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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 just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary.

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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. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?