How Can PE Lessons Apply to You?
Many smart companies—their top executives and their boards—are reviewing the PE case and asking a key question: what would we do differently if we had a PE mind-set?
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, CEO of Nestlé, asked this question when he took the company’s helm in 1997. While he saw stark differences between his company’s aim to nurture, grow, and renew products over decades versus a PE firm’s aim to buy a mature business, boost operational value, and sell, he nonetheless found many applications of PE disciplines and has ridden them to one of the most consistent, long-term track records in his sector. Compared to other large, diversified food companies—the pool in which Nestlé competes—the Swiss food and beverage maker ...
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