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Private-Equity players such as Cerberus Capital Management and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have scored some of the biggest buyouts ever in recent months, including TXU, First Data Corp. and Chrysler. But are these cash-heavy private-equity (PE) firms racing against time? They need to win and ink future deals before the leveraged-buyout (LBO) window slams shut--a scenario Wall Street experts are betting will happen sooner rather than later...
...shares in Fortress Investment Group, a firm that specializes in hedge funds, are down 28% since the close of trading on their February 9 debut. Granted, that's a short-term, backward-looking view?never the best way to size up a potential investment. Yet as other shops like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Carlyle Group, Apollo Group, and British hedge fund manager GLG Partners toy with listing public shares, it's worth taking a critical look at the broader, ongoing forces impacting these stocks...
Most markedly, he expanded the office’s staff of PhDs who evaluate and license researchers’ discoveries. And Kohlberg himself has become a visible presence in Harvard’s most cutting-edge labs...
...Kohlberg] looked through all of my patents, and was well informed about the intellectual property I had,” says Given Professor of Immunology Laurie Glimcher ’72, who is listed as a lead inventor on more than a dozen patents since 1998. “That was a refreshing change...
...Kohlberg says his office “sit[s] on the crossroads of two cultures...the business culture and the academic culture...