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In early 2026, Manoj Kumar was preparing for a strategic review of Social Alpha, the not-for-profit he had founded a decade earlier to support science- and technology-based ventures addressing problems that conventional markets had largely ignored. Based…
By April 2001, Asurion had reached $80 million in revenue and $25 million in EBITDA. TA Associates invested at a $225 million valuation. Kevin Taweel and Jim Ellis had hired Bret Comolli, a West Point graduate and former CEO, to lead operations. The…
Kevin Taweel, from Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Jim Ellis, from rural Florida, met as case writers for Irv Grousbeck at Stanford GSB. Both wanted to own a business. In July 1995, they acquired Road Rescue, an $8.5 million roadside-assistance company…
In early 2018, Jessica Herrin faces four leadership dilemmas with no obviously correct answers.
Herrin built Stella & Dot from a living room trunk show in 2003 into a nearly $300 million direct-sales jewelry company with tens of thousands of independent…
In 2025, Virta Health CEO and cofounder Sami Inkinen faces a series of strategic and leadership choices as the company nears profitability and contemplates an initial public offering (IPO). Founded in 2014 to reverse Type 2 diabetes and obesity through…
