Private Equity: Transforming Public Stock Into Private Equity to Create Value

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Praise for Private Equity

"Harold Bierman has blended an excellent mix of important principles with real case study examples for a better understanding on a rather sophisticated finance subject."
-Edward M. Dudley, Vice President & General Auditor, ABB Americas

"The role of private equity firms in financing buyouts as well as providing growth capital has expanded significantly in the past decade. In a clear, concise way, Harold Bierman provides a timely and astute analysis of the virtues of private equity as well as creative quantitative methodologies that are applicable to real-life transactions. This book should become essential reading for investors, intermediaries, financial advisors and the management of private, almost private, or soon-to-be private firms."
-James A. Rowan Jr., Managing Director, Investment Banking
Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.

"As the private equity asset class has grown to over $300 billion in the last three years, Bierman analyzes the fundamentals behind the investment decisions of this increasingly important sector. Once completing the book, you will understand the fundamental analytical framework underlying private equity investment."
-Peter Nolan, Partner, Leonard Green and Partners

"In looking at the private equity arena, Professor Bierman has brought together a diverse group of metrics and valuation formulas into a single text. The book provides a valuable combination of academic theory and real-life case studies. It provides many insights."
-Peter H. Vogel, Vice President, MeadWestvaco Corporation

Customer Reviews:

Unhelpful book on private equity.......2005-02-22

I bought this book hoping that it would, through a good mix of principles and case studies, help me understand the private equity industry betther. The book does not live up to these expectations.

First, it is written badly, and seems more a series of preliminary notes than a well thought out book. Discussions are short and often repetitive. The analytics are extremely simplistic and are essentially a regurgitation of elementary finance theory (things like valuing a company with a fixed dividend growth rate). There is very little in them that is specific to private equity.

The book gives the reader absolutely no sense of what makes private equity different from other forms of finance, or the history and prospects of the industry. A quick review of the bibliography suggests that most of what the author has to say is already outdated and irrelevant.

I haven't the heart to sells my (wothless) copy: I wouldn't want someone else to waste his or her time with it (let alone his/her money)! A much better book is Venture Capital & Private Equity by Lerner and Hardymon.

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NonfictionLarge Print EditionTwins Maye Smith and Faye Hudson tell the story of their remarkable, inspiring success . . . from bank tellers to bank presidents to millionaires.They shared everything life had to offer. Having conquered all the lessons and nearing retirement, the pair decided to try one more thing: to take their bank public. They offered stock to depositors who bought all the available shares. Soon after, the largest bank in the state offered them $17.5 million for their savings and loan. This is a unique treasury of American life and of an American Dream come true. Maye Smith and Faye Hudson are the former president and vice-president of the Point Pleasant (West Virginia) Federal Savings Bank.

Maye and Faye's Building & Loan: The Story of a Remarkable Sisterhood

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Maye and Faye's Building & Loan: The Story of a Remarkable Sisterhood
Maye Smith , Faye Hudson , and Leslie Whitaker
Manufacturer: Harper Audio
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Current Legal Problems has been produced by the Faculty of Laws of University College London for forty years. This year publication moved to Oxford University Press. The Review (1992, Volume 45, Part I) was published in May of this 1992. Part II contains the texts of the Current Legal
Problems lecture series and a number of other seminar papers presented at University College London. Contributors include Jack Beatson, Donald Harris, Hugh Collins, Peter Birks, Sir Sydney Lipworth, Dan Goyder, Laurence Lustgarten, Richard Susskind, Gavin Drewry, John R. Spencer, The Rt. Hon Lord
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The book deals with selected modern aspects of artificially layered structures and bulk materials involving antiferromagnetic long-range order. Special emphasis is laid on the prototypical behavior of Ising-type model systems. They play a crucial role in the field of statistical physics and, in addition, contribute to the basic understanding of the exchange bias phenomenon in MBE-grown magnetic heterosystems. Throughout the book, particular attention is given to the interplay between experimental results and their theoretical description, ranging from the famous Lee-Yang theory of phase transitions to novel mechanisms of exchange bias.

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Meet Finkie Finkelstein: businessman from New Jersey, lovingly obsessed fan of Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. To Finkie, Frank is the model of a man -- elegant, sophisticated, talented, with charm to spare. Finkie has modeled his life after his idol; he's seen all the movies, bought all of the records, even formed his own little Rat Pack at work. All his life decisions are made with Frank in mind. Now if only he could let Frank know how much he means to him...

Through a series of letters to his idol, Finkie's life unfolds; a life where Sinatra is center stage, while all the rest takes a backseat. In Sinatraland, Finkie's trials are numerous: a failing marriage, a strained relationship with both his daughter and his brother, an ill-fated affair with an office coworker. But as long as Frank comes out with a new record or film, there's always hope.

By turns riotous and poignant, Sinatraland lays bare the funniest and most twisted corners of the male mind and brings back to life America's most beloved bad boy. Sinatraland introduces Sam Kashner as a sparkling new voice in literary fiction.

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Oh, You Crazy Moon.......2007-06-18

This thing we have with celebrities is strange, and this book chronicles the illusion that we know these people in some intimate way.

Actually I'm a little like Finkie (the narrator) myself. I grew up with rock and roll, but fell into Sinatraland the same spring and summer The Beatles came. I waited longingly for new Sinatra albums, movies, and concerts, and something about the man and his music just enthralled me.

I should add, however, that I grew to feel almost as loyal to Jimmy Webb, Randy Newman, Brian Wilson, George Harrison, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, Mozart, Listz, and others. I admire great writers, great singers, and great music.

STILL, there is something about Sinatra, something so intimate about his delivery, that I feel I knew him, or at least that he knew me, or perhaps, ultimately, that he knew the human soul better than almost anyone.

Sounds stupid, especially to my mother, who grew up with Der Bingle. But there it is.

Sinatraland.......2000-03-21

This is the work of a gifted poet and social satirist. Sinatraland is brilliantly funny, with a delicious sense of the absurd, and at the same time imbued with poignant insight into human foibles. The author has keenly observed pop culture of the sixties, for some of us, our parents' generation, epitomized by Frank Sinatra. You don't have to love Sinatra to appreciate this book. Actually, you might be better off if you're not a fan unless you're prepared to see your idol ever so gently and affectionately tarnished. Sinatra isn't really the subject of this book, after all.....

political and/or mob connections.......1999-07-13

a good read; well researched. A strong inference that the great singer and arbiter of public taste hadd mob connections and a strong inference is gained that Frank was connected in some way with JFK's assasination! A fascinating cultural scouring written in epistolary style that grabbed me.

A delightful story about a real guy.......1999-06-25

This life story in the form of letters to Frank Sinatra evokes a whole era and way of life--it reads true and the characters are flawed but loveable. I feel I could be reading about my own relatives.

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When the Romans first fought against Caledonii during the reign of Agricola (AD 77-84), Agricola established a frontier along the Gask Ridge. He also consolidated the Forth-Clyde isthmus, the location at which the Romans would later build the Antonine Wall from AD 138 to 143. The following 100 years saw a cycle of advance into and retreat from Scotland, until the Romans abandoned the Antonine Wall completely. This book examines the Flavian, Antonine and Severan conquests of Scotland and the fortifications along Rome's northern frontier, and it explores the archaeological remains and places them in historical context.

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Only a dupe could review this book negatively.......2004-07-23

Fantastic book, nearly ever essay a clear and brillant piece attacking superstition and blatant pseudoscience

Disappointing.......2004-03-27

The positive emphasis of this compilation - that any and all claims are best meticulously and exactingly examined in an organized manner - is disappointingly marred by Martin Gardner's shallow knowledge and research of the topics he seeks to debunk.

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Africa is perceived by many as backward, war-torn, starvation-riddled, and mysterious. While problems abound, the continent also houses extraordinary resources, which, if wisely managed, can provide food, minerals, and many other essentials of economic growth, and social and political stability. This collection of essays highlights problems and opportunities surrounding natural resource management in Africa and describes some of the more promising strategies for improvement. Covering environmental planning, forests and farms, the roles of civil and public society, and information development and use, it is aimed at researchers, policy makers and analysts, resource managers, academics, and funders and investors already familiar with African issues. A twenty page appendix of maps, data, and indicators in easy-to-read form provides a quick guide to each country's natural-resource conditions and trends.

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This practical book introduces strategic management for senior managers in schools. The author shows how it can contribute to school development; explores the leadership of strategic school improvement, and presents a strategic planning model for schools. At each stage, he deals with practice and shows how this involves the organization of the whole process and the stages of analysis, choice and implementation.

Written at a very accessible and practical level, the book focuses on:

- how to generate ideas,

- communication and managing change,

- how to organize staff to work together on strategic planning.

Numerous activities are also included, designed to facilitate staff discussion of strategic analysis and strategic choice

This book is essential for head teachers, deputy heads, and local authority professionals.

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Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance/30th Anniversary Edition
J.M. Juran
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFN85A

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Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers--Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Becon, Lever, and Thomas Smith, as well as the better-known More and Fortescue--laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of the state in response to social, economic and political conditions of England. Wood's innovative study of these early Tudor thinkers, who upheld the status quo yet condemned widespread poverty and suffering, will interest historians, political scientists, and social and political theorists.

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This course was developed to provide employees, managers, and executives with the fundamental business aspects of publishing, marketing, gathering, and researching information via the Internet. This course focuses on the World Wide Web and e-mail and provides current statistics regarding business and consumer use of the Internet.

Using the Internet in Business focuses on the following topics:
Reality, myth, and misperceptions of the Internet
Importance of an Internet Business Strategy
Organizational approach to accessing the Internet
Communications and messaging
Internet-based research
Business netiquette
Developing an Acceptable Use Policy
Text-based messaging options
Security risks and solutions
E-commerce

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Using the Internet in business: Cutting costs & attracting customer in cyberspace (DDC one-day course)
Curt Robbins
Manufacturer: DDC Pub
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Exciting stuff!!.......2002-03-22

If you are looking to understand the value of business process simulation from an executive stand-point, this is a great book.

Profozich explains through examples and case studies how simulation can help companies make better business decisions and managage necessary changes in their operating environment.

All business environments operate within areas of uncertainty. This book explains how simulation technology can help business managers understand and use this uncertainty to their advantage.

Business simulation can support business managers across all functions of the enterprise and help create value in a number of ways. Unfortunately businesses are not taking advantage of this great technology. Profozich has managed to demystify the myth around the complexities of computer simulation and he explains the value proposition and approach in a very compelling way.

SOLID REVIEW AND ANALYSIS.......2000-02-19

For the senior manager looking to learn more about simulation, Managing Change provides a thorough introduction and review. It is well written and concise and lacks the turgid prose that is found in more academically oriented books on this subject.

The author not only describes the theoretical foundations of this technology, he also ties it together by describing many real world applications and case studies. This is one of the few technically opriented books I have found that also deals with the financial implications of software implementation and cost justification.

If there is any weakness, it is that the athor did not spend as much time as may have been needed discussing execution and implementation issues with simulation.

The author has clearly built a bridge between the scientific classroom and the application of simulation to solving complex business problems. For the senior manager interested in learning more about simulation, this is a strong review and introduction.

A Waste of Money.......1999-12-23

Apparently in the interest of keeping things simple, Profozich trivializes the subject. There is not enough here for any reasonably responsible manager to evaluate the premise that simulations are effective ways to manage change (a premise with which I agree.) If you enjoy reading marketing material or going to motivational seminars this book may be what you are looking for. Otherwise, skip it.

Managing Change with Business Process Simulation.(Review): An article from: Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Managing Change with Business Process Simulation.(Review): An article from: Journal of Consumer Affairs
Hoe Siu Loon
Manufacturer: American Council on Consumer Interests
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Consumer Affairs, published by American Council on Consumer Interests on June 22, 1999. The length of the article is 875 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Managing Change with Business Process Simulation.(Review)
Author: Hoe Siu Loon
Publication: Journal of Consumer Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1999
Publisher: American Council on Consumer Interests
Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Page: 215

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Describes the role of information sytems in business. Internal organization of the information systems department, and current information systems technology and theory are explored, but the emphasis is on real-life management issues. Casebook available.

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Wonderful book!.......2001-01-30

This book is realy great! It help me to understand the basics on how to manage an Information System Area. I really recommend this book.

Wysocki: Teachers Manual & Transparencies to Accompany Information Systems: Management Principles in Action (Manual)

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Wysocki: Teachers Manual & Transparencies to Accompany Information Systems: Management Principles in Action (Manual)
Wysocki
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Design principles for competence management systems: a synthesis of an action research study (1).(Special Issue): An article from: MIS Quarterly

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Design principles for competence management systems: a synthesis of an action research study (1).(Special Issue): An article from: MIS Quarterly
Rikard Lindgren , Ola Henfridsson , and Ulrike Schultze
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from MIS Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 18659 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Design principles for competence management systems: a synthesis of an action research study (1).(Special Issue)
Author: Rikard Lindgren
Publication: MIS Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
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Volume: 28 Issue: 3 Page: 435(38)

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