The New Operating Reality The PE landscape has shifted. With deals cooling and valuations under pressure, Bain has echoed our belief that generating returns now “comes down to actually improving the performance of portfolio companies,” not just financial engineering. In this new era of higher financing costs and investor demands, winning firms are revamping their […]

How can PE Firms drive outsized returns when there have never been more competitors chasing the same number of deals? Traditionally, private equity firms used the due diligence phase to explore insights, risk mitigation, and the identification of growth prospects and had several months to dig into a company while using the financials as the […]

“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” While most Executive Recruiters don’t advertise this mantra, this is unfortunately industry standard when it comes to candidates. Why wouldn’t executive recruiters want to hear from top decile candidates? It is simple. Their clients are the companies they are recruiting for – not the candidates themselves. Their job is not […]