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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

In this ambitious and wide-ranging book (Sys-Tao) , Bob Browne tells the story of the Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and of his career-long journey to find a better way—more efficient, more caring, more capable—for the people and the processes under his leadership. On April Fools Day 1980, Bob Browne and his partners invested $7.5

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Amess, Stiebale, and Wright gathered information from three different databases—one on firm characteristics like sales and industry type, one on LBO deals, and one on patent applications and citations. The authors found that three years after an LBO, PE-backed firms had filed 40% more high-quality patent applications than regular firms.

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