Here's a good read for Easter that you might not have seen before. Written in 2008, it looks at the desperately broke Cagiva days of the mid-'90's, how & why the controlling stake of Ducati went to TPG, and the business decisions TPG then made that got them in over their head.... https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2007/12/17/ducati-comeback.html