SI137B
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn Foroughi
2020
Thorough analysis of various nonprofit business models requires an understanding of each firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. Providing…
E733
Graham Weaver, Erika Feldhausen, Imogen Mansfield
2020
This case details the various challenges that Whitney Wolfe Herd faced in starting and scaling Bumble. The case explores critical decisions that Wolfe Herd had to make, including which investors to raise money from, how to pitch her ‘women message first’…
M385
Anupriya Dwivedi, Jennifer Aaker
2020
When is humor in the workplace appropriate — and what does a little levity add to the collaborative process? Ample research has documented how and when employers and fellow employees appreciate jokes, pranks, and humorous “water cooler” discussions. This…
OM39B
Jonathan Levav , Sheila Melvin, Omri Assenheim
2020
In the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered his army to invade the neighboring, oil-rich state of Kuwait; within two days, Iraq had largely overcome organized military resistance and occupied its neighbor. A near-total…
OM39A
Jonathan Levav , Sheila Melvin, Omri Assenheim
2020
In the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered his army to invade the neighboring, oil-rich state of Kuwait; within two days, Iraq had largely overcome organized military resistance and occupied its neighbor. A near-total…
E698
George Foster, Sheila Melvin
2020
Matt Barnard, CEO of the indoor vertical farming company Plenty, analyzed the agricultural supply chain in the United States and determined it had a four-pronged problem that people would pay to have solved: flavor, waste, environmental footprint, and…
E747
Graham Weaver, Imogen Mansfield
2020
The Ariel Investments case examines several managerial challenges that John Rogers, founder and Co-CEO, and Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO, have encountered at Ariel. The case provides an opportunity for students to plan and practice difficult conversations in a…
SM337
Robert Burgelman, Margot Sutherland
2020
Tim Höttges was at the outset of his seventh year as CEO of Deutsche Telekom (DT) in 2020. The company served more than 184 million mobile customers and had a presence in over 50 countries. Over the course of the previous 7 years, European…
E706
Stephen Ciesinski, Howard Rosen, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
Nova Pioneer was a private school system in South Africa and Kenya that offered preschool through secondary education for students ranging in age from 3 to 19. The earliest of Nova Pioneer’s precursors was Pioneer Academies, founded in South Africa by…
OB105
Charles O’Reilly, Sheila Melvin
2020
Intel established the Emerging Growth and Incubation (EGI) Group in 2018 with a charter to build a disruptive innovation engine. The EGI Group was seen as essential—even existential—for Intel to expand beyond its core business, find new ways to add…
E723
Steve Ciesinski, Howard Rosen, Jason Luther, Steven Truong
2020
In recent years the world has witnessed a growing wave of entrepreneurial ventures in developing economies. CB Insights reports as of March 2020, developing economies have produced 160 unicorns, equivalent to 35 percent of all unicorns in the world. Much…
E742
David Dodson, Imogen Mansfield
2020
Robin Mohapatra acquired NCFDD, a for-profit online professional development company serving universities and their faculty members, through a search fund. Based in Detroit, Michigan, NCFDD was growing rapidly and the company’s founder was keen to return…
OB107
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2020
For most of her career, Lucinda Stewart was a woman working in contexts—investment banking private equity, venture capital—largely dominated by men. Nonetheless, Stewart had been able, virtually from the beginning of her career, to obtain allies and…
F317A
Mike Harmon, Claudia Robles-Garcia
2020
This case explores the use of advanced out-of-court restructuring techniques from the perspective of a company facing looming debt maturities and an overleveraged capital structure. The decade that followed the global financial crisis was characterized by…
ETH29
Cooper Raterink, Daniel Kharitinov, Zoe Weinberg, Jennifer Aaker
2020
2012 was dubbed the “Year of the MOOC” (Massive Open Online Course), but this mode of online learning has not really caught on. Why not? Student surveys show that these online learning platforms seem to be lacking in community, support, and academic…
SM335
Kevin A. Schulman, Kevin Ho
2020
Verily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships with academic research institutions, legacy life sciences companies, and hospitals and health…
E741
Robert Siegel, Jack Strabo
2020
The LiveRamp in 2020 case follows the story of Anneka Gupta as she rises from one of LiveRamp’s first product managers to president and head of products and platforms, responsible for overseeing the company’s product, engineering, marketing, and general…
E737
David Dodson, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
This case describes the tumultuous experience Eduardo Ruiz had as CEO of Retail Services & Technologies. Ruiz had acquired Arizona-based RST at the end of his search process, but soon began to experience difficulties with the seller and former CEO. These…
E736
David Dodson, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
This case describes the formation of Trista Engel and Jessica Markowitz’s search fund. It begins by describing their process for deciding if they should pursue entrepreneurship through acquisition and, if so, if they should partner together. Upon deciding…
E735
David Dodson, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
This case describes how Laura Franklin and William Colt conducted their entrepreneurial acquisition process. After the duo honed their method for contacting potential sellers, they found a company they were excited to close a deal with. Over the course of…
SM339
Graham Weaver, Meredith Colton Hazy, Dominic Mirabile
2020
This case details challenges Adeyemi Ajao faced in his career as a founder of three companies: Tuenti, a social media company in Spain, Identified, a data analytics company for recruiters, and Base10 Partners, a venture capital firm. At Tuenti, Ajao…
SPM59
George Foster, Dave Hoyt, Matthew Cruickshank, Gerzain Gutierrez
2020
At the start of 2020, the motorsports industry faced a number of challenges. Attendance at events had been steadily dropping, threatening key revenue streams. New generations of fans wanted to experience and enjoy sports differently than previous…
ETH18B
Ken Shotts, Sheila Melvin
2020
Between 1999 and 2017, almost 400,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose. An average of 130 died each day in 2017, six times the daily rate in 1999. These deaths were caused by both prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly…
ETH25
William F Meehan III, Charles G Prober, Sheila Melvin, Bernadette Clavier
2020
This roleplay is designed to help students learn how to express divergent viewpoints. First year MBA student Zoe Greene is unhappy about a recent in-class discussion and dissatisfied with certain assumptions about capitalism that seem to be woven into the…
