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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

With the firm’s once-rapid growth having slowed to a crawl, the PE company decided the best course was to sell the firm. However, Hayek didn’t push training on them. From 2008 to 2015 SCA’s revenue rose 88% (from $690 million to $1.3 Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.