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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... -
The CEO of New Mountain Capital on Using PE Management to Ignite Growth
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTwelve years ago, in 2010, the private equity firm New Mountain Capital acquired a little-known Wisconsin software company, RedPrairie, for $565 million.... -
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAs the dust settles on the recent frenzy of private equity deals (including transactions topping $20 billion), what lessons can companies glean? Directors... -
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 & Accounting Digital ArticleThey don't use the financial tools they learned in B-school. -
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. -
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,... -
Turbocharging Asian Turnarounds
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity investors in Asia are fine-tuning the art of the turnaround using three principal strategies. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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. -
Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite their reputation in the 1980s as corporate raiders, most private equity firms attempt to improve the performance of their portfolio companies... -
To Make Deals in the Middle Market, Private Equity Needs Cultural Literacy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDoing business starts with building mutual trust and respect. -
How Private Equity Firms Hire CEOs
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleThey do it a lot and have learned what to look for. -
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... -
Managing Shareholders in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleHow to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans. -
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 […]
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Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
TruthCRM Competitive Auction in Mergers and Acquisitions: Instructions for Tank Software Team
Management Case Study8.95View Details The TruthCRM case provides students with an interactive simulation of the competitive auction process to maximize value for a company involved in an acquisition.... -
Palamon Capital Partners/TeamSystem S.p.A
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 2000, a managing partner of a U.K.-based private equity fund, Palamon Capital Partners, faced the decision of whether to invest in an Italian... -
Maytag: Takeover Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On April 22, 2005, Maytag Corporation's stock price fell 28 percent after the company reported disappointing first-quarter results and significantly reduced... -
Slalom to the Finish: Carlyle's Exit from Moncler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Carlyle is considering an exit from its investment in the European fashion brand Moncler, in which it holds a minority stake. The case focuses... -
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.... -
Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global... -
TruthCRM Competitive Auction in Mergers and Acquisitions: Instructions for High Flyer Team
Management Case Study8.95View Details The TruthCRM case provides students with an interactive simulation of the competitive auction process to maximize value for a company involved in an acquisition.... -
Intersectionality
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details A gifted project leader lacks significant new product development experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project... -
Lind Equipment
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after it was acquired. While the senior... -
Unigrains
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector for decades and,... -
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice at 40
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2018, private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice celebrated its 40th anniversary and its 20th year under the leadership of CEO Don Gogel. In those... -
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... -
HCA, Inc. (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Evanston Capital Management
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GENICON: Keep Growing or Sell the Company?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The chief executive officer (CEO) of GENICON is at a crossroads. The private medical device manufacturing business he started over 15 years ago has several... -
New Enterprise Associates in India: The Agile International Venture Capital Firm
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A swelling current account deficit, ballooning interest rates, and a plunging currency: These were just some of the worrisome trends in India that Krishna... -
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... -
Dollar General Going Private
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The 'Dollar General Going Private' case is intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of financial statement analysis. The context...
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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... -
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 216055. James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring... -
TruthCRM Competitive Auction in Mergers and Acquisitions: Instructions for Tank Software Team
Management Case Study8.95View Details The TruthCRM case provides students with an interactive simulation of the competitive auction process to maximize value for a company involved in an acquisition.... -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 821074. -
Palamon Capital Partners/TeamSystem S.p.A
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 2000, a managing partner of a U.K.-based private equity fund, Palamon Capital Partners, faced the decision of whether to invest in an Italian... -
Maytag: Takeover Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On April 22, 2005, Maytag Corporation's stock price fell 28 percent after the company reported disappointing first-quarter results and significantly reduced... -
Wildcat Capital Investors: Real Estate Private Equity, Instructor Solution Q2a
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstructor spreadsheet for case KEL553. -
Slalom to the Finish: Carlyle's Exit from Moncler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Carlyle is considering an exit from its investment in the European fashion brand Moncler, in which it holds a minority stake. The case focuses... -
Hidrovias do Brasil: Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives, Video Short
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleVideo supplement to case 419007.