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View from the Top: George Roberts: Additional Reading

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
View from the Top

George Roberts, Founding Partner of KKR

 

 

George Roberts is one of the founding partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR) which specializes in finding, financing, and investing its own capital in management buyouts. Since its inception in 1976, KKR has invested approximately $200 billion in more than 140 transactions.

Prior to founding KKR & Co., Mr. Roberts was in the corporate finance department of Bear, Stearns & Co. from 1969 to 1976, having become a partner at the age of 29.

Mr. Roberts graduated from Culver Military Academy in 1962, from Claremont McKenna College in 1966, and from University of California (Hastings) Law School in 1969.

Mr. Roberts is a director of several public and private companies. He serves as a director or trustee of several cultural and educational institutions, including the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and Claremont McKenna College.

Selected Articles

Additional reading material has been selected by Jackson Library Staff. Due to contractual arrangements, remote access is only available to the current Stanford community and the subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Other access is limited to onsite at Jackson Library. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of ideas expressed.

Financial Insight: A Short-Lived Golden Age; Private Equity Highlights Shift in Market Sentiment; Correction or Far Worse? Wall Street Journal, 07/27/07
Henry Kravis said in April that we are in private equity's "golden age." This past week, George Roberts, Mr. Kravis's cousin and a co- founder of buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., said the coming years would be harder. And David Rubenstein, co-founder of rival buyout shop Carlyle Group, said the golden age couldn't last forever. View article

The KKR Way Bloomberg Markets, 08/07
The deals are just the start. The original 'barbarians at the gate' now command a $107 billion global empire. Here's how the buyout giant fires up its companies with a profit-or-perish creed. View article

Buying Up & Giving Back Institutional Investor, 05/07
Running a well-organized philanthropic organization and operating a private equity firm prove to have more in common than one might think.
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How Kravis, Roberts Think Wall Street Journal, 03/01/07
In the New York office of private-equity icon Henry Kravis, an eclectic collection of books competes with tombstones commemorating Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. deals for shelf space. View article

Future of the KKR 'Barbarians' Chief Executive, 03//06
Henry Kravis, founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), offers an appropriately expansive insight into how he views his place in Wall Street history. KKR, the investment firm founded nearly 30 years ago, acquired RJR Nabisco, the food and tobacco company, for $30 billion. Since then, KKR has continued to plow billions of dollars into companies around the world, generating gross profits of nearly $40 billion for investors and the firm's partners. View article

Corporate Governance and the Power of Ownership Corporate Board, Sept/Oct 1998
As co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the firm that revolutionized the leveraged buyout world, George Roberts has learned a thing or two about valuing a corporation. One of his most important rules: the board of directors can be crucial to success-if you pay them to think like owners. View article

Selected Websites

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