Invest or Take: A Venture Capitalist's Ethical Dilemma
商品編號：9B16M057
出版日期：2016/05/30
再版日期：2016/05/27
商品來源：Ivey
商品主題：Entrepreneurship; General Management/Strategy; International Business
商品類型：Case (Gen Exp)
涵蓋議題：venture capital
難易度：4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度：10 頁
地域：Australia
產業：Finance and Insurance;
事件年度：2015
In May 2015, a managing partner in an Australian venture capital firm faced a major dilemma. As one of five partners, he held the deciding vote on whether his firm, KTN Capital, would take an entrepreneur’s idea for a solar-powered water filter and build a new company around it, or instead, invest in the entrepreneur’s company. The venture capital firm would not be doing anything illegal by taking the entrepreneur’s idea because the entrepreneur had not properly protected his intellectual property through patents, but the decision-maker was struggling with the ethics of that choice. To further complicate the situation, the entrepreneur was very difficult to deal with, and the investment firm was facing pressure from the fund’s investors to find investments that would yield big returns. The managing partner had many business and ethical considerations to factor into his decision, and it seemed there would be no easy choice.
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