Investor Growth Capital: The Bredbandsbolaget Investment

By Claudia Zeisberger, David Piehl

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Reference 5653
Published 18 Dec 2009
Length 22 page(s)
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Telecommunications, Capital Markets

Bredbandsbolaget is a broadband provider that started in the midst of the dot-com bubble in the late 90s.

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France Telecom: The 2002 Financial Distress

By Herwig Langohr, Katerina Mirkos , Manisha Jain

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Reference 5343
Published 01 Jan 2007
Length 48 page(s)
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Telecommunications, Financial Services

This case focuses on the financial distress of France Telecom in 2002. It takes the student through the events that led to this crisis by focusing on the succession of credit rating actions from 1995 through 2004.

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Olivetti - Telecom Italia

By Ingo Walter, Nico Bonelli, Roy Smith

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Reference 4919
Published 01 Jan 2000
Length 22 page(s)
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Telecommunications, Wireless

The European market for corporate control has undergone rapid change. Together with attempted takeover of Thyssen by Krupp and their eventual merger, and the successful hostile takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone Airtouch, the takeover of Telecom Italia by Olivetti was a path-breaking event in this process.

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Re-organizing and Privatizing German State Enterprises (A)

By Douglas Webber, Mark Lehrer

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Reference 4689
Published 11 Jan 1997
Length 32 page(s)
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Telecommunications, Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

The case portrays the political process by which, in the first half of the 1990s, decisions were taken in Germany to re-organize and/or to privatize the state-owned airlines, telecommunications and railways enterprises.

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