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June 2025
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Clay Ridge Capital

By: William R. Kerr and Martin A. Sinozich

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May 2025
Supplement

Clay Ridge Capital

By: William R. Kerr and Martin A. Sinozich

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January 2023
Case

Clay Ridge Capital

By: Martin A. Sinozich and William R. Kerr

Kel Jackson, with the support of his young family, has been searching for a manufacturing business to purchase. After a long process, Kel had submitted a written offer to buy Sheetfab that matched his original conversation with the owner, but a broker Kel had never met... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry

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February 2015
Teaching Note

Loki Capital Management

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble

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February 2004
Case

Succession Capital Corporation

In 2003, a small buyout company in Canada was deciding which company to purchase next. This case explores the challenges facing a young entrepreneur in the process of selecting a new acquisition when financial and human resources are constrained. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Canada

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February 2004 (Revised November 2012)
Exercise

Capital Investment Analysis

By: Dwight B. Crane and Josh Lerner

Teaches techniques of evaluating investment alternatives. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Investment Return

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November 1990 (Revised July 1992)
Case

Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

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23 Mar 2009
News

American Capitalism Besieged

Sep 2011 - 2011
Interview

Capitalism at Risk

By: Lynn S. Paine and Herman B. Leonard

Keywords: Economic Systems

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February 2006
Case

Adams Capital Management: Fund IV

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

The partners of Adams Capital Management must decide whether to start their fourth fund in early 2006 or to hold off until they have realized more exits from the earlier funds and have proved the viability of a recent change in strategy. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Business Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

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05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

November 2011
Teaching Note

Abraaj Capital (TN)

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Capital

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22 Jan 2020
News

Making Stakeholder Capitalism a Reality

11 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Managers and Market Capitalism

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

Capital Management, a $20 billion family of mutual funds, she is also a board member of other for-profit and nonprofit entities. Among them is the Global Heritage Fund, which Cohen chairs, an organization that advises Third World... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Jun 2000
News

Capturing Human Capital

corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce View Details