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Busse Place (B): Hannah's Dilemma

By: Arthur I. Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.
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Abstract

Marisa Sanchez, a new Associate at Douglas Private Equity Advisors, confronts a dilemma when she is asked by a Senior Vice President (SVP) to do due diligence on a deal he wants to bring before the investment committee which will include the SVP, Douglas' owner and founder and others. The meeting is timed just before annual bonus season. Marisa's due diligence findings indicate that her boss, the SVP, has significantly misrepresented the market information and that the pricing should be considerably less than he is advocating. He asks her to manipulate the numbers, "to make the numbers work." She has to decide, when asked at the committee meeting, what to say and how.

Keywords

Real Estate; Financial Analysis; Property; Finance; Analysis; Ethics; Real Estate Industry; United States

Citation

Segel, Arthur I., and John H. Vogel, Jr. "Busse Place (B): Hannah's Dilemma." Harvard Business School Supplement 214-104, June 2014. (Revised May 2020.)
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