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Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Truth About Private Equity Performance
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity fund performance is most often reported in a way that exaggerates the truth. A modified calculation gives a more accurate read of performance... -
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleBuyout firms would see opportunity for value enhancement in five key areas. Why not beat them to the punch? -
What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey don't use the financial tools they learned in B-school. -
Corporate Governance Should Combine the Best of Private Equity and Family Firms
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA hybrid model can balance the short term with long-term continuity. -
Private Equity’s Lessons for the Rest of Us
Private equity Digital ArticleA year ago, most of us couldn’t name a single asset in the Cerberus Capital Management portfolio. Today, we know them as the private equity firm that bought controlling interests in Chrysler, General Motor’s financing arm, and — as of this week — United Rentals, one of the world’s largest equipment rental companies. In spite […] -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled... -
Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHere’s how. -
How to Compete for Talent like a Private Equity Firm
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIf you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations... -
Turbocharging Asian Turnarounds
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity investors in Asia are fine-tuning the art of the turnaround using three principal strategies. -
The CEO of New Mountain Capital on Using PE Management to Ignite Growth
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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA new paper shows how leveraged buyouts lead to more patents. -
To Make Deals in the Middle Market, Private Equity Needs Cultural Literacy
Private equity Digital ArticleDoing business starts with building mutual trust and respect. -
Establish a Productive Private Equity Partnership
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDeals ultimately succeed or fail because of the people involved. -
Private Equity’s New Phase
Corporate governance Digital ArticleMore and more companies today are privately held. -
Do Politics Shape Buyout Performance?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA new study of private equity buyouts shows that, on average, U.S. acquisitions made in "red" (Republican) states deliver significantly higher returns... -
Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?
Strategy & Execution ResearchA study of 42 leveraged buyouts produced surprising findings that should guide policy reforms. -
Private Equity's Long View
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen getting a company ready to sell in the short term, it turns out, PE firms employ many of the best strategy practices--use debt aggressively, focus... -
Private Equity’s Mid-Life Crisis
Strategy Digital ArticleAs the 50-year-old industry matures, investment returns are falling. Here’s why — and where to go from here. -
Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIn good times and bad, the top private equity firms have outperformed most businesses over the past forty years-even during down cycles. Clearly, PE firms...
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Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Most companies around the world are family-controlled and/or closely held. The need to value these companies routinely arises in practice for a variety... -
Project Charlie - Target Information
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case IN1784 -
BC Partners: Acuris
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Nikos Stathopoulos, Managing Partner of BC Partners, as he and his team evaluate the potential sale of one of BC Partners' portfolio... -
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether... -
Endo Pharmaceuticals (E): Judge Stein Rules
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue... -
Oltre Venture: The Impact Revolution (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the start-up and early operation of a novel impact investing firm in Italy: Oltre Venture. Oltre Venture, which defines itself as... -
Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case teaches key success factors for both startups and established medtech firms. It examines how to structure a firm to maximize financial returns.... -
Tempur Sealy International (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Analyzes the commercial relationship between Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm following the events discussed in the B case. -
Shriram Transport Finance
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, the stock of Shriram Transport Finance Company (STFC) had just breached the ₹750 mark, signifying an appreciation of close to 80 per... -
Globant: Going Public
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The Fall of Banco Espirito Santo: Holy Spirit or Devil in Disguise?
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2014, after nearly 150 years as one of Portugal's most wealthy and powerful families, the EspÃrito Santo family completely lost control of its empire,... -
Private Equity Achieves Returns through Operating Improvements: CD&R's Acquisition and Turnaround of Hertz
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is preparing a bid for leading US car rental agency Hertz. By replacing Hertz's top managers, improving... -
Yamanote Kaikan
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2001, James O'Connell, president of Holyoke Japan, an affiliate of Larson Capital, a distress debt private equity firm, wants to bid on a 90 billion... -
MicroStrategy, Incorporated: PIPE
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In mid-June 2000, Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy, is considering an investment of $125 million of convertible preferred stock in his firm by... -
Taking Dell Private
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The... -
Italtel: Partnering with Cisco Systems (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The case series illustrates the decision-making process and the negotiation complexities of a leveraged buy-out proposal made by Italtel management to... -
Pioneers in Colombia
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Equity International made a $75 million equity investment in Bogota-based real estate company, Terranum Development and became the first institutional... -
Equity International: The Second Act, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International, is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country?...
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Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Most companies around the world are family-controlled and/or closely held. The need to value these companies routinely arises in practice for a variety... -
Truth About Private Equity Performance
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity fund performance is most often reported in a way that exaggerates the truth. A modified calculation gives a more accurate read of performance... -
Project Charlie - Target Information
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case IN1784 -
BC Partners: Acuris
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Nikos Stathopoulos, Managing Partner of BC Partners, as he and his team evaluate the potential sale of one of BC Partners' portfolio... -
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether... -
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleBuyout firms would see opportunity for value enhancement in five key areas. Why not beat them to the punch? -
Endo Pharmaceuticals (E): Judge Stein Rules
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue...