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Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Assessing Private Equity Performance
Chaplinsky, Susan; Loutskina, ElenaTechnical Note DARDEN-F-1895-EFinanceAssessing the performance of private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investment vehicles is a challenging task. It starts with the fact that the assets are privately held and illiquid. By contrast, PE valuations are determined in a vast open market populated largely by disinterested investors acting on publicly available information. As PE and VC have grown as asset classes, investors have pushed for greater disclosure and more standardizati...Starting at €8.20
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Reggie Needs a Car (B)
Eades, Kenneth M.; Sinclair, Safiya; Fairchild, Gregory B.Case DARDEN-F-1885-EFinanceIn this case, fry cook Reggie Fuller, who wants to buy a car to ensure that he can consistently get to work on time, asks his mother if she and his sister would like to chip in with him so that he can afford a new Nissan Versa, a cheaper alternative to some of the other new cars he's been looking at. Fuller's mother responds by raising scheduling concerns along with car-related costs outside of monthly payments, such as gas, maintenance, and insu...Starting at €5.74
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Living the "Unbanked Life": Maria - Teaching Note
Eades, Kenneth M.; Sinclair, Safiya; Fairchild, Gregory B.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1892TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1892TNStarting at €0.00
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Black Coffee and Black Cards (A) - Teaching Note
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Maiden, Stephen E.; Eades, Kenneth M.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1882TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1882TNStarting at €0.00
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Reggie Needs a Car (B) - Teaching Note
Eades, Kenneth M.; Sinclair, Safiya; Fairchild, Gregory B.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1885TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1885TNStarting at €0.00
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Living the "Unbanked Life": Jaime, Renting to Own - Teaching Note
Eades, Kenneth M.; Sinclair, Safiya; Fairchild, Gregory B.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1900TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1900Starting at €0.00
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Convertible Notes: A Form of Early-Stage Financing
Chaplinsky, Susan; Becker, Joseph M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1925-EFinanceConvertible notes are often used to raise early-stage financing for start-up companies, frequently due to their advantages related to delayed valuation, greater speed, and lower cost of completion compared to venture capital financing. As a result, there has been a large increase in the number of early-stage companies raising capital through convertible notes over the past decade. Investors have made this form of financing more available, believi...Starting at €8.20
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Target Corporation (Spanish version)
Eades, Kenneth M.; Ding, David; Yeaton, SaulCase DARDEN-F-1937FinanceThis is a Spanish translation of the March 22, 2016, version of UVA-F-1563. Students are in the role of Target Corporation's CFO considering the pros and cons of a variety of capital-investment proposals. The CFO is preparing his thoughts prior to a meeting of the Capital Expenditure Committee (CEC) with other Target senior executives to consider the merits of 10 capital-project requests (CPR), 5 of which are expected to require extra attention. ...Starting at €8.20
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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TRX, Inc.: Initial Public Offering
Chaplinsky, Susan; Morita, Kensei; Zeng, XingCase DARDEN-F-1568-EFinanceThis case provides comprehensive coverage of a firm’s decision to undertake an IPO and the process of going public. The case follows the sequence of events from the company’s incorporation in 1999 through the completion of an IPO in September 2005. In addition to raising capital, the TRX IPO case also includes consideration of another motivation for going public. At the time of its incorporation in November 1999, TRX attempted to go public but in...Starting at €8.20