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Deutsche Bank: Restructure, Change, and Trust
Harris, Robert S.; Wicks, Andrew C.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-F-1962-EFinanceThis public-sourced case describes Deutsche Bank and what leaders called its most fundamental transformation in decades to frame a discussion on how the current CEO, Christian Sewing, chooses to reshape the global bank. Notable were plans to reduce Deutsche Bank’s footprint in investment banking and reorganize management. The material offers a short history of prior restructuring efforts that allow for an opportunity to discuss what Deutsche Bank...Starting at €8.20
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Healthineers: A Strategic IPO
Harris, Robert S.; Holtz, PaulCase DARDEN-F-1881-EFinanceThis case covers the initial public offering (IPO) of the Siemens subsidiary Healthineers. The March 2018 offering of the health care technology firm was heavily anticipated on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and was Germany’s largest IPO in more than 20 years. Healthineers was one of Siemens’ most successful businesses, and its management board had a keen interest in its long-term success and in the valuation that financial markets would place on ...Starting at €8.20
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Baker Packaging, Inc.
Conroy, Robert M.; Harris, Robert S.; Ranjan, RahulCase DARDEN-F-1624-EFinanceStudents consider which capital budgeting approach to take when evaluating a packaging manufacturer’s joint venture proposal. Suitable for MBA and undergraduate students, the case presents a scenario in which a lack of short-term profits and the resulting lack of tax payments could make adjusted present value a better choice than weighted average cost of capital. Students also consider how to value the industrial bond financing that would fund co...Starting at €8.20
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Lonestar Graphite
Harris, Robert S.; Gaede, JasonCase DARDEN-F-1595-EFinanceLonestar Graphite is a potential purchase for a middle-market private equity firm. The private equity firm must decide what to offer for an equity position in Lonestar, based on both the underlying operations of the firm and the availability of other sources of funds (largely debt) to finance a transaction. Opportunities for analysis include application of a number of valuation techniques including variations of discounted cash flow models and mu...Starting at €8.20
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Catalyst Health Solutions: A Script for Success?
Harris, Robert S.; Green, RickCase DARDEN-F-1666-EFinanceIn February 2011, David Blair, CEO of Catalyst Health Solutions, was considering another acquisition. Catalyst was already the fastest-growing pharmacy benefit management company in the United States, and Blair had his eye on a subsidiary of Walgreen Co., the second-largest retail drugstore chain in the country. Walgreen Co. was focusing its corporate strategy on the retail business and had just purchased 258 Duane Reade pharmacies in New York fo...Starting at €8.20
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943-945 Warren Road
Conroy, Robert M.; Harris, Robert S.Case DARDEN-F-1638-EFinanceThis case, intended for MBA and executive education audiences, investigates whether an LLC should invest in a real estate deal. The materials provide a straightforward opportunity for applying discounted-cash-flow methods from the perspective of equity investors in the LLC. The investors know the terms of interest and principal payments on planned debt financing and have made forecasts of rental rates, occupancy, depreciation, future sale price, ...Starting at €8.20
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salauno
Harris, Robert S.; Hernández, Alexis KretchmarCase DARDEN-F-1830-EFinanceThis case introduces salauno, a for-profit company founded by two young entrepreneurs, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, who wanted to eliminate needless blindness in Mexico. Untreated cataracts and complications from diabetes were the leading causes of blindness in Mexico as of 2017, and the entrepreneurs aimed to build an inclusive business focusing on low- and middle-income people who were either underserved or completely unserved by the ex...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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Siemens and Healthineers: Valuing the IPO
Harris, Robert S.; Holtz, PaulCase DARDEN-F-1913-EFinanceThis case covers the initial public offering (IPO) of the Siemens AG subsidiary Healthineers. The case offers the opportunity to discuss IPOs and to value the company. In contrast to “Healthineers: A Strategic IPO” (UVA-F-1881), which provides some base case valuation analysis, this version of the case is designed to be used when a primary teaching objective is to have students perform more of the analysis. The material is set in 2018, when CEO J...Starting at €8.20