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- July 1996
- Case
Bayside Controls, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch
Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing...
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Keywords:
Business Earnings;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Machinery and Machining;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Production;
Personal Development and Career;
Sales;
Aerospace Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Jennifer Kochman, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "Bayside Controls, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-004, July 1996.
- February 2017 (Revised January 2022)
- Supplement
Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B)
By: Kristin Mugford
Keywords:
Gaming;
Chapter 11;
Fraudulent Conveyance;
Apollo;
TPG;
Bankruptcy;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Private Equity;
Financial Management;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Negotiation;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Las Vegas
Mugford, Kristin. "Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 217-058, February 2017. (Revised January 2022.)
- July 2008
- Teaching Note
Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807073].
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 1985 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Precision Parts, Inc. (A)
Contains a description of a decision confronting two entrepreneurs in mid-1981. They are considering purchasing a small manufacturer of precision electromechanical parts. Among the issues in the case are the following: 1) Should Taylor and Grayson buy Precision Parts,...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Cost vs Benefits;
Investment Return;
Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Outcome or Result;
Manufacturing Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Precision Parts, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 285-131, March 1985. (Revised November 1988.)
- March 2003
- Background Note
A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model
By: Jay O. Light
Describes an Excel spreadsheet workbook that facilitates the analysis of AccuFlow, Inc.
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Keywords:
History;
Analytics and Data Science;
Cost of Capital;
Negotiation;
Capital;
Business Model;
Economic Systems;
Machinery and Machining;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Business Startups;
Equity
Light, Jay O. "A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model." Harvard Business School Background Note 203-089, March 2003.
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Harvard Business School Case 214-027 ISS A/S: The Buyout Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
case:http://hbr.org/search/613006-PDF-ENG Harrah's Entertainment Gompers, Paul A., Kristin Mugford, and J. Daniel KimHarvard Business School Case 213-054 This case examines the issues of establishing a capital structure for the leveraged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capital structure, board of directors, compensation schemes, etc.—which may or may not be appropriate for any particular asset, the firm can create an entirely different governance system that is ideally suited for the asset in question. Much the same way View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
its financial problems outside of bankruptcy court. One of the world's largest real-estate companies, Realogy was acquired in the spring of 2007 by the private equity firm Apollo Management in a $7 billion leveraged buyout. The View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
the industry and in China. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/909403 Harvard Business School Case 216-052 Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
firm performed extraordinarily well after a leveraged buyout in 2004 and recently executed a highly successful IPO. The company sources its goods primarily from Asia. It has strong brand recognition and...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Equity. It provides an opportunity to discuss a variety of issues related to leveraged buyouts including the process, the role of private equity, the incentives of the participants, the benefits to...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
design of our establishment-level analysis, our methods for distinguishing between leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and other private equity transactions, bankruptcy rates among firms acquired in LBOs, their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
Even though each of the businesses may be well-run, investors may place too low a value on the overall portfolio. Restructuring tools like tracking stock, stock buybacks, or leverage buyouts, can be used to reduce this kind of value gap....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806092 Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...? Harvard Business School Case 806-064 Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
(A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607156 Dressen (Abridged) (A) Harvard Business School Case 207-125 John Lynch, CEO of the Dressen Division of Westinghouse, was elated by the proposed View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 812-049 In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through the acquisition of two...
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Sean Silverthorne