Description

Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. Theyre often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies.

How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use. Bain chairman Orit Gadiesh and partner Hugh MacArthur use the concise, actionable format of a memo to lay out the five disciplines that PE firms use to attain their edge:

Invest with a thesis using a specific, appropriate 3-5-year goal

Create a blueprint for changea road map for initiatives that will generate the most value for your company within that time frame

Measure only what matterssuch as cash, key market intelligence, and critical operating data

Hire, motivate, and retain hungry managerspeople who think like owners

Make equity sweatby making cash scarce, and forcing managers to redeploy underperforming capital in productive directions

This is the PE formulate for unleashing a companys true potential.

Author: Orit Gadiesh, Hugh Mac Arthur
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 01/07/2008
Series: Memo to the CEO
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.58h x 5.27w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781422124956
Language: English