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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Amess, Stiebale, and Wright gathered information from three different databases—one on firm characteristics like sales and industry type, one on LBO deals, and one on patent applications and citations. Their sample included 35,081 firms and 407 buyouts that took place between 1998 and 2005. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

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). But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g.,

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