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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

The results of this paper provide support to an earlier article (“ The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ”) where we described a framework that companies could use to create value by doing good. SASB uses the U.S. Not all social and environmental initiatives are created equal.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. The result: a shortage of good growth ideas.

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