According to almost everyone, private equity firms are fundamentally a bad thing, especially if the company you work for happens to be bought by one. And according to the Mail on Sunday yesterday, two of the most famous - Cinven and Apax Partners - are keen to buy RBI (my employer) from current owner Reed [...]

Do you wake up in the night sweating about your workflow solutions strategy? Do you fear inherent cyclicality and long for more cohesive and synergistic times?
I, personally, don’t. But I did wake up yesterday morning in a hotel in Edinburgh to read on my Blackberry that the parent company of the magazine publisher I work for is selling [...]