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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Bill Ackman's Big Short of Herbalife
Vandebroek, Tom; Ferraro, Fabrizio; Simon, JanCase SM-1611-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance, StrategyThis case describes how hedge fund activist Bill Ackman took a $1 billion short position on the shares of the nutrition company Herbalife. Ackman is convinced that Herbalife's business model is essentially a pyramid scheme, rendering it unsustainable as well as illegal. The case describes his arguments and the evidence he builds on. Other hedge fund titans soon took the opposite position on Herbalife, possibly because they fundamentally disagree ...Starting at €8.20
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Alessandro Mueller: How to Become an Entrepreneur by Making the Numbers Work
Ruman, Szczepan; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-862-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceAlessandro leaned back in his chair. Through the windows of his home office in Aachen, Germany, he could already see the sunrise and he was not even close to making his buyout model work. Two days from now, on March 13, 2012, he had to deliver the model for this opportunity to his investors. But how could he get their desired IRR and at the same time maintain the stake he wanted to have in this investment? He put away a can of Coke that he was ab...Starting at €8.20