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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. They found that LBOs not only led to an increase in firms’ patenting, but specifically, an increase in highly cited (a proxy for higher quality) patents. First, the effects on employment are mixed.

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