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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 […] -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
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 […] -
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... -
Does Business Need a New Model?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleCritics charge that in today's heavily traded capital markets, executives are increasingly incentivized to manage in tiny, short-term windows, with an... -
Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?
Mergers and acquisitions 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. -
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? -
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... -
What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy
Finance and investing Digital ArticleThey don’t use the financial tools they learned in B-school. -
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... -
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. -
How to Compete for Talent like a Private Equity Firm
Private equity 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 need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […] -
Why Private Equity Still Makes Us a Little Queasy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhatever its other educational benefits, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has served to introduce legions of hitherto oblivious Americans... -
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 […] -
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 Needs a New Talent Strategy
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleHistorically, the efforts of private equity firms to address leadership challenges have been limited primarily to replacing portfolio-company CEOs. Now,... -
How Private Equity Firms Hire CEOs
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleThey do it a lot and have learned what to look for. -
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...
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Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund: Push and Pull Over GP/LP Compensation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case is designed to explore the structure and rationale behind the standard compensation arrangements in the private equity (PE) industry. It effectively... -
Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A), 714451. -
Bain Capital: Outback Steakhouse
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Bain Capital had purchased Outback Steakhouse in 2007 and despite the myriad initiatives to improve operations, the financial collapse in 2008 threatened... -
Husk Power Systems: Financing Expansion
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Husk Power Systems, a young but widely celebrated firm based in India, needs $1.5 million to $2.5 million of expansion capital to grow quickly beyond... -
Microsoft's IP Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate... -
Valuation Techniques in Private Equity: LBO Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note introduces an "LBO model," the main performance assessment and valuation technique used in private equity industry. -
Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years, and has come into conflict... -
Martin Smith: January 2002
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details An MBA student must choose between offers from three private equity organizations. Each organization has distinct strengths and weaknesses, and different... -
Pan-China Consulting Services: Assessing Future Directions
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In February 2020, Pan-China Consulting Services Co. Ltd. (Pan-China) was entering its third decade in operation. Pan-China's founder was reviewing the... -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for TNDA Corporation
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,... -
Financing Change, Changing Finance: Should Triodos Invest in Tesla?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, Triodos Investment Management had approximately EUR 4.9 billion in assets under its management (impact investment). Triodos motto was "Financing... -
HCA, Inc. (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
The Carlyle Group: IPO of a Publicly Traded Private Equity Firm
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Carlyle Group IPO case explores the circumstances leading up to the firm's IPO in May 2012. Over the past 25 years, Carlyle had grown from a fledgling... -
Sula Vineyards (B): The Entrepreneur's Dilemma - Managing Investor Exits
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding... -
United Capital Partners (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case examines a proposed growth equity investor in a Russian fashion retail chain. -
Cause and Effect: Performance Attribution in Commercial Real Estate
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In April 2015, Shannon Enberg, Managing Director of Real Assets at the United Kingdom Telecom and Technology Pension Scheme (UKTTPS), received a startling... -
Zoots--Financing Growth (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful... -
Growth Investing at Totem Point
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the investment of hedge fund, Totem Point Management in Analog Semiconductors (ADI) as a way to discuss forecasting and valuation in... -
DigiPlex: Ante-Up or Cash Out
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In November 2020, the co-founders of DigiPlex study the future growth trajectory of their Nordic data center venture. A critical question was on the agenda:... -
ACTIS' Pan-Regional Payments Platform: Private Equity Buy-and-build Strategy in the Middle East and Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2010, ACTIS embarked on an ambitious project to build a pan-Middle East and Africa (MEA) payments platform. It had purchased Mediterranean Smart Cards...
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Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund: Push and Pull Over GP/LP Compensation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case is designed to explore the structure and rationale behind the standard compensation arrangements in the private equity (PE) industry. It effectively... -
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 […] -
Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A), 714451. -
Bain Capital: Outback Steakhouse
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Bain Capital had purchased Outback Steakhouse in 2007 and despite the myriad initiatives to improve operations, the financial collapse in 2008 threatened... -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
Husk Power Systems: Financing Expansion
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Husk Power Systems, a young but widely celebrated firm based in India, needs $1.5 million to $2.5 million of expansion capital to grow quickly beyond... -
Microsoft's IP Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate... -
Valuation Techniques in Private Equity: LBO Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note introduces an "LBO model," the main performance assessment and valuation technique used in private equity industry. -
Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years, and has come into conflict... -
Martin Smith: January 2002
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details An MBA student must choose between offers from three private equity organizations. Each organization has distinct strengths and weaknesses, and different...