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Acknowledgments and sources
Nov 25th 2004
From The Economist print edition


In addition to those quoted in the text, the author would like to thank many others who provided valuable insights, some of them off the record, this being private equity. They include Alex Scott, David Williams, David Bonderman, Sir John Craven, Sir David Cooksey, Baroness Hogg, Ken Olisa, Stuart Mills, Michael Ryan, William McCormack, Newcomb Stillwell, Steve Schwarzman, Kelvin Thompson, Teresa Dereniak, Diana Glassman, Charles Baillie, Christopher Flowers, Tim Collins, Angus Littlejohn, the Board of the Tuck Centre for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, Conor Kehoe, Ray Lane, John Taylor, Venture Economics and the Private Equity Analyst.

Sources

The new kings of capitalism

"Barbarians at the Gate", by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, first published in 1989.

Henry Kravis gave his keynote address at a conference organised by the Private Equity Analyst, a newsletter, in September 2004.

Pick carefully

"Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows", by Steve Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar, University of Chicago Business School working paper, 2004.

"Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment", by David Swensen, Free Press, 2000.

"Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices?: The Limited Partner Performance Puzzle", by Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar and Wan Wong, HBS working paper, 2004.

Beating the mid-life crisis

"The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group", by Dan Briody, John Wiley, 2003.

"Saving the Sun. How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions", by Gillian Tett, HarperBusiness, 2003.

Gut feeling

"Straight from the Gut", by Jack Welch with John Byrne, Warner Business, 2001.

Once burnt, still hopeful

"The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth", by Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School Press, 2001.



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