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IESE Insight. Issue 15. Fourth Quarter 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-36-EAccounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyClaus Rerup (Richard Ivey School of Business) presents a framework for companies to improve their capability to pick up on signals that impending crises give off before they happen. The corporate communications consultant Alfonso González-Herrero looks at the key issues that companies must address, with forecasting and planning, in order to safeguard their reputations. IESE's José R. Pin provides a guide to help managers lead and communicate, so ...Starting at €22.00
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Genmedi: How to Value a New Company for an Upcoming Round of Financing - Teaching Note
Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Kolarova, LenkaTeaching Note ET-34-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceEvery venture capital and private equity deal involves determining the value of the company. This is one of the most important-and most difficult-tasks faced by an investor (and an entrepreneur), and skill is required when using the various methods for valuing a company. In March 2019, the investors in LifeCycle Ltd.-a technology company based in Shanghai, China-set up a new company, Genmed, to capitalize on an innovative technology for biologica...Starting at €0.00
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GeneRisk.com
Johnson, RobCase E-67Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeA mediados del año 2000, los inversores en Medical Sciences Limited (MSL) consolidaron una nueva compañía, GeneRisk.com, para concentrar su capital en una herramienta de software propiedad de MSL. La inmediata cuestión planteada a los inversores de MSL fue cómo evaluar esta nueva compañía para la siguiente tanda de financiación.Starting at €8.20
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JacobsRimell (B): una apuesta única que da sus resultados: Decisiones y consecuencias
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-9Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso B sobre una joven compañía tecnológica del Reino Unido respaldada por capital riesgo que trata de recuperarse de una crisis casi definitiva no puede impartirse de forma aislada, pues es una continuación directa del caso "JacobsRimell (A): cómo evitar la quiebra". En esta segunda parte se comentan las decisiones que adoptó la empresa durante y después de su casi definitiva crisis (provocada por la pérdida de dos contratos importantes en...Starting at €8.20
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JacobsRimell (A): Leading out of Bankruptcy: A CEO takes on the role of "bad cop" to save a failing UK software company
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-8-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis. The company offered a technology related to the management of broadband access, VoIP and digital television (DTV) services to large TelCos and cable providers, but is on the verge of bankruptcy after they have unexpectedly lost two large contracts within a very short time. The VC firm is bringing in a new (first-time) CEO in ord...Starting at €8.20
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JacobsRimell (B): A One-Shot Bet Pays Off: Decisions & Consequences
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-9-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case B about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "JacobsRimell (A): Leading out of Bankruptcy". This second part illustrated the decisions the firm took during and after the crisis (caused by having unexpectedly lost two large contracts within a very short time) with regard to financing, market focu...Starting at €8.20
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Pentagram: The Craft of Design - Teaching Note
Mitchell, Jordan; Prats, Mª JuliaTeaching Note ET-14-EEntrepreneurshipPentagram a multi-disciplinary design firm with 19 partners in five offices (London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco and Austin) is considered to be the "Rolls-Royce of Design" by its peers. The company¹s growth is based on adding well-known designers who in turn bring in business under the Pentagram name. The group is facing tremendous competitive pressure from integrated advertising conglomerates such as WPP, Omnicom and Interpublic. Twenty...Starting at €0.00
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Espresso House
de Santiago, Rafael; Carreras, Julián; Palaniswami, Ramesh; Vilà, JenniferCase AD-390-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, FinanceThe financial attractiveness of branded coffee shops attracted investments from the private equity industry in 2005. The case analyzes how Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm, used quantitative analysis to assess the risk of a 5-year growth investment in Espresso House, a branded coffee shop chain in Sweden.Starting at €8.20
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Argo Interactive (A): Surviving in the Roller-Coasting Mobile Industry: A struggling mobile software provider must decide whether to retreat, refocus, or rebrand
Prats, Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveCase EFC-1-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis after their market did not pick up. The company Argo Interactive focused, with their innovative software product, on the newly emerging WAP-market. However, after burning through 14 million pound sterling of venture capital, the market had still not shown any signs of life, and the senior management team needed to make an urgent...Starting at €8.20
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Accent Equity Partners and the San Sac Deal
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-983-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was April 2019, and Niklas Sloutski, Chief Executive Officer of Accent Equity Partners, a Stockholm-based private equity firm, had just returned from a meeting with the firm's partners. The meeting in which they reviewed the firm's investment portfolio brought discussions about the implications of pursuing a possible exit from the investment in the San Sac Group, a market-leading provider of waste sorting, containment and compaction products i...Starting at €8.20