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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. Do PE investors do what the academy says are “best practices?”

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Product development' When is it possible to predict a product’s success? Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products?