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...meantime, Harvard continues to increase its presence in the burgeoning LBO market. According to Wall Street sources and Eisenson, the University has been choosing its own buyout deals for about the past five years. And each year, as the endowment has increased, so has the amount of Harvard capital invested in those buyouts...
...Scott says, in the leveraged buyout business "what's unfriendly is a little hard to tell...
That uncertainty about unfriendly takeovers is mirrored in the long-term prognosis for the leveraged buyout trend. While Harvard and other investors may be raking in the profits from LBOs today, economists say they think the buyout market will falter if the economy weakens...
...economic verdict is not clear. Steven P. Galante, managing director of buyout information at Venture Economics--a Boston-based business analysis firm--says, "there were a lot of LBOs in 1980 and 1981 and they went through that recession without any defaults...
...those economic debates, however, may eventually be moot if Congress passes laws hampering the leveraged buyout deals...