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Fervo Energy, a geothermal start-up founded by drilling engineer Tim Latimer and geoscientist Jack Norbeck, set out to unlock a new form of clean, reliable energy by applying horizontal drilling and advanced sensing technologies from the shale oil and gas…
The two-part case “Cleantech Capital (A) and (B): Banking on a Green Future)” follows John McNally, a senior investment banker who leaves a successful career to found Cleantech Capital, an investment bank dedicated to financing the clean technology sector…
The two-part case “Cleantech Capital (A) and (B): Banking on a Green Future)” follows John McNally, a senior investment banker who leaves a successful career to found Cleantech Capital, an investment bank dedicated to financing the clean technology sector…
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…
KumuMedia Technologies, Inc., founded in 2017 by Filipino American entrepreneurs Roland Ros and Rexy Dorado, is a social media and live-streaming platform designed to connect Filipinos worldwide while empowering local creators to earn income.
Kumu…
KumuMedia Technologies, Inc., founded in 2017 by Filipino American entrepreneurs Roland Ros and Rexy Dorado, is a social media and live-streaming platform designed to connect Filipinos worldwide while empowering local creators to earn income.
Kumu…
KumuMedia Technologies, Inc., founded in 2017 by Filipino American entrepreneurs Roland Ros and Rexy Dorado, is a social media and live-streaming platform designed to connect Filipinos worldwide while empowering local creators to earn income.
Kumu…
This case follows Stanford GSB alumnus Tayo Oviosu, who founded Paga in 2009, and set out to digitize payments in Nigeria, where more than 90 percent of transactions were conducted in cash and over half the population was unbanked. By building a…
Artificial intelligence is diffusing across developing economies along a path distinct from that of the United States and China. Rather than being driven primarily by hyperscale infrastructure investments or geopolitical competition, AI adoption in the…
Chris Anderson, best known for scaling TED and mobilizing billions for philanthropy, and Stan Miranda, a career investor who helped build Partners Capital into a $65B outsourced CIO, believe they can unlock one of climate investing’s most persistent…
This case presents Ingram Micro’s effort to reimagine the IT distribution model through Xvantage, an AI-enabled digital platform launched as the company prepared to return to public markets. In the case, CEO Paul Bay, Chief Digital Officer Sanjib Sahoo…
Alex Tiller, Captain of Lunar Labs, faces a defining moment for his organization’s experimental model of innovation. During a Quarterly Learning Review, the team behind CarbonCatcher—a direct air capture project designed to remove carbon from the…
In 2022, two first-time entrepreneurs, Hannah Greenberg and Alex Lopez, acquired Eleven Software, a Portland-based provider of cloud platforms that managed guest Wi-Fi for major hospitality brands such as Hilton and Marriott. The pair had met during their…
In 2025, serial entrepreneur and angel investor Simon de Montfort stepped into an unassuming warehouse in Alameda, California, to meet Ricky Jennings, the inventor behind SeaGlider—an ambitious effort to build autonomous, wind- and solar-powered ocean…
