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Sullivan: Parachuting former Fortune 500 CEOs into small buyout boards fails
“I think one thing we learned pretty quickly was not straightforward to bring in a guy who'd been a successful CEO at a big Fortune 500 company and have him parachute into an LBO situation as a board member or operating partner. You had to find people with the …”
Morfit: Shifting software capital allocation beats fixing industrial manufacturing costs
“It's easy to get a company to shift its allocations away from making Windows phones to focusing on Office three 65. Then the one we took on at Rolls Royce, which was how do we engineer your engines to have a lower cost of goods than what they currently have an…”
Elite operators are domain specialists, not generalist corporate managers
“Many of these folks have lived in their world their whole life, and they just know it inside and out. If you ask them to run another business, they're not Six Sigma GE trained people who can go from light bulbs to jet engines. They don't want to. They're in th…”
CPPIB Retains Majority Ownership of Antares Capital Acquired From GE
“We have the Antares platform within our credit investments, and this was acquisition from GE about 10 years ago, and that fit right in where we are the majority owner of it, where we had a real understanding of the market, and it's very synergistic with our in…”
Mauboussin: GM and GE remain top 20 lifetime wealth creators
“For example, you think about the leaderboard, the top 20 greatest wealth creators of all times, and it would include some suspects you would guess, which would be Apple and Microsoft and Amazon and Alphabet and so forth, but it also includes things you might n…”