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Everything is important. Without hedge funds who buys the overpriced martinis. Huh paul . Ever think of that .with your ball bearings. The balls on this one
An obvious issue is that the rate of potential new CEOs graduating from Harvard business school every year is pretty consistent. There might be some number of companies that need new CEOs every year, but it's likely to be very "lumpy." There's a big supply/demand mismatch.
Ok but what if the bearing company and the harvard grad actually have really good reasons for disliking one another, and forcing them together is how we get so many "private equity bought this company and ran it into the ground" stories.
Big Ball Bearings shareholders pissed they donโ€™t have the margins of Tech - Private Equity + Consultants swoop in to โ€œfixโ€ this* - now do this for every heavy industry <3 * How is the $64x question
isnt this the piece on Graham Weaver's Alpine Capital? thought it was a good model to recruit talent for the benefit of their less than sexy companies
And hope that ball bearing manufacturing is sufficiently profitable after assets have been stripped, and you need to pay the debt service.
replace Harvard Business school with NBA from any business school and you have a more accurate description of what goes on MBA's destroy more businesses than any other cause worst destroyer in history was Carly Fiorina who ruined both Bell labs and HP. Immelt ruined GE
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