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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 for phase three (buy and transform), financial discipline is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence is not a tool, but a mindset.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster? They were four years older, when compared with benchmark data, before becoming CEO and brought more-diverse functional and industry experience to the position.