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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. Private equity deal teams and the advisors they hire are well known for their expertise in gathering masses of data, crunching numbers, and measuring financial performance to predict future returns.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”