BP256A
Robert Burgelman
2005
This cases focuses on the decision Intel’s top management faces at the end of 1984 whether or not to exit the DRAM (dynamic random access memory) business. It serves as a vehicle to discuss the evolution of Intel’s distinctive technological competencies…
SM155
Robert Burgelman, Jean-Bernard Rolland
2005
This case looks at the challenges and opportunities faced by SAP as it works to expand its position in the vertical market for financial services software. The German software company faced formidable challenges from competitors such as IBM and Oracle…
SM24D
Robert Burgelman, Ryan Kiskis, Shoshanna Stussy
2005
This case looks at the challenges and opportunities faced by Electronic Arts as it seeks to reinforce its leadership position in gaming making and digital entertainment. While a leader in PC and console games, EA is also interested in creating content…
SM132A
Adam Block, Robert Burgelman, Robert Siegel
2005
Shortly after entering business school at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr decided that they would start a business focused on the secondary market for event tickets. This case explores how Baker and Flurh launched…
SM132B
Adam Block, Robert Burgelman, Robert Siegel
2005
StubHub discovered that their strategy of acquiring customers through partnerships was not as cost effective as acquiring customers directly. The B cases discusses the hiring of a product manager and the changes that the managers makes to the company and…
OB53A
Glenn Carroll, Victoria Chang, Jennifer Chatman
2005
In June 1998, the senior management team at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream was figuring out how to address the most challenging problems ever faced by the company. Problems were wide ranging, including aggressive discounting by competitors, waning demand of…
SM92
William Barnett, Peter Lorentzen
2005
UFSoft was one of the first completely non-governmental domestic firms to succeed in China. Established in 1988 in Beijing, the firm began by making Chinese-language bookkeeping software and gradually moved toward much more complex enterprise resource…
SM126B
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2005
In late 2004, the future looked bright for Matrix Semiconductor Inc. The company had pioneered the design and development of three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits that enabled a new class of low-cost, high-density, non-volatile memory products…
SM140C
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2005
Bad sportsmanship used to mean a basketball player not acknowledging a foul or a tennis player saying a ball was out when it really hit the line. Recent examples of bad sportsmanship included activity that was substantially more serious. In 2001, the…
SM144
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2005
This case examines the attempt of the Grove Foundation’s Grove Scholars Program to promote access to vocational education and training as well as increase the esteem accorded to this education and career pathway. Initiated by former Intel chairman Andy…
SI72A
James Phills, Lyn Denend
2005
In the most basic sense, a market failure occurs whenever the production or allocation of goods or services by a market is suboptimal. On one hand, this can mean that the output, price, or distribution of products is either inefficient in the sense that…
SI25V
James A. Phills
2005
A non-profit organization founded in 1990, Innermotion was a dance company that presented performances based on themes related to incest and childhood sexual abuse as well as therapeutic workshops for survivors of such abuse. The organization consisted of…
SM140B
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2005
Bad sportsmanship used to mean a basketball player not acknowledging a foul or a tennis player saying a ball was out when it really hit the line. Recent examples of bad sportsmanship included activity that was substantially more serious. In 2001, the…
SM140A
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2005
Bad sportsmanship used to mean a basketball player not acknowledging a foul or a tennis player saying a ball was out when it really hit the line. Recent examples of bad sportsmanship included activity that was substantially more serious. In 2001, the…
OB51C
Brian Lowery, Lyn Denend
2005
Barbara Ladao was the chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Clinic (NHC), a nonprofit health center located in an ethnically diverse, underserved, and complicated community. At the time of the case, the interpersonal dynamics within the…
OB51B
Brian Lowery, Lyn Denend
2005
Barbara Ladao was the chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Clinic (NHC), a nonprofit health center located in an ethnically diverse, underserved, and complicated community. At the time of the case, the interpersonal dynamics within the…
OB51A
Brian Lowery, Lyn Denend
2005
Barbara Ladao was the chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Clinic (NHC), a nonprofit health center located in an ethnically diverse, underserved, and complicated community. At the time of the case, the interpersonal dynamics within the…
E182B
H. Grousbeck, Joel Peterson, Alex Tauber
2005
The case represents a series of four vignettes confronted by a fast growth start-up in the airline industry, JetBlue. The vignettes span the spectrum of operational issues - from how to confront employees situation to how to effectively manage a Board…
E182A
H. Grousbeck, Joel Peterson, Alex Tauber
2005
The case represents a series of four vignettes confronted by a fast growth start-up in the airline industry, JetBlue. The vignettes span the spectrum of operational issues – from how to confront employee situations to how to effectively manage a Board…
E193
H. Grousbeck, Joshua Spitzer
2005
“Wild Planet,” E-193, presents the entrepreneurial history of Danny Grossman and the toy company he founded, Wild Planet. The company abides by a prominent mission statement: “Wild Planet makes innovative products that appeal to both parents and kids….
GS44
Hau L. Lee, Seungjin Whang, David Hoyt
2005
In 2005, POSCO was the world’s most competitive steel company, and one of the largest. From its founding in 1967 in South Korea, it had built its success on technology, and on highly efficient, integrated steel plants. The business environment was…
E215
H. Grousbeck, Mike Harkey
2005
A search fund is a pool of capital raised to financially support the efforts of an entrepreneur, or a team of entrepreneurs, to locate a privately held company for acquisition. This study, as well as its predecessors in 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2003…
OB43 Condensed
David Caldwell, Davina Drabkin, Charles O'Reilly III, Robert Pearl
2004
Richard Townsend has recently been elected CEO of Liberty Medical Foundation (LMF), a non-profit HMO. Due in part to a rapidly changing competitive environment, LMF has faced serious financial problems over the past two years. Confounding the problem…
OB25
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee, II
2004
The executive VP of administration of a diversified provider of financial services and products was alarmed over escalating costs for personnel within the data processing department. This department had performed well and had grown tremendously over its…
