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

Harvard Business Review

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. the notion that debt financing can be “cheap” at certain times). What PE firms do after they invest.

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