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Next Street, LLC
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211094-EEntrepreneurshipNext Street Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability and success of its client companies, thereby enhancing economic development, wealth and job creation in the inner city. The advisory component of its mission seemed well underway but raising a fund to dire...Starting at €8.20
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Greg Mazur and the Purchase of Great Eastern Premium Pet Foods
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211085-EEntrepreneurshipGreg Mazur decided to purchase a small business after graduating from the Harvard Business School. The case explores his decision about whether or not he should finalize his deal to purchase Great Eastern Premium Pet Foods, Inc. ("GEPP"). It gives students the opportunity to consider his search process, his due diligence about the company, his post-purchase plans, his valuation analysis and the structure of the potential transaction.Starting at €8.20
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Antoine Leboyer and GSX
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-214038-EEntrepreneurshipInstructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details. Antoine Leboyer (HBS '92) acquired the Swiss-based software company GSX in February 2008. He managed through the recession of 2008-2009, dealt with a tumultuous separation from the founder/owner, rebuilt the management team, and upgraded the company's software development. By mid-2012 Leboyer believed GSX was positioned to invest in...Starting at €8.20
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Red Hen Baking Company
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211091-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2007, the Red Hen Baking Company was deciding whether to move from its cramped and inefficient facility to a new facility. It had been in business about 8 years, and 2006 was the first year RHB realized a profit that was over $50,000. The added annualStarting at €8.20
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Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211083-EEntrepreneurshipRiverview Technologies was a Stockholm, Sweden-based company that had developed software hedge funds. After spending more than a year in an organized sale process, the winning bidder had become increasingly difficult to work with and the closing had been substantially delayed. Despite the late stage of the process, the selling shareholders were considering walking away.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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Home Nursing of North Carolina
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-212120-EEntrepreneurshipAri Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his own company. His search identified a suitable acquisition in Home Nursing of North Carolina, and he had negotiated a purchase price of $3.5 million, or 4.2x trailing EBITDA. Medoff had completed his due diligence, arranged financing, and completed the legal documents required to complete the acquisition and anticipated closing the transaction in just a few weeks...Starting at €8.20
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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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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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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