Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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JW Sports Supplies (A); (B); and (C) - Teaching Note
Lynch; Luann J.Teaching Note DARDEN-C-2402TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2402Starting at €0.00
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Lac Leman Festival de la Musique (A)
Bodily; Samuel E.; Jenkins; RobertCase DARDEN-QA-0707-EDecision AnalysisThe organizers of a music festival may use video from the Friday concert to create a DVD to sell to those who come to the Saturday concert. Attendance on Saturday is uncertain; as is the percentage of those who attend on Saturday who will buy the DVD. Is this a good project? If so; what number of DVDs should be burned early Saturday morning and offered for sale at that evening's performance? By that time; Friday attendance is known; as well as wh...Starting at €8.20
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Lac Leman Festival de la Musique (B)
Bodily; Samuel E.; Jenkins; RobertCase DARDEN-QA-0708-EDecision AnalysisThe organizers of a music festival may use video from the Friday concert to create a DVD to sell to those who come to the Saturday concert. Attendance on Saturday is uncertain; as is the percentage of those who attend on Saturday who will buy the DVD. Is this a good project? If so; what number of DVDs should be burned early Saturday morning and offered for sale at that evening's performance? By that time; Friday attendance is known; as well as wh...Starting at €5.74
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Bidding for Hertz: Leveraged Buyout - Teaching Note
Chaplinsky, Susan; Marston, Felicia C.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1560TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1560Starting at €0.00
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Caterpillar Inc. Taps the Chinese Bond Market
Lynch; Luann J.; Haskins; Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2418-EAccounting and ControlAn MBA graduate prepares for a possible interview with Caterpillar Inc. by reading about the company’s longtime presence in China manufacturing heavy equipment and its continued optimism about the heavy equipment market in that country. He also learns that the company financed part of its operations and growth in China by issuing bonds in Hong Kong and wonders whether the company would return to that bond market in Hong Kong.Starting at €8.20
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DuPont Corporation: Sale of Performance Coatings
Chaplinsky, Susan; Marston, Felicia C.; Merker, BrettCase DARDEN-F-1709-EFinanceIn January 2012, Ellen Kullman, CEO and chairman of DuPont, must decide whether to retain or sell the company’s Performance Coatings (DPC) division. This is an introductory case on valuing a leveraged buyout. The case focuses on a publicly listed corporation’s decision to divest a large division and asks students to compare the division’s value if it remains under DuPont’s control or is sold to an outside party. The transaction size of approximat...Starting at €8.20
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Cengage Learning: Can Apax Partners Salvage This Buyout?
Chaplinsky, Susan; Marston, Felicia C.; Smith, David C.Case DARDEN-F-1727-EFinanceThis case investigates the issues involved in a private equity (PE) firm’s decision to invest in the debt of a distressed leveraged buyout. The analysis has been purposefully simplified to involve only two classes of outstanding debt, senior debt and junior debt, so that students do not need to have detailed knowledge of the bankruptcy process to complete the analysis. The main analytical task requires students to compute the expected internal ra...Starting at €8.20
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Investing in Sponsor-Backed IPOs: The Case of Hertz - Teaching Note
Chaplinsky, Susan; Marston, Felicia C.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1561TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1561Starting at €0.00
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The Carlyle Group: IPO of a Publicly Traded Private Equity Firm - Teaching Note
Chaplinsky, Susan; Marston, Felicia C.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1689TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1689Starting at €0.00
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Investing in Sponsor-Backed IPOs: The Case of Hertz
Chaplinsky, Susan; Marston, Felicia C.; Pozzi, MichaelCase DARDEN-F-1561-EFinanceThis case and its companion, UVA-F-1560, were awarded the 2012 Wachovia Award for Excellence in Teaching Materials - Innovative Case. In November 2006, Alec Berg, a successful hedge fund manager, must decide whether to invest in the initial public offering (IPO) of the Hertz Corporation. The IPO followed a leveraged buyout (LBO) of Hertz that was completed in December 2005 by three prominent private equity firms that had combined to purchase Hert...Starting at €8.20