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The Hard Truth about Operational Excellence with KKR’s Pete Stavros

The global co-head of private equity and partner at KKR reveals the rigorous, long-term discipline required to drive real operational improvements.

  • Published on Haziran 23, 2026

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The Hard Truth about Operational Excellence with KKR’s Pete Stavros
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If you ask Pete Stavros, global co-head of private equity and partner at KKR, how he’s navigating today’s markets, he’ll come right back to the industry’s fundamentals: sourcing proprietary deals and driving real operational improvements. It may sound like what you’d hear from any number of fund managers until he details the mechanics and rigor of KKR’s approach.

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Today on Dry Powder, Pete explains how KKR built one of the most operationally intensive teams in the industry and why he believes this approach is the most repeatable way to generate alpha at scale, regardless of macro conditions.

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