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Helena Divi ov
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-220020-EEntrepreneurshipHelena Divi ov (MBA, 2016) decided to return home to the Czech Republic soon after graduation to be near her father who became seriously ill soon after she started HBS. She had considered leaving HBS immediately to help run his business. But her father, who grew up in the Czech Republic when travel and overseas educational opportunities were severely limited, would not allow her to abandon her studies. Instead, Divi ov 's husband, Pavel Divi...Starting at €8.20
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Talismark
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211097-EFinanceTalismark, which helped its customers manage their waste, was considering re-engineering its business fundamentals to dramatically increase profitability by changing its sales and information processes. Implementing the changes would be expensive and would interrupt its new customer acquisition efforts, and it would be 18 months until the company could begin to acquire new business. The case explores the rationale and consequences of re-engineeri...Starting at €8.20
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Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceArticle HBS-R1701M-EEntrepreneurshipAn increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is "acquisition entrepreneurship"--buying and running an existing operation. If you're considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. (1) Think it through. Do you have the right qualities for the job (managerial skills, confidence, persuasiveness, persistence, a thirst for learning, and tolerance for stress)? Are you willing to trade the...Starting at €8.20
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National Public Broadcasting
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211058-EFinanceBob Williams, the CEO of National Public Broadcasting (NPB), was considering an unsolicited offer to purchase the company in the early spring of 2006. The company was a media underwriting representative for public television and radio stations throughout the United States. When Williams and his wife Linda Williams started NPB in 1996, they had imagined that it would grow quickly and be acquired by a larger media representation firm in a few years...Starting at €8.20
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Executive Compensation at Talent Partners, Teaching Note
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceTeaching Note HBS-220081-EFinanceTalent Partners, a payroll service firm focused on actors in commercials, hired Paul Muratore to be its CEO in 2002. His compensation package included a fixed salary and a bundle of Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) that would expire at the end of a five-year period. If Talent Partners reached its target EBITDA growth, the SAR would double Muratore's total compensation. Teaching note for case 211073.Starting at €0.00
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Systems Design West
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-220004-EEntrepreneurshipJenn Braus (HBS 2013) was half-way through the 90-day exclusivity period for her proposed acquisition of Systems Design West ("SDW"). She had completed her business and accounting due diligence. Just as she was about to ask her lawyer to begin drafting the purchase agreement, she received a call from the seller that the company had reached agreement with a large new client that would increase revenue by roughly 20%. The seller asked that the succ...Starting at €8.20
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Lind Equipment
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-212012-EFinanceLind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after it was acquired. While the senior bank debt comprised only 6% of the capital used in the acquisition and was fully secured, it exercised its right to stop payments to Lind's subordinated lender that funded about 40% of the acquisition, pushing that debt into default as well. These financial problems were the result of declinin...Starting at €8.20
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ABRY Fund V
El-Hage, Nabil N.; Ruback, Richard S.; Pierson, Leslie S.Case HBS-208027-EFinanceIn January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and relationships with media lenders, coupled with a client-service approach to working with Limited Partners. For the fund, Banks and Yudkoff had intended to raise $1 billion and continue ...Starting at €8.20
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MC Tool
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-213013-EFinanceTwo partners acquired MC Tool in October 2007 for $5 million. The company was a machine shop that manufactured parts for a wide variety of applications in the energy, automotive and industrial equipment industries. In their first year of ownership, the partners focused on improving operations and enhancing sales with impressive results: sales doubled and EBTIDA increased by over 40%. But the "Great Recession" had an immediate impact in the fall o...Starting at €8.20
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Peak Investment Capital
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-219061-EEntrepreneurshipKobbina Awuah (MBA 2014) became intrigued with the possibility of adapting Entrepreneurship through Acquisition in Ghana, where he grew up and where his family still lived. While he knew he could work for a multi-national enterprise located in Ghana, he was confident that buying a small business to run provided an opportunity to have more of an impact. He formed Peak Investment Capital (PIC) at the beginning of 2014 with the goal of finding a bus...Starting at €8.20