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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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Retribución: Soluciones al rompecabezas
Bourne, Mike; Contreras, Ignacio; Edmans, Alex; Franco-Santos, Mónica; Gómez López-Egea, Sandalio; Marcos, Javier; Tosi, Henry L.Dossier DOS-7Finance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEncajar todas las piezas del sistema de remuneraciones es posible. La solución pasa, en parte, por aprender de la crisis.Starting at €15.00
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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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El arte y la ciencia de fijar objetivos
Franco-Santos, Mónica; Marcos, Javier; Bourne, MikeArticle ART-1866Leadership and People ManagementLa reciente crisis económica y la quiebra de muchas instituciones financieras dan fe de los peligros de combinar unos objetivos de rendimiento excesivamente ambiciosos con bonus abultados. Los objetivos, en el mejor de los casos, pueden motivar positivamente a los empleados, pero, en el peor, empujarles a comportamientos disfuncionales, con resultados tan nefastos como los que hemos visto. ¿Qué pueden hacer las empresas para acertar con su...Starting at €8.20
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The Art and Science of Target Setting
Franco-Santos, Mónica; Marcos, Javier; Bourne, MikeArticle ART-1866-ELeadership and People ManagementThe recent economic crisis and the collapse of many financial institutions stand as living proof of the dangers of overly ambitious targets coupled with fat bonuses. Targets, at their best, can motivate people to succeed; at their worst, they induce employees to engage in dysfunctional behavior, leading to detrimental outcomes like those recently witnessed. How can companies get it right? The authors studied target-setting practices involving sal...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