Bain nearly quadrupled the money its investors put into ddi starting in 1996 , turning a $ 41 million investment into $ 157 million of value within a few years , according to the 2004 prospectus .
A more recent survey by ddi , another american consultancy , found that more than half of respondents described their job as " stagnant " , meaning that they had nothing interesting to do and little hope of promotion .
Knowing what you 're supposed to be doing may sound obvious , but the ddi survey found that many new managers are " in the dark about what it takes to be successful . "
For instance , global talent management firm development dimensions international ( ddi ) , whose clients include dozens of fortune 500 companies from avon ( avp ) to verizon ( vz ) , recently polled 1,130 newly promoted managers and found that most were obliged to " sink or swim " : only one in 10 had gotten any leadership training or coaching .
One of these deals involved ddi corp. , an anaheim , calif. , maker of circuit boards .
其中一项交易牵涉到加州阿纳海姆(anaheim)电路板制造商ddicorp.。
Bain merged ddi with another firm in which bain also held a stake and took the combined company public in 2000 .
贝恩将ddi与另一家持股公司进行了合并,并让这家合并公司在2000年上市。
Ddi defaulted on some of its debt in late 2002 at a time when bain still controlled two of its six board seats , and filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2003 .