OD3B
William Barnett, Glenn Carroll, Greg Powell
2002
In November 2002 Wind River announced their latest reorganization and strategy: Enterprise Platform Initiative (EPI). The EPI was designed to make Wind River a long-term strategic partner with their clients by changing their pricing model, sales channels…
SM24C
Robert Burgelman, Frederic Descamps, Philip Meza
2002
Electronic Arts is a highly successful creator of video games for consoles and PCs. The company also creates content for online gaming. EA occupies a unique place in the information processing industry. The company must have the skills of a Hollywood…
OB63
Stoyan Sgourev, Ezra Zuckerman
2002
Peer networks are sets of non-competing firms in the same line of business, gathering on a regular basis to share information on relative performance and business practices. Peer networks provide a unique solution to the growing need of firms to…
OB39
Jennifer Buechel, John Jost
2002
Helen Priano, manufacturing manager at General Grain’s Michigan Cereal Facility had two critical decisions to make in early February 2002. Helen needed to decide whether or not to fire a 30-year veteran employee and if she should drop charges against an…
RE131
Craig Blanchard, Jack Kolodny, Joel Peterson
2002
Analysis of an investment in a distressed healthcare Real Estate Investment Trust.
SM100
Robert Burgelman, Yann Ngongang, Juan Posada, Ben Shih
2002
CIENA Corporation designs, manufactures and markets intelligent optical networking systems and software, for service providers and enterprises worldwide. The company grew rapidly as the market for telecommunications equipment exploded with the Internet…
OD3A
William Barnett, Glenn Carroll, Greg Powell
2002
In October 1999, Wind River Systems announced a reorganization after merging with Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI), their chief rival and competitor in the embedded software space. The restructuring shifted Wind River’s organization from a “horizontal”…
SI36
William Barnett, Brady Beaubien, William Durham
2002
The Galapagos Islands are referred to as the birthplace of modern day ecotourism. Alongside fishing, the business of providing “eco-tours” has become the principle means of income for the approximately 16,000 inhabitants spread among the five inhabited…
OD2
Glenn Carroll
2002
In 1997, the American Heart Association (AHA), Western States Affiliate reorganized in order to increase fundraising revenues for the nonprofit. Rather than a wide range of fundraising and programmatic duties, all staff were now defined by key…
E135A
William Barnett, Andrea Higuera, Aimee Swanson
2002
SkyStream Networks was a worldwide networking infrastructure company whose products enabled service providers to create new revenue streams by delivering digital media services like corporate communications, live broadcast video, enhanced TV, media asset…
E198
William Barnett, Peter Lorentzen
2002
This teaching note describes the economic, financial and political environment faced by entrepreneurial firms in China in the year 2002. The note discusses the economic reform process, the relationship between business and government , and challenges…
E138
Mark Benning, Dennis Rohan, Alicia Seiger
2002
The case is a full-scale business plan for the launch of an Internet service provider for the Pacific Rim. Set in 1993, the case has a short introduction followed by the business plan for PacNet. Dr. Kevin Wong, PacNet’s founder, plans to take advantage…
E4
Harold Grousbeck, Kevin Taweel
2002
Bob Nylen and Dan Okrent were publisher and editors respectively, ex New England Monthly, a regional magazine the pair founded in 1983. Although not a financial success thus far - the magazine continually operated in the red - it was an editorial hit. It…
E135B
William Barnett, Andrea Higuera, Aimee Swanson
2002
This case is not a stand-alone case, but rather should be used in conjunction with the case SkyStream Networks (A) E-135. It has been designed to be handed out to students during class following a discussion of Case A. Case A chronicles the history of…
E120
Christopher Flanagan, H. Grousbeck
2002
A search fund is an investment vehicle in which investors financially support an entrepreneurs’ efforts to locate and acquire a privately held company. This study examines investment returns of first-time search funds.
HR10
Charles O'Reilly III
2002
How does a high technology firm successfully grow and compete in a market where software may be obsolete in 12 months? Cisco Systems, with annual revenues of more then $8 billion and a market capitalization larger than General Motors, is a leader in the…
E140A
William Barnett, Janet Feldstein
2002
In the spring of 2001, two recent graduates of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, John Fowler and Josh Greenberg, founded Montebello Capital, a search fund, as a vehicle for buying a company that they would run as CEO and president. The case follows…
IB41
Michael Hannan, John McMillan, Joel Podolny, Mary Ann Warren
2002
In the fall of 1999, Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), anticipated that the WTO’s talks in Seattle in December, 1999 would focus on improving living standards around the world, bettering the environment, providing more…
OB36B
David Hoyt, Margaret Neale
2001
Case B describes the negotiations leading to the rescue of the fund by a consortium of banks. The case is based on Roger Lowenstein’s book “When Genius Failed” and was developed with his permission.
OB36A
David Hoyt, Margaret Neale
2001
In 1993, John Meriwether, former head of arbitrage and bond trading at Salomon Brothers, put together the smartest group of bond arbitrage experts ever assembled. The group included a number of professors, two of whom were future Nobel laureates in…
M296
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2001
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), started in 1971, was a nonprofit consumer group that focused on nutrition and health, food safety, and alcohol policy. The center was known for its eye-opening reports about restaurant food. Not only…
M295B
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2001
Supplement to the (A) Case
M295A
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2001
The low budget horror film, The Blair Witch Project, was one of the biggest success stories in film history based on the ratio of production cost to revenue. Costing only $35,000 to create, it generated $48 million in its first week of wide release (on 1…
GS3A
Laura Kopczak, Hau Lee
2001
This case describes a challenge faced by HP’s Vancouver Division in 1990. Although its new inkjet printers were selling well, inventory levels worldwide were rising as sales rose. In Europe, high product variety was making inventory levels especially high…
