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

Harvard Business Review

The private equity industry has grown markedly in the last 20 years and we know more than we used to about its effects on the economy. In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. Do PE investors do what the academy says are “best practices?”

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.