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Schill, Michael J.

An Introduction to Project Finance: The Partitioning of Cash Flow

Harris, Robert S. ; Schill, Michael J.

F-2106 | Published May 27, 2025 | 5 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

A standard approach to business valuation is to value the total cash flows that the business is expected to provide to all investors, but when the implications of financing decisions take center stage... Read More

Management of Financial Policy Decisions: Capital Structure Policy (SPANISH)

Schill, Michael J.

F-2111 | Published April 10, 2025 | 18 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This is a Spanish translation of the April 4, 2016 version of UVA-F-1743. This technical note provides an overview of capital structure policy. Through a series of hypothetical situations and real-wor... Read More

Common Wealth Crush: Financing a Vision

Schill, Michael J. ; Ibiloye, Fehintoluwa

F-2090 | Published October 21, 2024 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the financing decisions and valuation of a start-up venture, Common Wealth Crush Co. (CWC), that seeks to support wine production in central Virginia by centralizing processing faci... Read More

Bond Prices and Interest-Rate Risk

Tomio, Davide ; Schill, Michael J.

F-2075 | Published May 21, 2024 | 10 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

In this note, we cover how bond prices change as yields change. Students are shown that the price of a bond is a function of its promised payments and the prevailing required rate of return by investo... Read More

An Introduction to Equity Residual Cash Flow

Schill, Michael J.

F-2070 | Published May 01, 2024 | 9 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This technical note introduces the concept of equity cash flow or equity residual cash flow. The note provides an explicit comparison between free cash flow and equity residual cash flow in the contex... Read More

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Finance People

Schill, Michael J.

F-2023 | Published October 11, 2023 | 346 pages Book

Collection: Darden School of Business

Finance People is designed to give new finance students and practitioners a firm footing in the foundational concepts of finance. With straightforward language and vocabulary definitions, practical ea... Read More

Bizzy Coffee

Schill, Michael J.

F-2047 | Published August 15, 2023 | 14 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case explores the common cash-flow challenges that start-up businesses face as they straddle the conflicting objectives of business growth and cash preservation. In August 2022, Alex French, the ... Read More

Shamrock Capital: Pricing the Masters of Taylor Swift

Schill, Michael J. ; Schofield, Kelcie

F-2050 | Published July 28, 2023 | 21 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines a 2020 pricing decision for the master recordings of Taylor Swift’s first six albums in consideration of a sale of the recordings by music executive Scooter Braun to Shamrock Capita... Read More

Euroland Foods 2024

Schill, Michael J. ; Bruner, Robert F. ; Opitz, Casey S.

F-2016 | Published May 18, 2022 | 12 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Facing strong pressure from investors to improve financial performance and preserve capital, senior management at Euroland Foods must select which projects to fund across a slate of major investment p... Read More

LVMH: The Tiffany Acquisition

Schill, Michael J. ; Saine, Caroline

F-2013 | Published April 22, 2022 | 27 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case set considers the acquisition of American jewelry icon Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany) by French luxury goods manufacturer LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH). While this case can effectively be... Read More

Tiffany & Co.: The LVMH Proposal and LVMH: The Tiffany Acquisition -- Merger Negotiation Application (SIMULATION)

Schill, Michael J.

F-2015 | Published April 22, 2022 | 1 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The cases “Tiffany & Co.: The LVMH Proposal” (UVA-F-2012) and “LVMH: The Tiffany Acquisition” (UVA-F-2013) serve as two sides of a merger negotiation exercise set in October 2019. Students are asked... Read More

Tiffany & Co.: The LVMH Proposal

Schill, Michael J. ; Saine, Caroline

F-2012 | Published April 22, 2022 | 26 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case set considers the acquisition of American jewelry icon Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany) by French luxury goods manufacturer LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH). While this case can effectively be... Read More

Carly's Car Clinic

Schill, Michael J.

F-2007 | Published February 03, 2022 | 3 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This short fictional case considers an investment decision in a new business concept, Carly’s Car Clinic. The investment choice entails two similar stores with correlated outcomes and an option to seq... Read More

Britannia Chemicals PLC (B): The Merseyside and Antwerp Projects

Schill, Michael J. ; Bruner, Robert F. ; McTigue, Frank H.

F-1976 | Published June 21, 2021 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Britannia Chemicals was under pressure from investors to improve its financial performance because of the accumulation of the firm’s common shares by a well-known corporate raider. Earnings had fallen... Read More

Britannia Chemicals PLC (A): The Merseyside Project

Bruner, Robert F. ; Schill, Michael J.

F-1906 | Published February 16, 2021 | 8 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Britannia Chemicals was under pressure from investors to improve its financial performance because of the accumulation of the firm’s common shares by a well-known corporate raider. Earnings had fallen... Read More

Understanding Risk: Systemic versus Idiosyncratic

Schill, Michael J.

F-1973 | Published January 21, 2021 | 8 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Using the fictional situation of two brothers facing the challenge of managing a commodity business in central Africa, this note explores different metrics for risk and related considerations for inve... Read More

Calabash Community Hospital

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F-1946 | Published April 15, 2020 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case considers a $10 million investment in an outpatient surgery center by a not-for-profit community hospital in rural South Carolina. A member of the purchasing department, R. D. Scott, is inv... Read More

Nelson Nurseries

Schill, Michael J.

F-1944 | Published March 27, 2020 | 4 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case captures the problems concerning cash flow and working-capital management typical of small, growing businesses. At the end of 2020, Roger and Christine Barton have completed their third year... Read More

The Profitability Index

Schill, Michael J.

F-1945 | Published March 26, 2020 | 2 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

The well-known net present value (NPV) rule advocates accepting all investment projects that have a positive NPV. The NPV rule makes economic sense since positive-NPV projects are expected to create e... Read More

Trade Credit

Schill, Michael J.

F-1941 | Published March 26, 2020 | 8 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

When businesses deliver a product or service, they often forgo receiving immediate cash payment and allow their customers to pay later. Such payment terms are called trade credit. While trade credit f... Read More

Bob's Baloney

Schill, Michael J.

F-1942 | Published March 18, 2020 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the financial performance of Bob’s Baloney, a leader in the ultrapremium bologna market. While the business appears to be doing well with respect to most of its stakeholders, its la... Read More

Credit Analysis Basics

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F-1898 | Published March 09, 2020 | 11 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Capital markets facilitate the appropriate exchange of money. For lenders and borrowers, the interest rate is the primary pricing mechanism that markets use in this exchange. For borrowers deemed to h... Read More

Asset Price Bubbles

Bruner, Robert F. ; Schill, Michael J.

F-1919 | Published November 07, 2019 | 15 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Market lore recounts a host of fabled asset price bubbles: the Dutch tulip bubble of the 1630s, the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles of 1720, the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, and the global real... Read More

Mary Washington Pediatrics

Schill, Michael J.

F-1877 | Published March 27, 2019 | 5 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case follows the 2017 acquisition valuation of Mary Washington Pediatrics in Northern Virginia by two pediatricians, Natalia Juarez and Kirsten Atwood. The case provides a simple context for disc... Read More

A Primer on Risk-Free Bonds

Schill, Michael ; Xu, Ting

F-1861 | Published February 01, 2019 | 14 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note explores the first principles of pricing financial contracts. Debt contracts go by many names, but the term bond is used in this note to denote any market-traded debt contract. The note is ... Read More

Darden Capital Management: The Cavalier Fund

Schill, Michael J.

F-1853 | Published October 04, 2018 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the investment strategy decisions of a student portfolio management team in April 2017. The case is designed to provide a context for an introduction to the intuition of the Capital... Read More

Chestnut Foods (RUSSIAN)

Schill, Michael J. ; Stevenson, Donald

F-1999 | Published November 08, 2017 | 13 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This is a Russian translation of the Nov. 15, 2017 version of UVA F-1736. After a period of poor stock-market performance, conglomerate Chestnut Foods (Chestnut) faces the acquisition of its stock by ... Read More

Guna Fibres, Ltd. (RUSSIAN)

Schill, Michael J. ; Bruner, Robert F. ; Pham, Thien T.

F-1998 | Published November 08, 2017 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This is a Russian translation of the Feb. 1, 2017 version of UVA-F-1687. The chief executive of a small yarn-production company in India must resolve an unexpected cash shortage. The task for the stud... Read More

The Cost of Capital: Principles and Practice (RUSSIAN)

Schill, Michael J.

F-2001 | Published November 08, 2017 | 12 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This is a Russian translation of the August 13, 2015 version of UVA-F-1710. This technical note provides a student primer of firm cost of capital from a conceptual and application perspective. The not... Read More

An Introduction to Zero-Coupon Risk-Free Bonds

Schill, Michael J.

F-1799 | Published July 14, 2017 | 3 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note introduces students to the basics of bonds and the time value of money through the simplest of financial contracts?the zero-coupon risk-free bond contract. The note covers the concepts of pr... Read More

The Battle for Value, 2016: FedEx Corp. versus United Parcel Service, Inc.

Schill, Michael J. ; Craddock, Jenny

F-1773 | Published February 13, 2017 | 17 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case invites students to assess the financial performance of FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service, Inc., two firms that have long competed for dominance in the overnight delivery industry. The c... Read More

Royal Mail plc: Cost of Capital

Schill, Michael J.

F-1774 | Published January 27, 2017 | 12 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the cost of capital estimation for British postal service company Royal Mail plc in 2015—a time when company managers and government regulators were adjusting to private ownership a... Read More

Whole Foods Market: The Deutsche Bank Report

Schill, Michael J. ; Blankenship, Chris

F-1776 | Published January 27, 2017 | 13 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case follows the financial-statement forecasting decisions of a Deutsche Bank research analyst for the natural and organic retailer Whole Foods Market in May 2014. Students evaluate the associate... Read More

Ferrari: The 2015 Initial Public Offering

Schill, Michael J. ; Craddock, Jenny

F-1775 | Published January 11, 2017 | 20 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the October 2015 initial public offering pricing decision for legendary Italian sports car company Ferrari by Fiat Chrysler management. Students are invited to model the value of F... Read More

Carter International

Schill, Michael J.

F-1771 | Published December 21, 2016 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case considers the 2016 acquisition of U.S. gambling concern Hope Enterprises by a major hotel company, Carter International (Carter). It is a relatively straightforward exercise in valuing a pot... Read More

Financial Management: An Introduction

Schill, Michael J.

F-1742 | Published November 14, 2016 | 5 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This technical note provides an overview of Financial Management. It is intended as a note to accompany the opening session of case-based course in corporate finance or financial management, as a way ... Read More

Fonderia del Piemonte S.p.A.

Bruner, Robert F. ; Schill, Michael J.

F-1764 | Published October 21, 2016 | 3 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The managing director of this specialty foundry must decide whether to approve a major investment to automate part of her plant's production process. The case presents information sufficient to build ... Read More

EMI Group PLC (SPANISH)

Schill, Michael J. ; Shumadine, Elizabeth

F-1818 | Published January 27, 2016 | 19 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This is a Spanish translation of the Mar. 13, 2009 version of UVA-F-1552. This case examines the April 2007 decision of British music company EMI to suspend its annual dividend as the company strugg... Read More

Management of Financial Policy Decisions: Capital Structure Policy

Schill, Michael J.

F-1743 | Published December 04, 2015 | 17 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This technical note provides an overview of capital structure policy. Through a series of hypothetical situations and real-world examples, students will gain an understanding of the benefits and costs... Read More

Chestnut Foods (A)

Schill, Michael J. ; Stevenson, Donald

F-1736 | Published August 06, 2015 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

After a period of poor stock-market performance, conglomerate Chestnut Foods (Chestnut) faces the acquisition of its stock by an activist investor. The new investor demands the sale of Chestnut’s high... Read More

Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

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F-1728 | Published January 16, 2015 | 11 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This technical note outlines the principles and application of proper discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis in the context of evaluating business investment projects. The note provides several specific ... Read More

The Cost of Capital: Principles and Practice

Schill, Michael J.

F-1710 | Published February 07, 2014 | 9 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This technical note provides a student primer of firm cost of capital from a conceptual and application perspective. The note provides student intuition on the traditional theory of cost of debt, cost... Read More

Business Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions

Schill, Michael J. ; Loutskina, Elena

F-1699 | Published October 02, 2013 | 11 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note discusses valuation in the context of business mergers and acquisitions. It builds on standard methods of business valuation to consider the unique questions arising in a merger or acquisiti... Read More

DAZZ Manufacturing Company

Weiss, Elliott N. ; Goldberg, Rebecca ; Schill, Michael J.

OM-1503 | Published August 27, 2013 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

While maintaining Lean manufacturing standards, the plant manager for the Clarksburg, Virginia, location of a manufacturer of coated abrasives must evaluate a capital investment of $8 million. The inv... Read More

Cavalier Hospital

Schill, Michael J. ; Yount, Kenan

F-1696 | Published June 11, 2013 | 14 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

A midsize community hospital must choose a strategy to compete with an expanding regional rival. The strategy, focused on acquiring patient volume, includes expanding investment into integrated care, ... Read More

American Greetings

Schill, Michael J.

F-1693 | Published March 28, 2013 | 14 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case is used in Darden's FY Finance course, but it would be appropriate in any course introducing firm valuation. The case examines the 2012 decision by American Greetings (AG) to repurchase shar... Read More

M&M Pizza

Schill, Michael J.

F-1691 | Published March 11, 2013 | 3 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case is used in Darden's core first year finance course. The exercise introduces in a fun way the fundamentals of financial policy that are the foundation of corporate finance. It takes the textb... Read More

Guna Fibres, Ltd.

Schill, Michael J. ; Bruner, Robert F. ; Pham, Thien T.

F-1687 | Published February 04, 2013 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The chief executive of a small yarn-production company in India must resolve an unexpected cash shortage. The task for the student is to evaluate the causes of this shortage (using a completed “base-c... Read More

The Misadventures of Daring Dave: Leverage and Investment Returns

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F-1686 | Published January 23, 2013 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Daring Dave is a focused niche case used in Darden's second-year elective "Securities Markets in Action" where students need to understand the power and impact of leverage and margin requirements on i... Read More

Business Valuation: Standard Approaches and Applications

Schill, Michael J.

F-1684 | Published January 22, 2013 | 14 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note provides an introduction to the standard approaches used to value businesses from the perspective of the investor (e.g., discounted cash flow, market multiples). Each approach is illustrated... Read More

The Procter & Gamble Company: Investment in Crest Whitestrips Advanced Seal

Schill, Michael J. ; Lentz, Daniel

F-1670 | Published July 27, 2012 | 12 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

A financial analyst for Procter & Gamble must report on the prospects and implications of a new teeth-whitening product. Beyond a realistic profit-and-loss forecast and baseline net present value, he ... Read More

Ben & Jerry's Homemade: The Unilever Scoop

Allayannis, Yiorgos (George) ; Schill, Michael J.

F-1656 | Published August 18, 2011 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

A follow up for Ben & Jerry's Homemade (UVA-F-1364), this case is suitable for MBA, EMBA, and GEMBA programs, and could work as a stand-alone undergraduate introduction to corporate finance and M&A or... Read More

Gellibrand Partners

Schill, Michael J.

F-1648 | Published June 07, 2011 | 3 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Given widening bid-ask spread for a target stock, a small Australian portfolio manager considers front-running the market makers by posting its own quotes inside the spread. Organized in a series of r... Read More

Roche Holding AG: Funding the Genentech Acquisition

Schill, Michael J. ; Durick, Brett ; Chambers, Drew

F-1645 | Published March 22, 2011 | 16 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the decision by the Swiss pharmaceutical Roche Holding AG (Roche) to offer a record $42 billion bond in February 2009. In light of a pending acquisition of US biotechnology leader G... Read More

Braintree Momentum Equity Fund

Schill, Michael J.

F-1619 | Published April 22, 2010 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case considers the viability of a momentum-oriented trading strategy in U.S. equities in 2006. The case, created for use in an investment course, provides both historical performance on the tradi... Read More

Rosetta Stone: Pricing the 2009 IPO

Schill, Michael J. ; Papireddy, Suprajj ; Adams, Tom ; Clough, Phil

F-1613 | Published December 21, 2009 | 21 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the April 2009 decision of Rosetta Stone management to price the initial public offering of Rosetta Stone stock during one of the most difficult periods in capital-raising history. ... Read More

Flinder Valves and Controls Inc.

Schill, Michael J.

F-1573 | Published November 17, 2008 | 14 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Set in May 2008, this case reflects the separate perspectives of chief executive officers Tom Eliot and Bill Flinder as they approach the negotiations of RSE International Corporation to acquire Flind... Read More

An Introduction to Technical Analysis

Schill, Michael J. ; Wada, Yosuke

F-1547 | Published September 19, 2008 | 10 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Technical stock analysis uses past prices and trading volume or both to predict future prices. A broad range of techniques such as chart analysis, moving averages, and other filters and oscillators ca... Read More

EMI Group PLC

Schill, Michael J. ; Shumadine, Elizabeth

F-1552 | Published September 02, 2008 | 19 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the April 2007 decision of British music company EMI to suspend its annual dividend as the company struggled to respond to the effect of digital audio distribution on its core busin... Read More

California Pizza Kitchen

Schill, Michael J. ; Shumadine, Elizabeth

F-1553 | Published September 02, 2008 | 16 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the question of financial leverage at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in July 2007. With a highly profitable business and an aversion to debt, CPK management is considering a debt-fi... Read More

Financial Theory Foundations

Schill, Michael J.

F-1548 | Published August 28, 2008 Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Financial theory seeks to explain how buyers and sellers in financial markets price contracts to exchange money across time and across risk profiles. Using rules of agent behavior, theory generates fi... Read More

Horniman Horticulture

Schill, Michael J.

F-1512 | Published August 18, 2006 | 4 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case captures the cash-flow and working-capital management problems typical of small, growing businesses. At the end of 2015, Bob and Maggie Brown have completed their third year of operating Hor... Read More

Blackhawk Urology

Schill, Michael J.

F-1507 | Published April 20, 2006 | 2 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case has been significantly revised to update its currency and to be more concise. In early 2015, two partners in an Oklahoma medical practice must reconcile their booming urology business with d... Read More

Business Performance Evaluation: Approaches for Thoughtful Forecasting

Schill, Michael J.

F-1490 | Published December 08, 2005 | 17 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note provides an introduction to financial ratios and financial forecasting. It examines principles in the art and science of thoughtful financial forecasting. In particular, it reviews the impor... Read More

Carrefour S.A.

Schill, Michael J.

F-1470 | Published June 08, 2005 | 12 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

In August 2002, the French retail giant Carrefour S.A. was considering alternative currencies for raising (euro) EUR750 million in the Eurobond market. Carrefour’s investment bankers believed that the... Read More

Darden Capital Management—The Monticello Fund

Schill, Michael J.

F-1464 | Published December 17, 2004 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The investment-strategy decisions of a Darden Capital Management student-portfolio management team in 2004 are examined. Case materials allow students to estimate CAPM-based expected returns using mar... Read More

A Primer on Valuing Simple Risk-Free Bonds

Schill, Michael J.

F-1443 | Published June 29, 2004 | 6 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note introduces students to the basics of bonds and the time value of money through a simple bond contract?the risk-free bond contract. The note covers the concepts of present value, yield to mat... Read More

JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation

Schill, Michael J. ; Owen, John ; Monroe, Garth ; Cui, Cheng

F-1415 | Published August 20, 2003 | 19 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the April 2002 decision of JetBlue management to price the initial public offering of JetBlue stock during one of the worst periods in airline history. The case outlines JetBlue's i... Read More

Value Line Publishing, October 2002

Schill, Michael J. ; Bruner, Robert F.

F-1403 | Published November 21, 2002 | 13 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case follows the performance review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong op... Read More

eBay, Inc. (B)

Schill, Michael J. ; Burnett, Jason

F-1358 | Published March 22, 2002 | 1 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the Fall 1998 decision of eBay management to proceed with the company's initial public offering during the quietest IPO market in twenty years. In Case A, eBay's Chief Financial Off... Read More

Ben & Jerry's Homemade

Schill, Michael J.

F-1364 | Published September 13, 2001 | 14 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines issues of asset control for Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., in light of the outstanding takeover offers by Chartwell Investments, Dreyer's Grand, Unilever, and Meadowbrook Lane Capita... Read More

Methods of Valuation for Mergers and Acquisitions

Chaplinsky, Susan ; Schill, Michael J. ; Doherty, Paul

F-1274 | Published March 03, 2000 | 18 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note addresses the methods used to value companies in an M&A (mergers and acquisitions) setting. It provides a detailed description of the discounted-cash-flow (DCF) approach and reviews other me... Read More

eBay, Inc. (A)

Schill, Michael J. ; Burnett, Jason

F-1357 | Published March 22, 1999 | 15 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the Fall 1998 decision of eBay management to proceed with the company's initial public offering during the quietest IPO market in twenty years. In Case A, eBay's Chief Financial Off... Read More

Bank of Tokyo

Bruner, Robert F. ; Schill, Michael J.

F-1018 | Published December 14, 1992 | 20 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

In October 1990, the president of this bank (the 9th largest in Japan and 15th largest in the world) must design a financing plan with which to bring the bank into compliance with the new worldwide Ba... Read More

Chestnut Foods (B)

Schill, Michael J. ; Briceno, Frank ; Stevenson, Donald

F-1974 | Published | 13 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

After a period of poor stock-market performance, conglomerate Chestnut Foods (Chestnut) faces the acquisition of its stock by an activist investor. The new investor demands the sale of Chestnut’s high... Read More

Teva Pharmaceuticals: Pricing the 2016 Bond Offering

Schill, Michael J. ; Yates, Adam

F-2028 | Published | 18 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the July 2016 decision by Israeli pharmaceutical Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited (Teva) to raise USD19.5 billion in cash through a multicurrency bond offering to finance an ... Read More

The House on Ramsay Street

Schill, Michael J. ; England, Staci ; Facer, Benjin ; Waters, Julian

F-2072 | Published | 7 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case considers a simple buy-versus-rent decision in the context of an individual family home. In mid-2022, the rise in real estate prices in the Washington, DC, metro area has resulted in a drama... Read More

Shamrock Capital: Pricing the Masters of Taylor Swift (SPANISH)

Schill, Michael J. ; Schofield, Kelcie

F-2112 | Published | 22 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This is a Spanish translation of the June 17, 2024 version of UVA-F-2050. This case examines a 2020 pricing decision for the master recordings of Taylor Swift’s first six albums in consideration of a ... Read More

The Leverage of L’Oréal

Schill, Michael J. ; Zouita, Kods

F-2109 | Published | 20 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case examines the question of financial leverage for French beauty and personal care company L’Oréal S.A. (L’Oréal) in October 2021. With an historical aversion to debt and a highly profitable b... Read More