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Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street (UC Berkeley)

  • 12:00 pm EDT
  • 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Hosted By:
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

The University of California Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment is hosting this colloquium featuring Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic Policy Research and Rosemary Batt, ILR Cornell University

Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The first comprehensive examination of this topic, Private Equity at Work provides a detailed yet accessible guide to this controversial business model. 

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