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		<title><![CDATA[Mervyns â€“ The cautionary tale of selling oneâ€™s business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/sommer/?p=263]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands     BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:42:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Do Private Equity Firms Underachieve Their Planned ROI?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152739]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper has made the point that private equity firms have a tendency to overplan but under-execute their value-creation activities. Optimists will chalk this up to human nature. Investors who are the customers of private equity firms, however, have aggressive expectations. Any results that are below the targeted ROI will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=146]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM, the worlds largest computer and IT services company, could become an acquisition target for private equity firms said Steve Bengston, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr Bengston was speaking at a recent lunch panel on trends and predictions for 2007 organized by FountainBlue. Also on the panel was Fred Greguras,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:07:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Carlyle Group Cuts Costs, Increases Productivity With E-Mail - Filtering Service]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Carlyle Group is a global, private equity firm with 25 offices and 650 employees. The firm currently has U.S.$39 billion in committed capital, making it one of the largest private equity firms in the world. During the past several years, some of the firm's senior managers had become plagued...]]></description>
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