Search Funds & Entrepreneurial Acquisitions

Auteur

Jan Simon is the Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital Partners and the Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School.His research on decision-making in hedge funds and their contribution to systemic risk has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Network Theory in Finance and the British Journal of Management. It has also been discussed in the press by Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial News, Financial Times, The Hedge Fund Journal, and SCOPE. Findings were presented at the Bank of England, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Oxford University, andUniversité de Paris.His notes and case studies, some pertaining to search funds and entrepreneurial acquisitions, are published by IESE Publishing.

Texte du rabat

In the mid-eighties, a group of enterprising and industrious MBA students at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business pioneered an experiment which today we call "Search Funds." Captained and inspired by visionary Leader Irv Grousbeck, they designed a track that allowed them to acquire a company, become its CEO, and, if well executed, also be its largest shareholder. Supported by strong boards and a solid process, it turned an inexperienced entrepreneur into a successful business leader. In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School, presents a best-practices-based roadmap for searchers, acquisition entrepreneurs, investors and board members. Drawing on generous contributions from the search fund community as well as his own experience, he sheds light on how this community converted $1.4 billion of investments into $8.7 billion, with $1.8 billion going to the entrepreneurs.