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In The Know: Inflation’s Impact on Private Equity

As part of an ongoing series, we’re sharing real-time trending topics we are hearing from our 500+ PE fund clients. In our most recent installment, our consulting manager, Keenan Kolinsky, talks about the impacts of inflation he is hearing across our clients. We are hearing this manifest in two primary ways:   A surge in […]

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An Expert Interview with EconTalk Host and Hoover Institution Research Fellow Russ Roberts

Russ Roberts is not your typical economist. As the longtime host of the podcast EconTalk, the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a collection of economics-related books to his name, it would be easy to throw him into a traditional category. But, as the current President of Shalem University in […]

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An Interview Pam Hendrickson from The Riverside Company

Pam Hendrickson is Vice Chair at the Riverside Company and a trailblazer in the world of finance and private equity. Growing up in Manhattan she was surrounded by the world of business. However, as a kid, opportunities in business also felt far away, as finance at the time was a landscape that was largely dominated […]

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How we did it: Pricing strategy expert needed to drive demand for consumer products portco

A PE firm came to us with a critical need for a pricing strategy expert to maximize revenue at one of their consumer products portfolio companies. Since competing against big-box retailers, the portco realized their need to set pricing that clearly conveyed the value of their offerings to their price-conscious and value-driven consumers. We quickly […]

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Video: Dealing With Service Providers at Capacity

As the world begins to rapidly reopen from the pandemic, businesses have begun to run full steam ahead to catch up for lost time. This massive acceleration in business has left many go-to service providers in the PE industry at capacity due to the sudden surge in demand, leaving many firms wondering where to go […]

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Why Diversity is Key to Productivity and Innovation

BluWave has worked with hundreds of companies across a variety of industries ranging from manufacturing and consumer goods to information technology and healthcare. Despite the differences that exist between them, one thing remains constant: for today’s companies, innovation and diversity are inseparable. There is no bigger obstacle to the introduction and refinement of new ideas […]

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How We Did It: Cost Reduction Case Study 

PE funds across a broad spectrum of industries often approach us with specific, episodic needs. Our first step for matching them with best-in-class, third party resources is to understand the nuances and unique challenges they face. When a private equity firm acquired a leading plastics company that designed and manufactured innovative plastic-injection-molded products, the firm believed […]

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Bain’s Global PE Report 2020: High Prices and Higher Stakes

Every year, Bain & Company, one of the leading private equity consulting companies, releases its annual “Global Private Equity Report” to provide context and insights for the current year. While these reports often top 100 pages (which makes them somewhat cumbersome to digest), they are filled to the brim with useful information.

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