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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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