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

Harvard Business Review

In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies. What about once PE firms make an investment?

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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. And, if prediction falls outside of an acceptable range, we should hold our teams accountable for predicting poorly. Product development'