
I was an Eyewitness to a Murder
It’s rare to be an eyewitness to murder. One of the leading companies in the New York City event planning business was killed recently, and its story has some lessons for people inside and outside the industry in which it participated. The company was acquired by a much bigger player a number of years ago. The backers of the acquiring company were private equity investors who had the idea of doing a national rollup of businesses in this particular industry segment and then t