Conglomerates Education Public Companies 
The Motley Fool
JANUARY 29, 2024
Do you think this company is an attractive buyout candidate? If I was a media entertainment conglomerate, I would certainly be interested in Marvel. Now, Deborah Meyer is an educator. She's gone on to write and think a lot about education, but I pulled her framework from education, out of education.
The Big Picture
JANUARY 24, 2023
And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.
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The Big Picture
APRIL 18, 2023
BARATTA: The media conglomerate? BARATTA: They had bought a bunch of educational publishing assets, including U.S. textbook company, Houghton Mifflin, back when there were actually textbooks in schools. And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. RITHOLTZ: Sure.
The Motley Fool
OCTOBER 14, 2024
As I mentioned earlier, I've got those four fellow Fools cued up, looking forward to sharing their stories for some education, amusement, and enrichment. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. I'll tell a fifth at the end. Haven't seen it.
The Big Picture
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
COHAN: I was doing something I probably should never have been allowed to do, which was write about public education in Wake County, which was fine. And no one had ever done that, I had to get special permission from the Board of Education in Brooklyn back when they still do that. You start writing for the Raleigh Times.
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