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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. We gather career history data for the founders of all 76 private equity firms in our survey.

CAPM

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return

Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital.

Innovation

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint

Leadership Digital

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

Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

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