KKR
Companiesprivate-equity
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the firm that made the leveraged buyout an industry and then survived its own signature deal.
8 books · 1 people behind it
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- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR NabiscoBryan Burrough, John Helyar, 1989
- Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American BusinessGeorge Anders, 1992
- Private Equity at WorkEileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, 2014
The people behind it 1
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Journalists 1
Books 8
Connie Bruck · 1988 · Drexel's junk-bond machine, the financing KKR's whole model depended on.
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar · 1989 · KKR's defining deal, told from all sides.
George Anders · 1992 · The best firm-level account of the buyout method.
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt · 2014 · Evidence-based account of what buyouts do to portfolio companies.
George P. Baker, George David Smith · 1998 · Academic and broadly favorable.
Sachin Khajuria · 2022 · Practitioner insider on how a modern buyout firm actually earns.
T3 Plunder
Brendan Ballou · 2023 · The prosecutorial case against the industry KKR created; read as counterweight.