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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.

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. How do they do it?

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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