Private Equity


King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing
Mastering Private Equity: Transformation via Venture Capital, Minority Investments and Buyouts
The Private Equity Playbook: Management’s Guide to Working with Private Equity
The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything (Bloomberg)
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use
The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook
Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, Fourth Edition
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity in Action: Case Studies from Developed and Emerging Markets
CEO-Stories by Michael EastwoodDeath, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeBarbarians at the Gate by Bryan BurroughFinancial Literacy for Beginners by A. J. CameronKing of Capital by David Carey
Private Equity - Must Reads
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“ A merger is not a mere arithmetic addition of balance sheets; it's a profound organizational rebirth or resurrection. For the elite Private Equity firm, an acquisition represents the necessary death of the acquired organizations stagnant paradigm so that a more vital, dominant entity may be born. ...more ”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“ Identity dictates operations; never attempt to restructure the body if you have not first revived the spirit of the organization. ”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework

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