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April 23, 2013
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
By investigating past successes and failures, private equity firms can lay a strong foundation for future funds, investments and performance. A probing dissection of nearly 100 of its past deals helped one major global private equity firm define its deal “sweet spot” and mobilize its resources and
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April 22, 2013
| Press release
NEARLY SIXTY PERCENT OF EXECUTIVES SAY ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING IN THEIR INDUSTRY, BUT MAJORITY VERY CONCERNED ABOUT MEETING EARNINGS TARGETS IN 2013, FINDS BAIN & COMPANY
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April 18, 2013
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
Private equity funds are feeling the heat to sell aging portfolio holdings and return capital to their limited partners. And they may soon get that opportunity amid unmistakable signs that exit opportunities finally appear to be moving into higher gear.
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April 17, 2013
| Utilities and Alternative Energy | Bain Brief
Distributed energy holds the promise of delivering efficient, reliable and, in many cases, renewable energy to customers around the world. As a result, customers will draw less power from the central grid and may unplug altogether. The sooner utilities identify the opportunities inherent in this
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April 17, 2013
| Talent Management & Leadership Supply | Bain Brief
With top talent in short supply throughout much of the world, employee attitudes about sustainable business practices are compelling more companies to take this issue seriously, yielding benefits to those firms that take action. A recent Bain survey shows that employees view their companies’
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April 16, 2013
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
There is a hint of something new and unfamiliar in the air on the fund-raising front this year. It’s a scent of optimism, and it’s coming from private equity limited partners that are giving off signals that they may be ready to increase new PE commitments enough to jolt fund-raising out of the
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April 12, 2013
| Mergers & Acquisitions | Bangkok Post
M&A can deliver great value if well-conceived and properly executed. We've found that M&A winners build a capability for repeatable success that includes five elements.
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April 11, 2013
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
Private equity investors are bracing for the familiar combustible effects that invariably follow when a plentiful supply of dry powder mixes with record levels of available debt: hot competition to land deals and higher acquisition prices. But as we describe in Bain & Company’s Global Private
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April 09, 2013
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
Prospects for private equity investment activity in 2013 look better than they have since the global financial crisis. But a major breakout in PE deal making hinges on a comeback of the public-to-private deals that dominated PE’s last cyclical peak and have been so notably absent since then.
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April 05, 2013
| Insurance | Latam Insurance Review
High-performing property and casualty insurers are using advanced analytics to improve decisions in five areas.
