Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2012 version)

Peter Jepsen

by Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts and James M. Sharpe

Abstract

About to break bank covenants, Peter Jepsen has to deal with a contentious prior owner, improve profitability and staff appropriately all while maintaining credibility with his investors, in the furniture hardware company he has owned for less than a year.

Keywords: Acquisitions; bankruptcy; crisis management; entrepreneurial management; entrepreneurial finance; entrepreneurship; financial crisis; turnarounds; financial distress; negotiation; entrepreneurs; bank loan; Search Funds; liquidation; boards of directors; ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry; United States;

Citation:

Stevenson, Howard H., Michael J. Roberts, and James M. Sharpe. "Peter Jepsen." Harvard Business School Case 813-046, April 2013. (Revised from original July 2012 version.)