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The Private Equity Exit Now Takes Twice as Long

Twenty times larger in twenty-five years. That is what has happened to assets under management in private equity, and investing in the asset class has become much more common for a wide range of investors. The past three or four years slowed the pace. Guillaume Vuillemey, Associate Professor at HEC Paris and academic director of the Executive MSc in Finance, puts that down to interest rates. The long-term trend has held. 
 

  • “Success Tells You Something. Failure Tells You Too Many Things”. Vincent Fraitot on AI Transformation

    By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the value expected of them. For Vincent Fraitot, those failures explain very little: it is the successes that are readable, and what they reveal goes well beyond technology. The HEC Paris professor on what it takes to scale an AI transformation.  

     

  • Purpose Has No Effect on Performance Until You Do This

    Companies rush to define their purpose, sure it will fire up their teams and lift results. Rodolphe Durand has spent ten years checking whether that was true. Few people are better placed to know: he holds the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris, runs its Purpose Center, and has spent over a decade on the boards of listed, private, and non-profit organisations - watching purpose decisions get made from the inside.  

     

  • How Radisha Silva broke her own ceiling

    Trust gets you in the room. It does not make you indispensable once the room gets more technical than you are. Radisha Silva, VP at J.P. Morgan in Geneva, saw that gap coming and went back to school to close it.