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Legacy Partners
Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021. The company, based in Sacramento CA, was a compounding pharmacy serving Total Parenteral Nutrition ("TPN") patients nationwide. Holbrook and Pulsipher generally believed it was best to not make big changes during the first year after an acquisition. However, two competitors had recently exited their TPN businesses, creating an opportunity for Nutrishare to add a significant number of new clients. This opportunity would grow the business by about a quarter which would immediately reverse the stagnant client count and have a substantial impact on value. However, it would also add stresses on the Company to serve the new clients. -
Dumbarton Bearing Supply, LLC: Recognizing Real Options, Student Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet Supplement for Teaching Note UV8706 -
How Digitally Mature Is Your Finance Office?
What separates digital finance leaders from the laggards? How can CFOs better use advanced analytics to their advantage? This article offers a framework to help CFOs assess the finance office's current level of data sophistication and discusses the key areas finance teams should focus on to improve their analytics capabilities. -
WTI: Leading in the Venture Debt Market
This case provides an overview of the venture debt industry with a focus on WTI, a leading venture debt provider. The case follows Maurice Werdegar, the Chairman of WTI, as he considers offering a new loan and amending an existing loan. -
Royal Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Mining and Climate Change
In its effort to fight climate change, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) established its RBC Climate Blueprint, an enterprise strategy to accelerate clean economic growth and support its clients in a socially inclusive transition to net-zero. RBC holds itself accountable to this plan through its Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance Report, which quantifies the bank’s climate change actions. Any business activities that contradict RBC’s strategy may adversely impact the bank’s reputation. This study was carried out in response to a strategic decision-making requirement from RBC regarding Bitcoin and new technology investment. The case discusses the definition of cryptocurrency, the Bitcoin mining process, energy consumption associated with the mining procedure, and the impact of Bitcoin mining on climate change. After thoroughly describing and analyzing each topic, we will draw conclusions about the effects of Bitcoin mining energy consumption on climate change. At the end of the study, we will be able to answer this question: What environment-related reputational risk might RBC face if the bank were to support products and services around Bitcoin?<br><br>The Ivey Business School gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Pierre Lapointe, MBA ’83, in the development of this case. -
Royal Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Mining and Climate Change - Instructor Spreadsheet Energy Cost
Instructor Spreadsheet to accompany product W33552. -
Royal Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Mining and Climate Change - Instructor Spreadsheet Operational
Instructor Spreadsheet to accompany product no. W33552. -
Royal Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Mining and Climate Change - Student Spreadsheet Energy Cost
Student Spreadsheet to accompany product no. W33551. -
Royal Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Mining and Climate Change - Student Spreadsheet Operational
Student Spreadsheet to accompany product no. W33551. -
Herbo Drugs & Pharmaceuticals: Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting
Faraaz Usmani, heir to the family-owned Herbo Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, a small private Unani pharmaceutical company in Prayagraj, India, planned to expand the company’s business to other states to cover most parts of India. Before implementing this ambitious plan, Faraaz needed to conduct a feasibility study by applying some popular capital budgeting tools such as net present value, internal rate of return, and profitability index. He first projected the cash flows for ten years with an initial investment of ₹6.5 million financed with 80 per cent equity and 20 per cent debt. He expected sales to grow by 15 per cent annually for the next five years, 10 per cent from year 6 to year 10, and a perpetual growth rate of 5 per cent afterward. Faraaz understood that the estimation of the cost of capital was a key step in his analysis. He discovered that finding the cost of equity for a private firm was tricky because stock return information was not available to estimate beta. The case introduces the basics of cost of capital (i.e., weighted average cost of capital) and capital budgeting. It focuses on the details of how to estimate the cost of equity for a private firm. -
Herbo Drugs & Pharmaceuticals: Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting - Student Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet to accompany product no. W34060. -
Herbo Drugs & Pharmaceuticals: Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting - Instructor Spreadsheet
Instructor Spreadsheet to accompany product no. W34061. -
United Overseas Bank: Branch Crowd Analytics
This case focuses on the use of modern data analytics to alleviate crowding at the branches of United Overseas Bank, a full-service bank headquartered in Singapore. The case is set in 2020 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 global pandemic when vaccines were not yet available and social distancing was a key tool in the fight against the spread of the disease. How should the bank develop and deploy predictive analytics to accurately anticipate future branch crowds? How should the bank trade off key design considerations? -
21st Century Investing: The Power of Capital
Today's emerging markets bear limited resemblance to the markets of decades ago. The boom-busts of the 20th century have been replaced with more sophisticated central bank policies and diversified industry bases. Everywhere from China to India to Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates, a growing consumer class has driven domestics and fueled these markets, replacing the dependence on commodities that we saw two decades ago. Emerging markets expert Asha Mehta describes three mega-themes that are transforming the world's emerging markets, creating a new investing paradigm. As these markets mature, she argues, the flow of capital will benefit the investors who invest in them early. -
The Chennai Angels Network
The case is intended to help the student learn about an important source of startup funding in India, namely, angels. It also provides an opportunity to learn about how organisations emerge - in this instance angel networks - to solve economic problems that economic agents in a market face. The note also provides an overview of how angel networks manage their investment activity. Finally, it also brings out the strategic challenges faced by players in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. -
Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun, Spreadsheet Supplement
Spreadsheet supplement for HBS Case No. 219-009. -
Tata Motors: The Dividend Dilemma
Tata Motors Limited (Tata Motors), an Indian automobile major with a consolidated annual turnover of more than ₹2,497 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2021, was struggling to turn profitable and reinstate dividend payments to its investors. The case discusses the dividend policy of Tata Motors, comparing it with the dividend policies of the company’s peers and examining its relevance to the investor community at large. With Tata Motors’ long history as a dividend-paying company, its sudden withdrawal of dividends in FY 2016, with no payouts in the following five years, has made investors jittery. The company was working on the turnaround plan and internal reorganization that would allow it to provide a differentiated focus on its three business verticals—the commercial vehicle segment, the passenger vehicle segment, and the electric vehicle segment. Tata Motors had already communicated its decision to conserve cash to reduce its leverage and become debt-free by FY 2024. However, with an increase in pressure from a certain section of investors, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chair of Tata Motors, was considering when to reinstate dividends. What signal would doing so send to the market? Would the ownership structure of the company have an impact on its dividend policy? Did the company’s cash flows support the dividend payment at this stage? -
Tata Motors: The Dividend Dilemma - Student Spreadsheet
Student spreadsheet to accompany Ivey product W30443. -
Tata Motors: The Dividend Dilemma
Tata Motors Limited (Tata Motors), an Indian automobile major with a consolidated annual turnover of more than ₹2,497 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2021, was struggling to turn profitable and reinstate dividend payments to its investors. The case discusses the dividend policy of Tata Motors, comparing it with the dividend policies of the company's peers and examining its relevance to the investor community at large. With Tata Motors' long history as a dividend-paying company, its sudden withdrawal of dividends in FY 2016, with no payouts in the following five years, has made investors jittery. The company was working on the turnaround plan and internal reorganization that would allow it to provide a differentiated focus on its three business verticals-the commercial vehicle segment, the passenger vehicle segment, and the electric vehicle segment. Tata Motors had already communicated its decision to conserve cash to reduce its leverage and become debt-free by FY 2024. However, with an increase in pressure from a certain section of investors, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chair of Tata Motors, was considering when to reinstate dividends. What signal would doing so send to the market? Would the ownership structure of the company have an impact on its dividend policy? Did the company's cash flows support the dividend payment at this stage? -
Tata Motors: The Dividend Dilemma, Student Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet Supplement for Case W30443