ETH31
William F. Meehan III, Charles G. Prober, Sheila Melvin
2021
Daryn Dodson (Stanford GSB, 2007) is managing director of Illumen Capital, a private equity, venture, and growth impact fund-of-funds that delivers evidence-based bias-reduction training and coaching to its portfolio of fund managers throughout the life…
ETH32
William F. Meehan III, Charles G. Prober, Sheila Melvin
2021
This is a fictional roleplay based on the experiences of Daryn Dodson, the managing director of Illumen Capital, an investment firm that aims to leverage its power as an investor to deliver capital combined with evidence-based bias-reduction training and…
E751
Robert Siegel, Jack Strabo
2021
This case details the challenges faced by Marc Jones as the CEO of Aeris Communications (Aeris), a privately owned software company that provided Internet of Things (IoT) networks and services to automotive, fleet, and health care customers. In the case…
E744
Robert Chess, Susan Golden, Jack Strabo
2021
This case follows the story of Suelin Chen in her career as the founder of Cake, a digital platform that provided “one-stop access” to a wide range of advance care and end-of-life planning products and services. The case highlights the societal…
SPM60
George Foster, Madie Chou, Gerzain Gutierrez, Dave Hoyt
2021
The United States Golf Association (USGA), operates among a network of associations and organizations in the game of golf. In the ecosystem of golf, there are many stakeholders, but no single governing body with overarching power to direct the action of…
OB106
Ulrike Schaede, Vanessa Ceia, Charles A. O’Reilly III
2021
In 2020, NEC focused on providing advanced IT, network, and data solutions, including cloud computing, AI and machine learning, Internet-of-Things platforms, and 5G networks as well as communication equipment installations. An award-winning company, NEC…
SM341
George Foster, Christy Johnson
2021
After graduating from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Ricardo Cervantes and Alfredo Livas, both from Mexico, decide to give themselves a year to try “to just go for it,” and do something on their own. After conducting researching, the two decide to…
E698
George Foster, Sheila Melvin
2020
Matt Barnard, CEO of the indoor vertical farming company Plenty, analyzed the agricultural supply chain in the United States and determined it had a four-pronged problem that people would pay to have solved: flavor, waste, environmental footprint, and…
E747
Graham Weaver, Imogen Mansfield
2020
The Ariel Investments case examines several managerial challenges that John Rogers, founder and Co-CEO, and Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO, have encountered at Ariel. The case provides an opportunity for students to plan and practice difficult conversations in a…
SM337
Robert Burgelman, Margot Sutherland
2020
Tim Höttges was at the outset of his seventh year as CEO of Deutsche Telekom (DT) in 2020. The company served more than 184 million mobile customers and had a presence in over 50 countries. Over the course of the previous 7 years, European…
E706
Stephen Ciesinski, Howard Rosen, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
Nova Pioneer was a private school system in South Africa and Kenya that offered preschool through secondary education for students ranging in age from 3 to 19. The earliest of Nova Pioneer’s precursors was Pioneer Academies, founded in South Africa by…
OB105
Charles O’Reilly, Sheila Melvin
2020
Intel established the Emerging Growth and Incubation (EGI) Group in 2018 with a charter to build a disruptive innovation engine. The EGI Group was seen as essential—even existential—for Intel to expand beyond its core business, find new ways to add…
E723
Steve Ciesinski, Howard Rosen, Jason Luther, Steven Truong
2020
In recent years the world has witnessed a growing wave of entrepreneurial ventures in developing economies. CB Insights reports as of March 2020, developing economies have produced 160 unicorns, equivalent to 35 percent of all unicorns in the world. Much…
E742
David Dodson, Imogen Mansfield
2020
Robin Mohapatra acquired NCFDD, a for-profit online professional development company serving universities and their faculty members, through a search fund. Based in Detroit, Michigan, NCFDD was growing rapidly and the company’s founder was keen to return…
OB107
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2020
For most of her career, Lucinda Stewart was a woman working in contexts—investment banking private equity, venture capital—largely dominated by men. Nonetheless, Stewart had been able, virtually from the beginning of her career, to obtain allies and…
ETH29
Cooper Raterink, Daniel Kharitinov, Zoe Weinberg, Jennifer Aaker
2020
2012 was dubbed the “Year of the MOOC” (Massive Open Online Course), but this mode of online learning has not really caught on. Why not? Student surveys show that these online learning platforms seem to be lacking in community, support, and academic…
F317A
Mike Harmon, Claudia Robles-Garcia
2020
This case explores the use of advanced out-of-court restructuring techniques from the perspective of a company facing looming debt maturities and an overleveraged capital structure. The decade that followed the global financial crisis was characterized…
SM335
Kevin A. Schulman, Kevin Ho
2020
Verily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships with academic research institutions, legacy life sciences companies, and hospitals and health…
E741
Robert Siegel, Jack Strabo
2020
The LiveRamp in 2020 case follows the story of Anneka Gupta as she rises from one of LiveRamp’s first product managers to president and head of products and platforms, responsible for overseeing the company’s product, engineering, marketing, and general…
E735
David Dodson, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
This case describes how Laura Franklin and William Colt conducted their entrepreneurial acquisition process. After the duo honed their method for contacting potential sellers, they found a company they were excited to close a deal with. Over the course of…
