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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g., Traditionally, PE firms bring financial discipline and strategic clarity to firms they acquire. architectural design, streets, water, electricity, sewage, and regulations).

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Through a closed loop system the products are returned and the materials either recycled to make new high value products or put back into the earth through the biosphere. We did that.