Capstone project

Description of the Capstone Project
The capstone project includes two case studies that will provide you opportunities to look at hostile versus friendly tactics (one case for each tactic) used by active investors with the goal of amassing exorbitant sums of wealth. Specifically, each case study will examine the effect of an active investor on a firm targeted by the investor.
The case reports you will write for each case report should contain two sections. The background section of the active investor should discuss issues such as the relevant experience and expertise of the investor, the tactics used by the investor to pursue their investment program, sources of funds to pursue the active investment program, motivation for the pursuit of the investment program, personal loss if the value of the investment declines, evidence on past performance in pursuit of investment program, opportunities for self-dealing and evidence on these opportunities.
The analysis section should describe the effect of the active investor on the firm for each targeted firm that the student has been assigned. The analysis must be descriptive and evaluative. Each analysis should contain a discussion of the events in the investment program, an examination of the changes in the stock-prices, accounting performance, and other structures of the targeted firm, and a short conclusion.
Taken together, the two case reports will provide you opportunities to demonstrate your understanding of core concepts unpacked by class materials, integration of knowledge, complex problem solving and critical reasoning.
Gudline for this project
• For each case report, please include all of the seven sections described in the CalPERS vs. Whirlpool handout. Feel free to use your creativity with regard to how you present the material within each section. For example, you may prefer to use charts & graphs rather than tables to present your findings.
• Also, include a separate bibliography for the material, if any, used in the analysis of each assigned company and investor. The bibliography should not include the articles I gave you for your assigned company or the active investor. If no additional articles were used in your analysis, you do not need to include a bibliography. Use any format you wish for the bibliography. Please do not include the bibliography in the page count of each report.
• The report for each case should be at least 10 pages inclusive of the background section, the company analysis, and all exhibits/tables. So, for the two cases I have assigned, the total number of pages for the final reports should be at least 20 pages. If the report for each case is over 10 pages, that is fine.
• The section on the background of the investor must be at least 2 pages long and no more than 3 pages.
• Please do not include any exhibit used to calculate buy-and-hold returns in your case reports as this could run into numerous pages. It is ok, however, to include a small portion (no more than half a page) of this exhibit in your written reports.
• Both case reports should be combined into a single bundle and this bundle should be submitted via Canvas.