SM297
Robert Chess, Cameron Lehman
2018
Fabien Beckers, Founder and CEO of Arterys, walks through the creation of his medical / AI imaging company, including the equity struggles of the founding team, building the right team and final the right channel sales partners.
M370B
Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Peter Seibert
2018
This set of Humor: Serious Business “Caselet Studies” follows three visionaries (SPANX CEO Sara Blakely, Deloitte Partner Brian Fugere, and Friend of a Friend Productions CEO/Founder Eric Gurian) as they examine their strategic use of humor in the…
M370C
Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Peter Seibert, Eric Gurian
2018
This set of Humor: Serious Business “Caselet Studies” follows three visionaries (SPANX CEO Sara Blakely, Deloitte Partner Brian Fugere, and Friend of a Friend Productions CEO/Founder Eric Gurian) as they examine their strategic use of humor in the…
M370A
Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Peter Seibert, Sara Blakely
2018
This set of Humor: Serious Business “Caselet Studies” follows three visionaries (SPANX CEO Sara Blakely, Deloitte Partner Brian Fugere, and Friend of a Friend Productions CEO/Founder Eric Gurian) as they examine their strategic use of humor in the…
SM293
Mike Volpi, Dione Chen
2018
Sonos, a home audio equipment manufacturer known for pioneering wireless speakers that offered home listeners greater convenience and superior sound quality, had good reason to be optimistic in 2015. For the past several years, sales had grown in excess…
SM300
Mike Speiser, Julie Makinen
2018
By 2015, MongoDB was seven years old and a so-called “unicorn,” a startup valued at more than $1 billion. MongoDB’s open-source software had been downloaded about 9 million times, and the company seemed to have the potential to disrupt the $45 billion…
SM294
John Glynn, Cameron Lehman
2018
Greg Milani, Senior Managing Director of the Stanford Management Company, considers how much of Stanford’s $27 billion endowment to allocate to early stage capital, taking into account the various pro’s and con’s of that allocation.
SM299A
Mark Leslie, Scott Brady, Julie Makinen
2018
In the #MeToo era, allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct pose difficult issues for employers, particularly when allegations surface about incidents that occurred prior to an employee’s term at the company. This case, fictionalized but based…
SM299C
Mark Leslie, Scott Brady, Julie Makinen
2018
In the #MeToo era, allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct pose difficult issues for employers, particularly when allegations surface about incidents that occurred prior to an employee’s term at the company. This case, fictionalized but based…
SM299D
Mark Leslie, Scott Brady, Julie Makinen
2018
In the #MeToo era, allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct pose difficult issues for employers, particularly when allegations surface about incidents that occurred prior to an employee’s term at the company. This case, fictionalized but based…
SM299B
Mark Leslie, Scott Brady, Julie Makinen
2018
In the #MeToo era, allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct pose difficult issues for employers, particularly when allegations surface about incidents that occurred prior to an employee’s term at the company. This case, fictionalized but based…
SM291
David Dodson, Cameron Lehman
2018
Case follows Leila Janah, a Harvard-educated social entrepreneur, on her mission to “give work” – provide jobs, rather than just money, clothes or food – to those in impoverished communities overseas and in the United States. Case profiles Janah’s…
E562B
Robert Siegel
2018
Between the back half of 2015 and early 2018 CircleUp had both grown and changed substantively. The company’s core data and Helio platform had enabled the firm to offer a new set of equity and credit services to startup consumer companies that were too…
SI146
Charles Ewald, Heidi Krauel Patel, Jaclyn Foroughi
2018
In the fall of 2017, Beneficial State Bank, a triple bottom line community development bank serving areas of California, Oregon, and Washington, had completed its fourth successive year of normalized profitability while continuing to fulfill its mission…
GS92
Hau Lee, Richard Chivaka
2018
Mhuri Enterprise had beaten the odds, and figured out a way to cut production costs to bring its pigs to market and make a profit. Small-scale enterprises faced a large number of financial, regulatory, and business barriers in Zimbabwe, a country where 70…
SM287
Robert Siegel, Cameron Lehman
2018
MGM Resorts International was built as a gambling business. Over the past few decades, through its development of restaurants, live shows and musical performances, it has transformed into a fully-fledged entertainment company. Now, in 2018, it looks to…
SM292
Steve Callander, Josh Richman, Julie Makinen
2018
In July 2015, a monumental environmental bill, S.B. 350, was making its way through the California legislature. The measure sought to reduce the state’s petroleum use by 50 percent; require 50 percent of energy to come from renewable sources; and double…
P93B
Steven Callander, Cameron Lehman
2018
In 2015, the Nevada Public Utility Commission (PUC) passed a ruling that essentially eliminated net metering, dramatically reducing the compensation rate for home solar owners selling excess electricity back to the utility company. As a result, solar…
P93A
Steven Callander, Josh Richman, Cameron Lehman
2018
In 2015, the Nevada Public Utility Commission (PUC) passed a ruling that essentially eliminated net metering, dramatically reducing the compensation rate for home solar owners selling excess electricity back to the utility company. As a result, solar…
E838
Peter Ziebelman, Matthew Saucedo, Jose Ignacio Garcia Suarez
2017
This case study delves into the complexities of equity allocation among startup cofounders, exploring three distinct scenarios: DogBone/Whiplash, Kitten Mittens, and Bad Blood. Each vignette presents unique challenges and decisions faced by cofounders…
E616
Jim Ellis, Matt Saucedo
2017
CRC Telecom explores the founding and growth of Alberto López and Fernando Gutierrez’s company CRC Telecom. It follows the entrepreneurs’ journey from launching a search fund to deciding to build a company from scratch in the Panamanian billboard market…
A229
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn Foroughi
2017
In February 2008, as world markets slid deeper into economic decline, J. Michael Pearson joined Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceuticals company, then based in a quiet suburb of southern California. By August 2015, the stock price peaked…
SM276
Robert Burgelman, Sheila Melvin
2017
Bahwan Cybertek (BCT) was an IP-enabled technology company founded in 1999 by Sheikah Hind Bahwan (Hind) and S. Durgaprasad (DP). Over the years, it had grown into a global provider of innovative software products and services and become a $242 million…
SM312
Gang Zheng, Yanting Guo, Robert A. Burgelman, Ben El-Baz
2017
This case describes the renewed growth of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in 2017, after suffering bruising setbacks at the hands of local competitors during the past two years. In 2017Q2, the company rejoined the top five rankings of the global…
