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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. However, in phase three traditional data gathering and traditional metrics are not sufficient to ensure significantly differentiated value creation.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?” ” (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.