Includes index.

Method over magic: the drivers behind private-equity performance / Steven N. Kaplan -- Operating profits: using an operating perspective to achieve success / Joseph L. Rice -- Skin in the Game: investing in service businesses / F. Warren Hellman -- The partnership paradigm: working with management to build toward success / Carl D. Thoma -- Beyond the balance sheet: applying private-equity techniques to not-for-profit work / Jeffrey Walker -- The inside game: managing a firm through change after change / John A. Canning -- The entrepreneur and the venture capitalist / Garth Saloner -- Pioneer investing: taking venture capital from Silicon Valley to Bangalore and beyond / William H. Draper -- Change for the better: managing for profit as markets and technology change / C. Richard Kramlich -- Beyond the ivory tower: taking laboratory research to market / Steven Lazarus -- Fostering innovation: people, practices, and products make new markets / Franklin "Pitch" Johnson -- Risk, then reward: managing venture investment in Russia / Patricia M. Cloherty -- Checklist for evaluating investment opportunities / Franklin "Pitch" Johnson -- Guidelines for transforming research into commerce / Steven Lazarus -- What we want in a CEO / Joseph L. Rice -- Portfolio company valuation template / Patricia M. Cloherty -- "Waterfall analysis": the stress test for potential portfolio company / John A. Canning -- Managing director selection criteria / John A. Canning -- Performance metrics for Millennium Villages / Jeffrey Walker -- "Carlisms": key practices for private-equity investors / Carl D. Thoma.

In this title the pioneers of the investment industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in their portfolio companies. It offers advice on subjects such as selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements and much more.

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