Brian Taylor
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 9, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for forbes.com
- Top 5K sites
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- Jul 29, 2026
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Private Equity And College Counseling: Insights For Business Owners (opens the original)
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Brian Taylor is the Managing Partner of Ivy Coach, a leading college consultancy. Private equity has come for seemingly everything from dental practices and veterinary clinics to funeral homes, HVAC companies and car washes. It has found opportunity in businesses once considered too fragmented, too local or too specialized to attract institutional capital. Now, private equity has arrived at the front door of another highly fragmented industry: private college counseling. I know because it’s my i
AI Doesn't Know Who's Lying—That's A Problem For Every Business (opens the original)
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Brian Taylor is the Managing Partner of Ivy Coach, a leading college consultancy. You pay for a car wash, and before you pull away, the cashier hands you a coupon: "Leave us a five-star review. Get 20% off your next wash." Apparently, it works. Otherwise, they wouldn't keep printing the coupons. For a $25 car wash, there's nothing particularly surprising about the transaction. Reviews are part of the business model. But imagine the same conversation at Hermès. You purchase one of the brand's ico
Five Lessons Every Business Owner Should Learn About Protecting IP (opens the original)
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Brian Taylor is the Managing Partner of Ivy Coach, a leading college consultancy. The article gripped me so completely that I nearly spilled my morning coffee on my keyboard. It argued that legacy admissions, the practice of offering preferential treatment in college admissions to the children of alumni, should have been eliminated with the fall of affirmative action. After all, if our nation's highest court ruled that underrepresented applicants could no longer receive preferential treatment, w
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