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...able to assess it in relatively quick, short time frames." Venture capitalists take big risks, with the hope of even bigger returns, often by dismantling a business, jettisoning what doesn't work, retooling what does and unloading the whole thing at a big profit. Romney's firm Bain Capital started in 1984 with $37 million in assets under management; by the late 1990s, it had billions. One of Romney's biggest achievements was seeing the potential for the office-supply chain Staples in the 1980s, when few could imagine a time businesses wouldn't just get their paper and pens...
...deeper at his other alma matter, Harvard Business School. The Business School’s Michael E. Porter, the Lawrence university professor, gave $2,300 to Romney. Porter is the co-founder of the Monitor Group, a Cambridge-based consulting firm, while Romney formerly led Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney also received $2,300 from Cizik Professor of Business Administration Clayton M. Christensen, a fellow Mormon. Romney has raised significant funds in the Mormon community, taking in $2.9 million from Utah—a state that is 60 percent Mormon and not usually considered a top source...
...senior, a thesis-writer, very grown up with my semi-imaginary boyfriend, and interested in worldly things. Time has transfigured and deepened our relationship. The Ali family grew again, a niece or a granddaughter born in francophone Canada this fall. “Sophia au bain-bain!” a woman wrote, with an unopenable attachment of photographs. “Sophie en rose.” The messages have become more topical, given the conflict in the Arab world and Ali’s abiding relationship with the Zaytuna Institute. After the appearance of the Danish cartoon...
...carefully orchestrated plan to spiff up the brand with an eye toward taking the company public. A year from now, "we'll sit down and say, Is the company at this point geared for a reasonable IPO?," says Carlyle Group co-founder Dan D'Aniello. Carlyle, together with Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, bought Dunkin' Brands from the French beverage giant Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion in March 2006. To make that investment pay off, Dunkin' will have to fend off competitors trying to take a bite out of its core breakfast business while it hopes...
...apparently I don’t take interview scheduling as seriously as everyone else. Having found out I had an interview with Bain & Co. the night I arrived back in Boston, I figured I could sign up for it the next day, maybe after I had a few minutes to pick out classes. My mistake. The following morning, about half a dozen slots—out of 84—were still open, and all but one were...