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Assessing Private Equity Performance
Chaplinsky, SusanTechnical Note DARDEN-F-1895-EFinanceAssessing the performance of private equity (PE) investments is a challenging task. It starts with the fact that the assets are privately held and illiquid. By contrast, public equity valuations are determined in a vast open market populated largely by disinterested investors acting on publicly available information. Therefore, to make an informed assessment about PE performance, investors should be aware of the areas where general partners’ disc...Starting at €8.20
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Balance-Statement Reporting at Premium Capital Funds (B)
Lopez-Jimenez, Liliana; Orozco, Luis Antonio; Gentile, MaryCase DARDEN-OB-1307-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This B case contains a video and a transcript of an interview the case authors conducted with Ricardo Martinez on July 15, 2019, concerning his reflections on the ethical conflict described in the case and what he actually did about it.Starting at €5.74
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Balance-Statement Reporting at Premium Capital Funds (A)
Lopez-Jimenez, Liliana; Orozco, Luis Antonio; Martinez-Gomez, Ricardo Emilio; Gentile, MaryCase DARDEN-OB-1306-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In 2009, Ricardo Martinez, management assistant at Premium Capital Investment Advisors (PCIA), was asked to fabricate some of the information to be included in the monthly account balance statements addressed to five shareholders in Premium Capital Funds (Premium), a p...Starting at €8.20
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Convertible Notes: A Form of Early-Stage Financing
Chaplinsky, Susan; Becker, Joseph M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1925-EFinanceConvertible notes are often used to raise early-stage financing for start-up companies, frequently due to their advantages related to delayed valuation, greater speed, and lower cost of completion compared to venture capital financing. As a result, there has been a large increase in the number of early-stage companies raising capital through convertible notes over the past decade. Investors have made this form of financing more available, believi...Starting at €8.20
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Programming a "Fairer" System: Assessing Bias in Enterprise AI Products (A)
Gentile, Mary; Krasniansky, AdrianaCase DARDEN-OB-1340-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, Timothy Brennan is the founder and CEO of technology company Northpointe, Inc. (Northpointe), and the creator of its flagship software program, COMPAS, an artificially intelligent software tool for US court systems that predicts a defendant’s likelihood t...Starting at €8.20
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Programming a "Fairer" System: Assessing Bias in Enterprise AI Products (B)
Gentile, Mary; Krasniansky, AdrianaCase DARDEN-OB-1341-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, Timothy Brennan is the founder and CEO of technology company Northpointe, Inc. (Northpointe), and the creator of its flagship software program, COMPAS, an artificially intelligent software tool for US court systems that predicts a defendant’s likelihood t...Starting at €5.74
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The Information Dilemma (A)
Hoch, Julia; Jain, Sonal; Benavente, Julie Calderon; Akolade-Yilu, Damisola; Castellanos, Laura; Gentile, MaryCase DARDEN-OB-1346-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Maria Pérez has been working at IBB, one of the largest investment banksStarting at €8.20
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The Information Dilemma (A) and (B) - Teaching Note
Hoch, Julia; Jain, Sonal; Benavente, Julie Calderon; Akolade-Yilu, Damisola; Castellanos, Laura; Gentile, MaryTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1346TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product OB-1346Starting at €0.00
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Illustrative Transformations (A)
Gentile, Mary; Hoch, JuliaCase DARDEN-OB-1354-ELeadership and People ManagementSusan, a first-year analyst at a trading firm, is the only woman among a tight-knit group of 30 analysts, now that Paulette has just been promoted to associate from third-year analyst. She and the rest of the analysts are summoned to an HR meeting because one of the male analysts has been putting Post-It Notes with drawings of penises in Paulette’s workspace. All the analysts know who the offender is, but no one, including Susan, identifies him. ...Starting at €8.20
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Interbolsa’s Repo Trading: How to Stop an Insolvency Ticking Time Bomb (A)
Gentile, Mary; Lopez-Jimenez, Liliana; Arabia-Wartenberg, Jorge; Orozco, Luis AntonioCase DARDEN-OB-1356-ELeadership and People ManagementIn August 2004, Interbolsa’s risk management committee had to decide upon a request to double the authorized quota for repurchase agreements (repos) on Interbolsa’s own stock. Two months earlier, Jorge Arabia had joined Interbolsa, the largest stock brokerage firm in Colombia, as CFO. In this role, he had a seat in the risk management committee. Arabia had noticed that these repos carried large and diverse risks, not only for the firm but also f...Starting at €8.20