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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g.,

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

To quote the article, “If organizations are ‘systems for getting work done,’ processes provide a fine-grained description of the means.” ” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies.