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Canon Inc.: Ambitious Acquisitions in the Video Surveillance Market - Teaching Note
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Andrew Jiro PoplawskiTeaching Note IVEY-8B16M101-EStrategyTeaching Note for product 9B16M101.Starting at €0.00
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Groupe PSA: Acquisition of Opel/Vauxhall—From Turnaround to Profitable Growth
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Yacine LahmaCase IVEY-9B18M151-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2017, the French automaker Groupe PSA (PSA) agreed to buy loss-making Opel/Vauxhall units from General Motors Company. PSA had just recovered one year earlier from losses it had sustained since the global financial crisis. With the recovery, PSA had launched a new strategic plan with aggressive goals for sustainable profitable growth. However, PSA’s sales were continuing to drop in the important Chinese market due to fierce competition, and th...Starting at €8.20
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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group: The Agile Transformation
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Teeta ErikateCase IVEY-9B20M006-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn May 2019, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) had paused rapid expansion of its massive agile organizational transformation, trying to make the existing program work better. ANZ announced the decision to take the bank agile in May 2017, moving from the traditional command-and-control, risk-based, and process-driven hierarchy to collaborative teamwork. Such decisions came after not only competitive pressures from the disruptive entry ...Starting at €8.20
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Executive Compensation at Talent Partners
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211073-EFinanceTalent Partners' CEO was very successful at growing the business and establishing its leadership position. He was compensated with a mix of salary and options and he did not own any equity in the company. The options were set so that if Talent Partners achieved its financial plan over the next five years, about half of his total compensation would come from the options.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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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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Nashton Partners and its Search Fund Process
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-212006-EFinanceNashton Partners was a search fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search fund structure, the two-year search, andStarting 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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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