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How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
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What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSome experts argue that corporate leaders are starving their firms of investment capital by making excessive payouts to shareholders, thereby undermining... -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction. -
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleWith a venture buyout, an established company partners with a VC firm to spin out an internal startup. -
When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision
Venture capital Digital ArticleMore data isn’t always helpful. -
What Venture Trends Can Tell You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research from McKinsey suggests what the inevitable shakeout in the venture capital industry heralds for the broader business community. -
Truth About Private Equity Performance
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity fund performance is most often reported in a way that exaggerates the truth. A modified calculation gives a more accurate read of performance... -
More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch suggests they're likely to be disappointed. -
The Dos and Don'ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data
Global Business Digital ArticleOvercome data gaps, biased data, and outdated numbers. -
A Cheaper Way to Do IPOs
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleInitial public offerings are expensive, and many owners turn to M&A instead. But a little-understood mechanism known as a tax receivable agreement can... -
Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleI am not pessimistic about Facebook's future. I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus... -
Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing
Venture capital Digital Article“Alright, you caught us. We’re actually not making any money. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.” This is the essence of Groupon’s declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon’s profits before subtracting […] -
Dear Entrepreneur: Think Cash, Not Ideas
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleLast week NBA legend-turned-entrepreneur Magic Johnson sold his Starbucks franchises back to the corporation for a reported $75 million. Rumor has it,... -
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleBuyout firms would see opportunity for value enhancement in five key areas. Why not beat them to the punch? -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleBased on a study of 918 Israeli companies.
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MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
The Timken Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The acquisition of Torrington, Inc., from Ingersoll-Rand, Inc., required a strategy that met both the investment and financing objectives of the Timken... -
Antler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the founding, development, and scaling of Antler, an early-stage investment platform that invests in entrepreneurs pre-team and, in... -
Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Wit Capital brings democracy to the IPO process via the World Wide Web. This case encourages debate about the role service will play in this technology-intermediated... -
Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Most companies around the world are family-controlled and/or closely held. The need to value these companies routinely arises in practice for a variety... -
Cincom Systems, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tom Nies, charismatic CEO of Cincom Systems, is considering a public offering of his software enterprise, but the 1987 stock market crash checks his plans.... -
Netflix: Going Public
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details For Netflix's IPO, on May 23, 2002, the company selected Merrill Lynch as the lease underwriter. The case details the process the offering team followed... -
Walking the IPO Catwalk: Rent the Runway's Public Offering
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case examines Rent the Runway (RTR), a company that provided its customers the luxury of getting to wear the hottest designer fashions without having... -
Held Hostage in the 21st Century: Cybersecurity, Ransomware, and Crisis Management (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
Note on Financial Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Serves as an introduction to funds flows and ratio analysis. Includes basic discussion of these tools as assists in the analyst's or manager's job. Supplementary... -
F&S Investments: Understanding Value at Risk
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Within the context of a fictitious hedge fund, a new analyst has been asked to use value at risk (VaR) to evaluate two potential additions to its portfolio... -
The Google IPO
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In the spring of 2004, Google was one of the most-talked-about IPO ideas since Netscape had gone public in 1995. Bullish investors believed Google could... -
Project Charlie - Target Information
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case IN1784 -
Kendle International, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Candace Kendle and Christopher Bergen, the CEO and COO of Kendle International, Inc., are reviewing ways to finance the growth of their privately-owned... -
IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin... -
BC Partners: Acuris
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Nikos Stathopoulos, Managing Partner of BC Partners, as he and his team evaluate the potential sale of one of BC Partners' portfolio... -
Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Venture capital Magazine ArticleAn inside look at an opaque process -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
Everything You Need to Know About Stock Options and RSUs
Budgets and budgeting AdviceJust like salary, you should negotiate equity compensation. -
MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing...