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Harris Seafoods, Inc. (Spanish version)
Fruhan, William E.; Sahlman, William A.Case HBS-205S07FinancePresents data relevant to a major capital expenditure--the construction of a shrimp plant. Designed to test student's ability to identify relevant cash flows, to estimate the cost of capital, and to decide whether or not to invest.Starting at €8.20
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El Valor de los Arboles
Ruback, Richard S.; Luchs, Kathleen S.Case HBS-217S02FinanceDescribe dos estrategias alternativas de corte de árboles. La primera es para cortar todos los árboles que son al menos 12 pulgadas de diámetro a la altura del pecho. El segundo es para diluir el bosque cortando árboles menos deseables inmediatamente y la cosecha de los árboles de cultivo más tarde. La información de caso presenta a los estudiantes para estimar los flujos de efectivo para cada alternativa. Después de estimar el dinero correspondi...Starting at €8.20
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Nantero (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, Dan; Perkins, CarolineCase HBS-818S13FinancePara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. Este caso describe una decisión confrontar el fundador de Nantero, una compañía de desarrollo de una nueva tecnología de semiconductores. La compañía necesita recaudar capital de riesgo adicional. Los inversores potenciales han compitiendo visiones para la empresa, y su modelo de negocio. Algunos inversores quieren la compañía para licenciar su tecnología a empresas de semi...Starting at €8.20
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Texas Pacific Group--J. Crew
Roberts, Michael J.; Sahlman, William A.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-808017-EFinanceDescribes Texas Pacific Group's purchase and operation of J. Crew, the catalog and specialty clothing retailer. Highlights the issues involved in financing such a transaction, and then focuses on the operational challenges of turning around the business, and of TPG's intensive involvement in the running of the business. Details the improvements in the business, and then the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment comi...Starting at €8.20
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-809004-EFinanceBy 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on later-stage investments?...Starting at €8.20
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Nantero
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, Dan; Perkins, CarolineCase HBS-809031-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some investors want the company to license its technology to semiconductor companies. Others want the company to becom...Starting at €8.20
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A Simple Free Cash Flow Valuation Model
Sahlman, William A.Case HBS-814027-EFinanceExplores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio, and the leverage ratio. Helps students address some of the following issues: 1) What is the definition of cash flow? 2) What effects do changes in the discount rate have on valuati...Starting at €8.20
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Entrepreneurial Finance Problem Set
Nanda, Ramana; Sahlman, William A.; White, RobertCase HBS-817037-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Zoots--Financing Growth (A)
Roberts, Michael J.; Sahlman, William A.; Krasnow, ToddCase HBS-807139-EFinanceTraces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful Staples chain, the company raises a very large amount of capital without fully proving its business model, and by 2006 is in need of yet more funding. Pushes students to dissect the business model and current operations--and their financial performance--and figure out what went wrong initial...Starting at €8.20
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NovoCure Ltd.
Sahlman, William A.; Greene Flaherty, SarahCase HBS-810045-EFinanceVenture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The therapy has shown significant efficacy with no side effects after five years of testing in human patients. Doyle believes Novo...Starting at €8.20