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Henry R. Kravis

Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

United States · b. 1944

Business and finance

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Henry Kravis is an American financier and philanthropist who co-founded the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in 1976. The firm's 1988 buyout of RJR Nabisco was for many years the largest leveraged acquisition in history.

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Question What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight read 77 other answers →
When I went through school, I was in a hurry. I was an economics major as an undergraduate, and I was a finance major in graduate school. I was in a hurry to succeed when I got out in the business world. I’m sorry I didn’t take more courses in the humanities and in history and in the arts.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 12 February 1991 source ↗

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