Sobre Kara
Experiência
Kara Murphy is a partner in Bain & Company's Boston office. She has worked at Bain since 2000.
She is a member of Bain's Private Equity and Healthcare practices and co-leads the firm's healthcare private equity team.
Kara has led more than 175 healthcare private equity diligences and has worked extensively with private-equity backed portfolio companies. Her private equity work spans the healthcare value chain of med tech, pharma, providers, payers, services and IT.
Kara also has worked with corporate clients across the healthcare value chain on issues ranging from M&A to growth strategy to performance improvement.
Kara earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. She is also a graduate of Tufts University, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics.
Kara Murphy discusses how private equity and corporate investors can evaluate business opportunities and risks that these trends create.
Recent Insights
- “Welcome Letter: Sizing Up the Great Adaptation,” Report, março 16, 2022
- “Healthcare Private Equity Market 2021: The Year in Review ,” Report, março 16, 2022
- “Covid-19 Fallout: Investing to Handle Pandemics Present and Future,” Report, março 16, 2022
- “Now Playing: The Return of the Healthcare Megadeal,” Report, março 16, 2022
- “Growth Equity Blossoms in Emerging Tech-Related Healthcare Firms ,” Report, março 15, 2022
In the News
- “Megadeals are here to stay, and they’re redefining the healthcare landscape,” Press release, março 15, 2022
- “Healthcare private equity buyouts posted record-setting volumes in 2020 after a year of unprecedented upheaval for global healthcare,” Press release, março 16, 2021
- “HCIT M&A in the wake of COVID-19; Blackstone goes shopping,” PE Hub, março 12, 2020, Healthcare
- “Column: Bain's Kara Murphy on the Amazon Effect, provider deal flow ,” Buyouts, abril 18, 2018, Healthcare
- “Early Move Into Behavioral Health Leads to 12-Times Return for Waud,” WSJ Pro, março 27, 2018, Private Equity