their...

In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had...

The Tender case follows the journey of Miles Parker from his early days of joining an equipment financing company as a partner to the company's founder,...

The India-based company Baobab Clean Technologies was founded in September 2011 with a business model based on the premise of safety and sustainability...

In 2007, California-based Pannacotta Development had built iPort 12 near two active New Jersey shipping ports for $122 million. Now in 2011, with only...

During December 2012, Jorge Paulo Lemann, a co-founder and partner at 3G, proposed to Warren Buffett that 3G and Berkshire Hathaway acquire H. J. Heinz...