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Smaart Home Furniture Adding Value by Adding Services - Teaching Note
Vidya Suresh; M SelvalakshmiTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M090-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M090.Starting at €0.00
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Smaart Home Furniture: Adding Value by Adding Services
Vidya Suresh; M SelvalakshmiCase IVEY-9B19M090-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2016, the founder and managing director of Smaart Home Furniture, a furniture manufacturer in southern India, faced a dilemma. Although the business remained profitable, it was facing stiff competition from local players, branded and non-branded playerStarting at €8.20
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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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RadNet, Inc.: Financing an Acquisition
Chaplinsky, Susan; Droznik, AlexCase DARDEN-F-1652-EFinanceThis case examines issues surrounding the choice of financing arrangements for the acquisition of Radiologix in July 2006. The case follows Mark Stolper, the CFO of RadNet, as he considers how to raise the $363 million in funds necessary to finance the acquisition. When completed, the combined firms will be the largest private diagnostic-imaging provider in the United States. When Stolper joined RadNet in 2003, he confronted a company with "too m...Starting at €8.20
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Investure, LLC: Investing in Alternative Assets
Chaplinsky, SusanCase DARDEN-F-1971-EFinanceIn July 2019, Bruce Miller, CEO of Investure, LLC (Investure), an outsourced chief investment office (OCIO), is preparing a proposal for Franklin and Marshall (F&M), a small liberal arts college located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with an endowment of $350 million. F&M recently began a search to find a new endowment manager in hopes of improving its investment returns and access to alternative assets (AA), such as private equity (PE) and hedge fu...Starting at €8.20
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Hope Medicals: A Retail Pharmacy Treading between Brick and Click - Teaching Note
Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Choudhary Wajahat Naeem Azmi; M Selvalakshmi; P MUTHARASI; Janey ZhangTeaching Note IVEY-W34714-EAccounting and Control, FinanceTeaching note for product W34713.Starting at €0.00
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Hope Medicals: A Retail Pharmacy Treading between Brick and Click
Choudhary Wajahat Naeem Azmi; Zhichuan (Frank) Li; M Selvalakshmi; P MUTHARASI; Janey ZhangCase IVEY-W34713-EAccounting and Control, FinanceHope Medicals owner, Shiva Aruguman, was considering entering the online pharmacy market. Hope Medicals was a local pharmacy in Madurai, India’s Tamil Nadu state, and Aruguman was at a strategic crossroads—he had to decide whether to expand into the online pharmacy market. With the challenges (financial and non-financial) of integrating the “brick” and “click” modes of his pharmacy business, Aruguman had to conduct an analysis based on capital bu...Starting at €8.20