His firm has abandoned the private-equity model and now follows a strategy of buy, improve and hold.
And they apply it relentlessly to new opportunities.Many of the world's best-known brands make a cult of simplicity: look at IKEA with its flat packs, McDonald's with its burgers or Berkshire Hathaway with its buy, improve and hold approach to investing.
This study thus demonstrates the paradoxical role of the mobile phone in both improving and holding back people's mobility, but we did not have enough information to determine whether the negative or the positive side was dominant, nor could we draw causal connections between mobile phone use and physical mobility.
China is financing ESL's new vessels, which will have improved cranes and holds for handling more complex cargoes, such as the colossal turbines needed to build Ethiopia's new hydroelectric dams.
In a global study published last week by the University of Exeter and University College London, researchers drew data from more than 96,000 people worldwide and found that ayahuasca is linked to improved wellbeing and holds potential as a treatment for alcoholism and depression.
It enables rights holders to demand equitable access to improved services and hold duty bearers accountable for proving these services.
The bill, which renews the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, seeks to identify troubled schools, help them improve and, ultimately, hold them accountable for persistent failure.
You report that the education bill now being debated in the Senate, among other things, "seeks to identify troubled schools, help them improve and, ultimately, hold them accountable for persistent failure".
The legislation would alter the federal government's role in education by requiring annual testing to gauge a school's progress, helping the most troubled schools improve and ultimately holding schools accountable for their failure.
