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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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Light Rail in Denver?: The Private Sector and Infrastructure Development (A)
Murphy, Daniel; Gilbert, LeeCase DARDEN-GEM-0188EconomicsThis case follows Nwanneoma "Neena" Ngondai and her work on the proposed FasTracks prograStarting at €8.20
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From Feast to Famine: Stemming Health System Financial Losses in the COVID-19 Era
Feist, J. CoreyCase DARDEN-E-0458-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityUniversity of Virginia (UVA) Health has seen strong financial health and sustained growth in recent years, and has just hired promising new leadership. But in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis hit with little time to prepare and resulted in immediate and significant financial losses across the organization. Now, with looming losses, J. Corey Feist, CEO of the University Physicians Group (UPG) at the UVA Health System, must help develop a financial ...Starting at €8.20
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Health Care Providers
Feist, J. CoreyCase DARDEN-E-0457-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIsabelle Davis, dean of the School of Nursing at Mountain View University, must develop a plan to support the mental health and well-being of the clinical workforce. She has spent the last three years working with the National Academy of Medicine on clinician well-being and burnout, and now the COVID-19 pandemic is adding a new stressor to the lives of clinicians, including doctors and nurses. Ensuring that clinicians would seek the support and c...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
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Light Rail in Denver?: The Private Sector and Infrastructure Development (A)
Murphy, Daniel; Gilbert, LeeCase DARDEN-GEM-0188-EEconomicsThis case follows Nwanneoma Ngondai (Neena) and her work on the proposed FasTracks program, a large-scale commuter rail initiative in Denver. Neena’s job was to determine if the FasTracks program was viable as it had been laid out, and if so, to make theStarting at €8.20