从企业高管到私募股权CEO的转型之路

Not everybody can manage the transition. Here’s what it really takes to succeed. AUTHORS Samantha Dina Wang Partner, ghSmart Heidi Smith Practice leader, Samantha Hellauer Smith Research fellow, Director, ghSmart ghSmart ghSmart ILLUSTRATOR SÉBASTIEN PLASSARD LEADERSHIP became CEOs at PE-backed firms and conducted a dozen interviews with CEOs and investors. In doing so, we iden- tified five capabilities that are consistent predictors of suc- cess, each of which we’ll discuss in this article. OR YEARS A COMMON assumption has guided hiring decisions across private equity: When in doubt about whom to hire to run a portfolio com- pany, choose somebody who’s been the CEO of a PE-backed venture before. But times are changing. …