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Sea Breeze Capital (B)
Menden, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Kelly, Peter; Johnson, RobCase F-889Entrepreneurship, FinanceEn la primavera de 2012, Jordi Alves estaba enfrentando algunas decisiones difíciles. Un año antes, tras un proceso que había durado más de lo esperado, había logrado recaudar el primer fondo de búsqueda en España. Así, había dedicado un año entero a buscar una empresa para adquirirla y ahora tenía lo que parecían dos buenas adquisiciones sobre la mesa. La cuestión ahora era qué hacer. ¿Qué adquisición debía emprender? ¿Debía hacerlo? Además, no ...Starting at €5.74
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RELE Rouen: Language Immersion in Normandy (B): The Family Council
Klueter, Thomas Maximilian; Soler, EdiCase ASN-79-ECorporate Governance, Decision Analysis, Knowledge and CommunicationThe case describes various members of the Demongeot family, the house and land that they currently rent from RELE Rouen, and the business in French language learning led by Béatrice and Maxime. An offer to take over the business and family property forced the two partners to call a family meeting and decide, among the five children of the family, whether to sell the house they had all grown up in. The difficulty arose from the need to individuall...Starting at €5.74
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Local: A Fresh Option on the Icelandic Menu
Klueter, Thomas Maximilian; Steindorsson, EinarCase E-201-ELocal Salad is a start-up with three years of life in the restaurant sector. The case enables the initial analysis of the company to be reviewed in terms of its business model, overall attractiveness of the business, advantages of being a first mover and management of the entrepreneurial team. The start-up faces a number of challenges-the company is losing money, there is tension among shareholders and the logistics model (central kitchen) is not...Starting at €8.20
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Sea Breeze Capital (A) - Teaching Note
Menden, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Kelly, PeterTeaching Note FT-98-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceCase A describes the attempt made by Jordi Alves, an MBA graduate, to start the first search fund in Spain. Case B describes two acquisition opportunities that Jordi identified one year after he had launched the search fund. Jordi Alves graduated with his MBA in 2010. During his business school studies, he focused on search funds with the intent of starting his own search fund immediately after graduation. Being from Barcelona, Spain, he selected...Starting at €0.00
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Visant Capital
Kelly, Peter; Liquido, Francisco; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase E-168-EEntrepreneurshipDhruv is an Indian search fund entrepreneur. His is only the second search fund in India. More than a year into his search, he has finally found a company for acquisition and it is time to bring it to investors. Will they like the company? Or will he have to keep searching?Starting at €8.20
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Typhoon Solar: Cuellos de botella organizacionales
Palencia, Ana; Klueter, Thomas MaximilianCase ASN-91Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyTyphoon Solar ha crecido rápidamente gracias a un innovador modelo de Cash & Carry de venta de paneles solares desde sus almacenes en la cuenca del Mediterráneo. Pero, últimamente, la empresa parece tener "dolores de crecimiento". Donna, cofundadora de Typhoon Solar, debe decidir qué hacer, si es que hay que hacer algo.Starting at €8.20
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Typhoon Solar: Organizational Bottlenecks
Palencia, Ana; Klueter, Thomas MaximilianCase ASN-91-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyTyphoon Solar has grown rapidly using an innovative cash and carry model for solar panels from centers around the Mediterranean. More recently, however, the company appears to have growing pains. Donna, Typhoon Solar`s co-founder, needs to determine what (if anything) should be done.Starting at €8.20
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Factoring through NoviCap - Launching a Fintech Startup
Klueter, Thomas Maximilian; Macia, Marc AntoniCase E-215-EEntrepreneurshipNoviCap, a 100% online factoring solution for SMEs, had to take critical steps to grow in 2015. The company was centered on a new "spot factoring model", which allowed it to differentiate considerably from its competitors. Initially, founders of the fintech startup felt that many SMEs would be attracted by the lower overall costs and flexibility of its pay-as-you-go scheme. Struggling with a slow expansion of its customer base, however, the compa...Starting at €8.20
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Elbe Composites Saxony AG (ECSA)
Klueter, Thomas Maximilian; Palencia, Luis; Juan Carlos Vázquez-DoderoCase ASN-82-EDecision AnalysisElbe Composites Saxony AG (ECSA) manufactures a wide variety of metal and composite parts for the aerospace, automobile, public lighting and farm machinery industries. In July of 2018, management at ECSA had to decide on a location for a new plant.Starting at €8.20
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Sea Breeze Capital (B) - Teaching Note
Menden, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Kelly, PeterTeaching Note FT-99-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceCase A describes the attempt made by Jordi Alves, an MBA graduate, to start the first search fund in Spain in 2011. Case B describes two acquisition opportunities that Jordi identified one year after he had launched the search fund. In spring 2012, Jordi has searched hard for a company to acquire. He now has two potentially attractive acquisitions on his desk - Feva Seguridad, a Mérida, Extremadura-based alarm monitoring company, and Belladía, a ...Starting at €0.00