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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

million in a Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) to buy an Oklahoma based Coca-Cola bottling company. When they sold the company in 2011, they had recouped over $400 million in after-tax dollars! On April Fools Day 1980, Bob Browne and his partners invested $7.5 Ask Bob if this was his crowning achievement, and he will quickly say, “No”.

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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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