Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies. How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use. Bain chairman Orit Gadiesh and partner Hugh MacArthur use the concise, actionable format of a memo to lay out the five disciplines that PE firms use to attain their edge:· Invest with a thesis using a specific, appropriate 3-5-year goal· Create a blueprint for change–a road map for initiatives that will generate the most value for your company within that time frame· Measure only what matters–such as cash, key market intelligence, and critical operating data· Hire, motivate, and retain hungry managers–people who think like owners· Make equity sweat–by making cash scarce, and forcing managers to redeploy underperforming capital in productive directionsThis is the PE formulate for unleashing a company's true potential.
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Ray, a 17-year-old social outcast, is kidnapped by a charismatic, violent stranger. But instead of becoming his latest victim, Ray and his captor, Shepard, form a teacher/student relationship based on vengeance and pain. As the body count of his tormentors begins to rise, Ray realizes he’s trapped in Shepard’s violent world from which there can be no escape.
In a dystopian near-future, American civilization has been decimated by a mysterious nuclear attack, and rumour runs wild that there will soon be another strike, to finish them off. Enter Barack Obama, determined to save America over any obstacle, even if that means that he has to recruit the only person who may have a chance of negotiating a peace treaty, Donald Trump!
Russia, 2042. After the apocalypse. In a country ravaged by deadly spores, eight-year-old Nadja must find a way to survive. Facing danger at every turn, help comes when she meets an unexpected ally.
Brenda Amy Edmonton is a disgraced reporter who finds her world turned upside down when she investigates a wave of disappearances with ties to the occult. Before she knows it, Brenda (B.A.E.) ends up in the middle of an ancient war that might destroy the human race.
Faith Fallon was America’s Sweetheart during the fabulous ‘50s. People believe she died under mysterious circumstances when in fact, she suffered a fate worse than – and in many ways – better than death itself. This is Hollywood Babylon meets Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, a life story like no other.
It is 1784 in the Age of Enlightenment. In the hamlet of Grimsthorpe ancient deadly forces are released. Sebastian Flint and his brother Lucien must solve the mystery of the Devil’s Bell and uncover a dark secret that has laid dormant for a thousand years in the heart of Deepdale Wood.
Volume 2 – Step deeper into the world of the vigilante, HOLLOW GIRL, in this twisted tale of supernatural revenge from Luke Cooper, the creator of A Glimpse of Hell and artist behind Wolf Country and the True Believers Comic Award-winning GoodCopBadCop. Wearing an expressionless white mask, Hollow Girl kills for the dead, a willing vessel for the souls of the wrongfully killed. But now her past has literally come back to haunt her – the ghost of her father manifesting to remind her of the abused child she once was and twist her already damaged mind. With even more horror and brutal action than the first book, this is a must-read for fans of comics like THE CROW, HIT-GIRL or THE PUNISHER.