Eli Lilly: A Strategy for Developing Companies
What strategy would lead Eli Lilly on a course that would meet both its social enterprise and its revenue goals?
Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage
This note uses the framework of a Value-based strategy model to discuss how a company can attain sustainable and superior profits.
The Sports Museum of America
This two-part, multi-media case discusses the proposal of a for-profit sports museum in New York City. As with most early stage businesses this venture requires raising equity capital to support the development and implementation of the concept. What are the important variables to evaluate to ascertain whether this proposed new business will provide attractive returns for new equity investors?
Getting in Tune: VentureMath
Sergeant, Pepper & Co., a New York-based venture capital firm, is considering investing in a start-up jewelry retailer which sells products named after music legends. As part of their financial analysis, the venture firm needs to perform a variety of sensitivity analyses to better understand the rewards of different funding structures and valuations.
The Human Transporter
In December 2001 inventor Dean Kamen launched an innovative human transporter called the Segway. In 2009, Kamen continued to seek a plan which would enable Segway to attain his original vision of creating a new urban transportation machine that would transform the world.
Ryanair
Ryanair, a newly established, low-fare airline servicing Ireland and the UK, must compete with established carriers and develop marketing strategies that will ensure profitability.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.: A Great Deal, or Room for Improvement in a Bid by a Strategic Acquiror
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. had recently agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Bain Capital Partners LLC. Jacqueline Barbieri, founder and managing principal of B&H Advisors, LLC, must perform a valuation, taking into account the terms of the signed merger agreement, to determine whether she should suggest that one of her clients make a competing bid for Bright Horizons.
ElectroMagnetic Surveys A/S
Statoil, the Norwegian state oil company, sponsors considerable research and development of such technologies and then creates new enterprises to commercialize these technologies.