David Baron
2000
In 2000, eBay was faced with the challenge of protecting important strategic assets its database and the community it had developed - while allowing information to flow freely on the Internet. eBay’s information assets were invaluable to the company for…
David Baron, Victoria Chang
2000
Vice President of the Security Products Division of Sophis Networks (a company whose identity has been masked) with the Government Affairs Group had spent the last two and a half years working closely with Congress and the Clinton Administration to relax…
David Baron, Victoria Chang
2000
Vice President of the Security Products Division of Sophis Networks (a company whose identity has been masked) with the Government Affairs Group had spent the last two and a half years working closely with Congress and the Clinton Administration to relax…
T. Anderson, J.B. Grewel
2000
US Forest Capital was founded in 1998 by Joe Euphrat and Tom Tuchmann to allow non-profit organizations to participate in the market for forestland through low yield tax-exempt revenue bonds and thereby make tax exempt sustainable forestry a reality. With…
Jed Emerson, Daniel Kessler, Melinda Tuan
1998
Analyzes the experience of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) which transformed its philanthropic practice into a social venture capital practice in 1997 with a portfolio of nonprofit enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. Also presents…
David Baron, Chen Lichtenstein
1998
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice together with 19 state attorneys general filed an antitrust action against Microsoft Corporation for anticompetitive conduct and violation of the Sherman Act. The case details the Department of Justice’s…
Daniel Kessler
1998
The executive director of the Asian Neighborhood Design (AND) attempts to quantify the potential financial and social return for investors in his nonprofit enterprise. AND seeks to raise $2.27 million. However, as a nonprofit organization, it cannot offer…
David Baron, Chris Watts
1997
In 1996 Silicon Valley companies and their leaders organized a successful campaign to defeat a ballot initiative that would have circumvented federal law and made securities fraud lawsuits, which the companies believed were largely frivolous, easier to…
David Baron, Chris Watts
1997
In 1996 Silicon Valley companies and their leaders organized a successful campaign to defeat a ballot initiative that would have circumvented federal law and made securities fraud lawsuits, which the companies believed were largely frivolous, easier to…
David Baron, Michael Ting
1997
Focuses on the nonmarket strategy of a high technology company to influence European standard setting for control networks. Echelon Corp. is a small, privately-held company located in Palo Alto, CA that produces open architecture control networks-…
David Baron, Michael Ting, Keith Krehbiel, Erik Johnson, Daniel P. Kessler
1996
This case focuses on non-market strategy formulation by a high technology company to obtain a congressional directive requiring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish an open architecture standard that would allow its control network…
David Baron, Michael Ting, Erik Johnson
1996
This case focuses on nonmarket strategy formulation by a high technology company to obtain a congressional directive requiring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish an open architecture standard that would allow its control network…
David P. Baron
1996
The Eastman Kodak Company filed a market-opening petition under U.S. trade law alleging that practices in the distribution system for photographic film and paper in Japan blocked exports. Kodak accompanied its petition with an integrated market and…
David Baron, A. Wu
1994
In 1993, as part of its deficit reduction program the Clinton administration proposed a $6.7 billion reduction in the Section 936 tax credits for U.S. mainland firms that operate facilities in Puerto Rico. The Clinton proposal would also change the credit…
David Baron, Justin Adams
1994
Under the leadership of CEO Lorenzo Zambrano, Cementos Mexicanos, S.A. (Cemex) has become the largest cement producer in North America and the fourth largest in the world. As a component of its globalization strategy Cemex expanded into the United States…
Keith Krehbiel
1994
In the wake of large-scale interest group politics,2 the U.S. Senate passed S.173- also known as the Baby Bell bill-on June 5, 1991. The final vote was somewhat surprisingly lopsided: 7 1-24. But while the RBOCs managed both to woo and wow the
Senate in…
Keith Krehbiel
1994
In 1983, a lengthy and extremely complex antitrust suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against AT&T was finally settled through a consent decree, or so it seemed. A significant portion of the former and formidable monopoly AT&T was to be broken…
Keith Krehbiel
1994
Westlands Water District of Fresno, California, is the largest agricultural water delivery agency in the United States. Part of California’s Central Valley Project (CVP), Westlands’ district covers nearly 1,000 square miles of the naturally arid San…
David Baron
1994
Implementation of Levi Strauss & Co.’s (LS&CO.’s) Terms of Engagement component of its Global Sourcing Guidelines required the development of procedures and standards for
evaluating contractor compliance.2 It also meant that inspections and audits of each…
David Baron, J. Wu
1994
Since 1986 Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO.) had sourced garments for the U.S. market from independent contractors in China. It had also been evaluating joint venture opportunities in
China, and early in 1992 after several years of study LS&CO. decided to…
David Baron, J. Adams
1994
Although Levi Strauss & Co. was virtually the only major apparel firm that produced in its own factories, by 1991 it had a network of almost 700 outside contractors, mostly in Asia and Latin America. This change presented a dilemma to Peter Jacobi,
Levi…
Keith Krehbiel
1994
In 1992, General Motors Corporation struggled through rocky management shakeups and its third consecutive year of red in, One of GM’s few profitable products among its ailing North American operations were its pickups. Large pickups in the U.S. are…
Keith Krehbiel
1994
Supplement to the A case.