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Browse abstracts and ordering information for case studies written and published by faculty at Stanford GSB.

For publicly available cases in this collection, Harvard Business Impact and Ivey Publishing distribute in North America, and The Case Centre and IESE Publishing in Europe.

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SM1B

Apple Computer in the Portable Computer Market (B)

Garth Saloner, Hank Chesbrough,
1993

John Medica, Director of Engineering for Portable Systems, stood proudly watching the launch of the new line of Apple portable computers. The PowerBook 170 and PowerBook 140 were built by his group, while the PowerBook 100 was built by Sony. The three…

BE9

Johnson Controls, Inc. - Automotive Systems Group: The Georgetown, Kentucky Plants

Paul Milgrom, John Roberts
1993
This case focuses on the auto supply industry and especially the relations between Johnson Controls (JCI) Automotive Systems Group’s Georgetown plant and its main customer, Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Toyota’s U.S. assembly plant, for which JCI supplies…
SM3

EDS Information Technology Outsourcing

Garth Saloner, Sanjeev Dheer, Brian Viard
1993
EDS, the leader in the information technology outsourcing industry, is facing substantial technological change and increasing competition (from IBM, Andersen Consulting and others). The issue is how EDS’ strategy should respond to these changes. To…
SM1A

Apple Computer in the Portable Computer Market (A)

Garth Saloner, Hank Chesbrough,
1992
John Medica settled into his chair in his new office. It was early April 1990, and he had recently been given his new assignment as Director of Portable Engineering for Apple Computer Corporation, a position which carried responsibility for all…
GS17

Steelmaking at POSCO (1992)

Hau Lee, Seungjin Whang
1992
POSCO is a large Korean integrated steelmaking company attempting to address a domestic demand for concrete five times the per capita US demand. The case highlights how POSCO controls its extended “quality” in multiple dimensions of product quality, cost…
BP265

Sony Corporation Enters the Entertainment Business

John Roberts
1990
Within two years from 1987 to 1989 Sony Corporation spent $7 billion to acquire CBS Records and Columbia Pictures Entertainment as “software” complements to its “hardware” base in consumer electronics. The case describes the company history the consumer…
OB9

Perfectly Pure Peabody's, A Case of Affirmative Action For Women

Myra Strober
1974
This case deals with the efforts of the Peabody Soap Company to effect affirmative action/equal employment opportunities for women and its problems in doing so. Specifically, it deals with the resignation, and the reasons for that resignation, of the…
OSA1

Red Brand Canners

Robert Wilson
1965
A simple example of a production planning problem amenable to analysis using linear programming.
2003

University Circle

Joel Peterson, A. Seiger

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