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Learning From the Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis article shares the insights of "entrepreneurial icebreakers" -- business pioneers who launched private companies in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and who expanded beyond national borders by clearing pathways for themselves and others into international markets around the globe. In documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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Bluewater Capital and ENI Partners: Private Equity Fund Restructuring Situation Caused by a Key Person Event
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-918-ECorporate Governance, FinanceIn March 2009, Ricard Thomas - managing director at Bluewater Capital, a European-based alternative asset management company focused on private equity investments - was preparing for his next trip to London. The next day, all the investors in the most recent fund of ENI Partners (ENI, the general partner, or GP), a London-based private equity firm, would meet to discuss the fate of one of the leading private equity houses in Continental Europe. I...Starting at €8.20
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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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Soomaa Labs OU (A)
Johnson, Rob; Kolarova, LenkaCase E-218-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceThe fast-growing company in this case is considering pursuing an IPO on NASDAQ. The A case focuses on whether the company should do the IPO and, if so, what the process would involve and what the IPO valuation might be. The B case examines proposals from four investment banks to be the lead advisor on the IPO. The C case describes events leading up to the final stages just prior to the IPO.Starting at €8.20
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Soomaa Labs OU (C)
Johnson, Rob; Kolarova, LenkaCase E-220-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceThe fast-growing company in this case is considering pursuing an IPO on NASDAQ. The A case focuses on whether the company should do the IPO and, if so, what the process would involve and what the IPO valuation might be. The B case examines proposals from four investment banks to be the lead advisor on the IPO. The C case describes events leading up to the final stages just prior to the IPO.Starting at €5.74
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Angus Morrison Ltd - Teaching Note
Johnson, Rob; Kolarova, LenkaTeaching Note ET-53-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceThis case describes an opportunity for an experienced Scotch whisky executive to buy a company operating in the Scotch whisky industry. Part of the opportunity involves transforming the company, currently a broker and whisky supplier, into a full-fledged Scotch whisky company. The case details some of the complications of securing and then financing a deal.Starting at €0.00
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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
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Hoja de ruta para emprendedores pioneros
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyTras la caída del Muro de Berlín, muchos emprendedores de la Europa del Este fundaron empresas y se expandieron por todo el mundo, abriendo camino en los mercados internacionales para otros emprendedores. En este artículo, los autores ilustran con la trayectoria de esos pioneros cómo sortear estructuras demasiado rígidas y caducas gracias a nuevas dinámicas, una redefinición de la creación de valor y un cambio de mentalidad. Sus lecciones son esp...Starting at €8.20
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Beyond Business Instinct
Agulles, Remei; Prats Moreno, Mª JuliaArticle ART-1450-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementWhile it is widely assumed that entrepreneurs need business competencies like industry analysis, negotiating skills and resource management, other competencies such as interpersonal skills and self-leadership are all too often overlooked. Yet such competencies play a vital role in entrepreneurship - indeed they are a prerequisite for mobilizing the other capabilities and putting them to work in the various contexts in which entrepreneurship take...Starting at €8.20
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Accolade Group
Kolarova, Lenka; Johnson, RobCase E-225-EFinanceIn September 2005, John Allen, the Chairman and founder of Accolade Group, leaned back in the armchair in his office and reflected on the developments in his company over the past nine years. Allen had a lifelong career in the UK leisure industry, culminating in his founding of the Accolade Group through a £279m management buy-in (MBI) of the Accolade Bingo business from Guss, a quoted UK-based leisure company, in 1997. Allen had a vision that un...Starting at €8.20