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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Note on Restructuring Non-Debt Liabilities in the United States
Harmon, MikeCase SGSB-F318-EFinanceFinancial restructuring for a distressed firm and its significant counterparties is the process of “recontracting.” This involves significantly altering, replacing, or terminating key financial contracts for the purpose of rehabilitation. Most of these contracts, as of the date of such restructuring, typically relate to debt obligations with claim values that are known to the firm and to each of the counterparties who are involved in the restru...Starting at €8.20
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DropBox - Series B Financing
Strebulaev, I; Foroughi, J; GouwCase SGSB-F309-EFinanceIn mid-2011, as global markets corrected amid worldwide economic uncertainty, Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the fast-growing file synchronization and sharing company, found himself in a difficult, albeit enviable, situation. Houston, who had already raised over $7 million through two rounds of venture funding (one seed round and a Series A round) and developed a large and growing user base, began receiving significant investor int...Starting at €8.20
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Richard Lund: Personal Wealth and Philanthropy
Parker G; Rappaport A, Foroughi JCase SGSB-F308-EFinanceRichard Lund had reached an important crossroads in his life. At age 65, Lund had had a great deal of success—and amassed much wealth—but he needed to devise a plan for the future. Namely, he needed to figure out what to do with the wealth of which he was so proud and that he had accumulated as a result of his own hard work and perseverance. This case describes a hypothetical investor faced with the challenges of philanthropy and its role in weal...Starting at €8.20
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Schroder Family (B): Investment Strategy ad Asset Allocation
Parker, G; Rappaport, A,, Foroughi, JCase SGSB-F306B-ECorporate Governance, FinanceHaving identified his “needs and dreams,” Paul Schroder had to figure out what to do next. Putting emotions aside, he needed to identify the best options to come up with the required amounts of liquidity at the right times. As Schroder thought through the issues, he viewed his company, Travel Imagination, as the key to his goals. He could continue to manage and own the business, but he was concerned about this asset’s concentration and unpredic...Starting at €5.74
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Schroder Family (A): Personal Wealth, Family, and Estates
Parker, G; Rappaport, A,, Foroughi, JCase SGSB-F306A-ECorporate Governance, FinancePaul Schroder had recently celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday and was beginning to feel his age. While he recognized that there were many good years ahead, he also realized that it was not too early to begin to think seriously about his retirement and his estate. For years, he had been encouraged to make a careful estate plan, but he always put it off, thinking that he would take care of it at a later time. Now was that later time. This case d...Starting at €8.20
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Restructuring at Neiman Marcus Group (A)
Harmon, Mike; Robles-Garcia, ClaudiaCase SGSB-F317A-EFinanceGeorge Kurtz founded CrowdStrike in 2011 to bring next-generation cybersecurity products to the marketplace. CrowdStrike used artificial intelligence to train its detection agent on evolving threats. This approach was revolutionary in an industry that had previously been fighting against previously detected and catalogued threats. CrowdStrike grew quickly, with impressive financial metrics. The company went public in 2019, and continued to evolv...Starting at €8.20
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Financial Statement Analysis (A)
McNichols, Maureen; Tayan, BrianCase SGSB-A186A-EFinanceA financial statement, ratio analysis involving a high-growth retail company. An individual shareholder in the Costco Wholesale Corp. is trying to evaluate the operational performance of the business she has invested in over the last five years. She seeks to answer two questions: Has Costco become more or less efficient over this time period? And how has it financed its growth? She organizes her analysis into three parts: common-size financial st...Starting at €8.20
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Managing for Valie at the Global Environment Fund
Meehan W; Pfleiderer P; Kennedy M; McCoy DCase SGSB-F285-EFinanceThe Global Environment Fund (GEF) is a private equity fund focused on investments in environmental and energy solutions in both developed and developing markets. The fund is currently examining the strategy of one of its portfolio companies–NEOgás, a Latin American natural gas supplier–which is considering entering the Mexican distribution market. The also case recounts two previous GEF investments in emerging markets, a South African forestry ...Starting at €8.20
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Financial Statement Analysis (B) - Teaching Note
McNichols, Maureen; Tayan, BrianTeaching Note SGSB-A186BTN-EFinanceAn investor is called on to make a forecast and valuation for Costco. Provides information about the history of Costco as an investment, industry growth drivers, and forecasting models.Starting at €0.00
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Financial Statement Analysis (A) - Teaching Note
McNichols, Maureen; Tayan, BrianTeaching Note SGSB-A186ATN-EFinanceA financial statement, ratio analysis involving a high-growth retail company. An individual shareholder in the Costco Wholesale Corp. is trying to evaluate the operational performance of the business she has invested in over the last five years. She seeks to answer two questions: Has Costco become more or less efficient over this time period? And how has it financed its growth? She organizes her analysis into three parts: common-size financial st...Starting at €0.00