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...seeing companies across a wide variety of sectors that are struggling," says Sam Rovit, who heads up Bain Corporate Renewal, the optimistically named restructuring division of Bain & Company. If the credit squeeze doesn't loosen up quickly, he expects a "tidal wave of bankruptcies among large companies...
...There are many examples of great partnerships where university endowments have invested, such as Sequoia Capital, a venture firm, and Bain Capital, a buyout firm...
...apparently the limit when media conglomerate NBC Universal, along with private equity firms Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group, agreed on Sunday to pay the enormous $3.5 billion price tag for The Weather Channel. Available in some 96 million American homes, the Weather Channel is the country's third most widely distributed cable channel. It also runs the 14th most popular site on the web, weather.com. But observers are already questioning whether NBC, which is owned by General Electric, overpaid for the property. NBC, after all, only paid $1.25 billion for the cable channel Bravo in 2002, while CBS acquired...
Although $3.5 billion is a huge sum, NBC will foot only a fraction of the total bill. The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and NBC will reportedly pay just $600 million each upfront, and finance the balance. The Weather Channel's estimated $175 million annual earnings should help defray the debt...
When calculating the entrepreneurial risk involved, people often get the math wrong. Take starting a business, for example. Some might say Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, took a huge risk when he left a successful career at Bain & Co. to help start the company. But Cook figured otherwise. "The worst thing that could happen to me is that I would spend a few years paying off credit-card debt. To me, it looked like a risk-free decision," he said...