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How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity 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 a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Turbocharging Asian Turnarounds
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity investors in Asia are fine-tuning the art of the turnaround using three principal strategies. -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
What You Can Learn from the Private Equity School of Management
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWith private equity buyouts and acquisitions on the rise, we turned to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner, a longtime observer and researcher... -
Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA new paper shows how leveraged buyouts lead to more patents. -
Private Equity and the Ownership Decision
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleA few months back I wrote about micro-decisions and how they can add up to macro money. But as a student of decision-making I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that one big decision — who will own an organization — has a massive effect on performance, culture, and organizational effectiveness. I’m prompted […] -
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. -
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... -
Private Equity's Mid-Life Crisis
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAs the 50-year-old industry matures, investment returns are falling. Here's why - and where to go from here. -
Establish a Productive Private Equity Partnership
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDeals ultimately succeed or fail because of the people involved. -
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. -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Fundraising Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Lessons from Private-Equity Masters
Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate-equity firms routinely achieve eye-popping returns on the businesses they operate. Their secret? A relentless focus on four management disciplines. -
Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHere’s how. -
Private Equity's New Phase
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleMore and more companies today are privately held. -
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 […] -
Private Equity’s Long View
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleWhat can the gods of private equity teach us about managing for the long term? If you think that their lightning reflex, do-what-it-takes approach has nothing to tell us about the long haul, you’d be wrong. Maybe you imagine they simply take a business private, load it with debt, strip its assets, then sell it […] -
The Truth About Private Equity Performance
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleRising credit costs have already taken the bloom off private equity’s rose, but some funds (and some investors) are due for another shock. Our research shows that the way PE fund performance is most often reported overstates the truth. Here’s the problem: Private equity returns are often reported as the internal rate of return (IRR)—the […] -
The Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Private equity Magazine ArticleWhy “buying to sell” can generate a much higher return on investment than the public company practice of “buying to keep” -
Private Equity Needs a New Talent Strategy
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHigher interest rates and competition have changed the nature of the business. Now the industry must find a new approach to developing leaders.
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The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for Elcer Products Division President
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial, U.S.,... -
Sustainable Investing in Ambienta (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case study tells the story of Ambienta, an Italy-based asset management company that was an early entrant in the field of sustainable investing.... -
H Partners and Six Flags
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant... -
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually... -
DuPont Corporation: Sale of Performance Coatings
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In January 2012, Ellen Kullman, CEO and chairman of DuPont, must decide whether to retain or sell the company's Performance Coatings (DPC) division. This... -
Lululemon Athletica: Pitching an IPO
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The managing director at a major investment bank is preparing his team for a visit to Lululemon Athletica. The investment bank has been following Lululemon's... -
Impactful Investments and Exits: Angeleno Group and GT Solar
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Angeleno Group, a clean energy private equity firm co-founded by Yaniv Tepper, is assessing a potential exit from a major acquisition in the solar power... -
VCPE Strategy Vignettes
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners... -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for US Industrial ElectroCeramics (US-IND)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial,... -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for Euro Elektrische Keramische Vorrichtungen (Euro EKV), GmbH
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial,... -
KKR: Leveraging Sustainability
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes KKR's Green Portfolio Program, one of the firm's environmental initiatives, which has achieved $160 million in cost savings. While... -
The Chosen One: The Digital Distribution Dilemma at Fitz Games
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2019, an entrepreneur and Ivey Business School graduate was facing a critical decision regarding how best to maximize the growth of his new product,... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View 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... -
Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil ("Hidrovias"), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products... -
Ramcides: Growing Pains for a Family-Run Business in an Emerging Market
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details During the Holi festival in March 2012, the managing director of Ramcides, a family-run agrochemical business, was considering the path of the company... -
Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use
Strategy & Execution Book32.00View Details Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to... -
Durian Capital Inc.: Assignment (Master Programmes)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details The case shows how concepts from operations management can be applied to a service setting (as opposed to manufacturing). With private equity as the setting,... -
Bluewater Capital and ENI Partners
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In March 2009, Ricard Thomas - managing director at Bluewater Capital, a European-based alternative asset management company focused on private equity... -
HOW COVID-19 TESTS ENTREPRENEURS' AGILITY (B): MOBILIZING THROUGH THE CRISIS
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case B describes Tatulova's actions in response to the crisis. This included a meeting with President Putin to discuss the situation of small businesses.... -
UCK Partners: Gong Cha
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In the Spring of 2017, Soomin Kim, Founding Partner of Unison Capital Korea, and his team were debating the potential exit of Unison Capital Korea's investment...
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How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity 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 a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Turbocharging Asian Turnarounds
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity investors in Asia are fine-tuning the art of the turnaround using three principal strategies. -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
Harvard Business Review, May/June 2022
Leadership & Managing People Magazine Issue19.95View Details Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives,... -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for Elcer Products Division President
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial, U.S.,... -
Sustainable Investing in Ambienta (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case study tells the story of Ambienta, an Italy-based asset management company that was an early entrant in the field of sustainable investing.... -
H Partners and Six Flags
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant... -
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually... -
DuPont Corporation: Sale of Performance Coatings
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In January 2012, Ellen Kullman, CEO and chairman of DuPont, must decide whether to retain or sell the company's Performance Coatings (DPC) division. This... -
Harvard Business Review, July/August 2022
Leadership & Managing People Magazine Issue19.95View Details Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives,...