Founders, Private Equity
Second article in series for Harvard Business Review. Founder-led companies hold immense potential for growth in private equity–backed environments. Given the attractive upside, private equity firms are increasingly doing deals involving founder-led companies.
Founders, Private Equity
First article in series for Harvard Business Review. Founders are a unique breed—visionaries who transform ideas into thriving businesses, but often bring complexity when scaling alongside investors. To better understand what sets them apart, we launched an in-depth study of “founder DNA,” analyzing over 1,400 data points and conducting interviews across the private equity landscape. The result offers fresh insights into how investors and boards can unlock the potential of founder-led companies.
Boards, CEO and C-suite Succession
Disney, Starbucks, P&G, Microsoft, GE, Ford, Twitter, Dell, Nike, and scores of other marquee companies in their prime have stumbled painfully in CEO transitions.
CEO Advisory, Executive Development & Coaching
Most leaders are, deep down, afraid of failure. But a 10-year study of over 2,600 leaders showed almost half (45%) suffered at least one major career blow-up — like getting fired, messing up a major deal, or blowing an acquisition.
Boards, CEO and C-suite Succession
As the public debates the merits of the recent corporate tax cuts, most people are dangerously oblivious to a bigger and in the long run costlier problem: that of picking the wrong CEOs to lead companies in the first place.
