Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Brown Robin Capital: Executing a Search Fund Acquisition
Chess R; Klessig ACase SGSB-E472-EEntrepreneurshipBrown Robin Capital details the experiences of Stanford GSB graduates Ryan Robinson and Lucas Braun in pursuing a search fund acquisition. The case explains the search fund model and provides historical asset class performance statistics. Then, the protagonists detail the decision to engage in a search fund, raising the initial search capital, performing due diligence on a series of prospective acquisition targets, abandoning several potential ...Starting at €8.20
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Insight to Outcome: A Note on Strategy Development and Implementation
Thomas S. Wurster, Derek Kennedy, Jason ZajacCase SGSB-SM238-EStrategyMost business activities can be understood as progressions from insight to outcome – getting from the original spark of an idea to the actual realization of financial and strategic results. And yet, leaders and companies fail to master this progression all the time, in the headline-grabbing, large scale transformative initiatives we read about, as well in the rest of iceberg – the core business processes and the non-routine initiatives and proje...Starting at €8.20