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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. 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.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors. The future has really never looked better!

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. The same is true of everyone on his team. If not, the investors receive a lower return and risk losing their capital. Fortunately, we are witnessing three fundamental changes that offer hope.

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