Through their investing experience, PE investors assist their portfolio companies to help them grow, either through internal investments or acquisitions, and depending on the company’s over or underperformance.
Management should understand that the impact they exert also depends on their money at stake and on the specific representative on the board.
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Veroniek Collewaert is a professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Centre for Excellence in Scale-Ups, and Sophie Manigart is a professor of corporate finance and faculty dean, both at Vlerick Business School
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