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Starting in the late 1990s, all the big U.S. players, including Blackstone, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), Carlyle Group and Texas Pacific Group, set up small-scale European operations. They're now bustling, growing rapidly and accounting for ever more of the U.S. groups' business. In four years, Blackstone's investments in Europe have jumped from about 10% to 30% to 40% of its total business, and the firm has opened offices in London, Hamburg and Paris. "It has become quite a significant part of our business," says Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone's CEO and one of its co-founders...
...ntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked a "locust list" naming the alleged pests. These included U.S.-based investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone as well as several German funds, all of which have bought up and restructured German companies in the past two years. In the past the SPD has tried to court the business vote by partially deregulating the labor market and cutting corporate income...
...Elon Kohlberg, Royal Little Professor of Business Administration...
...Kohlberg could not be reached for comment, but he said in a Harvard press release that technology transfer is an “excellent and time-tested means” of advancing science research to “reach fruition...
...University has an obligation not just to conduct research at the highest level but to ensure that that research, where it can, be used to improve the lives and health of the larger community,” Hyman wrote in an e-mail. “In hiring Isaac Kohlberg, we’re seeking to expand our efforts in the area...