SPM44
George Foster, Norman O'Reilly
2011
In 2009, the digital world was in a period of drastic change. The YES Network, the regional sports network linked to the New York Yankees baseball club, was at the forefront of the issue of the day: the management of digital rights. In simpler terms, they…
OIT105
Lawton Burns, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2011
As of 2012, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2009 requires medical device manufacturers to track any payments or gifts they make to physicians that are worth more than $10 and then starting in 2013 to report those that exceed a total of $100 per…
M338
Lyn Denend, Baba Shiv
2011
In 2010, the New Zealand Merino Company Limited (NZM) secured a combination of government and private funding to help it further advance its efforts to revolutionize the country’s sheep industry. Specifically, the company’s top priorities were to expand…
RE136
Doug Abbey, Nori Lietz
2011
In late spring 2010, Liv Hugen returned to her native Scandinavia to relax before assuming responsibility over the real estate portfolio for her government’s sovereign wealth fund. The fund’s composite portfolio was expected to grow to approximately $500…
OD6C
Glenn Carroll, David Hoyt
2011
The financial crisis that began in 2008 had enormous impact on the financial markets, as well as on GlobeOp, by then a leader in middle- and back-office support services and fund administration for hedge funds and other investors. The crisis created a…
SM195
Robert Burgelman, Debra Schifrin
2011
This case is set five years after the Stanford Graduate School of Business case “Infosys Consulting in 2006: Leading the Next Generation of Business and Information Technology Consulting.” Since then Infosys Consulting (IC) had become quite successful in…
P77
David Baron
2011
Goldman Sachs was a bank, but it did not take deposits, issue credit cards, make mortgage loans, or interact with consumers. For most of its history Goldman was organized as a partnership and operated as an investment bank engaging in underwriting new…
SM189
Robert Burgelman, Debra Schifrin
2011
This case details the strategic decisions that went into Nissan’s development of the LEAF, the first mass- produced all-electric car. Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, was making a $5 billion bet that electric cars would be…
OIT104
Gretchen Daily, David Hoyt, Erica Plambeck
2011
Nature plays an important role in maintaining the flow and purity of water. Human activities often degrade the quality and/or quantity of water flowing to downstream users, but maintaining natural ecosystems, and sound conservation management by those…
P74
Alexander Hirsch, Ken Shotts
2011
Comprehensive health care insurance reform was a perennial goal of the Democratic Party. Although reform efforts had persistently ended in failure, proponents of reform saw a new window of opportunity after the 2008 Presidential election. Barack Obama had…
P75
Cameron Bell, Theo Milonopoulos, Charles Nicas, Condoleezza Rice, Daniel Slate
2011
The United States has pursued a number of punitive economic sanctions – through executive orders, acts of Congress, and multilateral U.N. Security Council resolutions – to isolate the Islamic Republic of Iran for its refusal to comply with international…
SM193
Robert Burgelman, Debra Schifrin
2011
This case covers the electric vehicle industry, starting with the history of the electric car and then moving on to the forces driving the twenty-first century automotive industry toward electrification. These include: Government incentives for buying…
SM200
Glenn Carroll, Xavier Lederer
2011
The US organic cereal business is fascinating: while most brands of organic breakfast cereals were founded by hippies who wanted to make a difference in the world in the 70s and 80s, many have been taken over by large “traditional’ food companies. Attune…
SM191
Lyn Denend, William Meehan III
2011
Jane Chen (GSB 08) and Brian Trelstad (GSB 99) had known one another for years. Trelstad, the chief investment officer of the nonprofit global venture fund Acumen Fund, had been a mentor to Chen and her colleagues as they worked to develop a low cost…
F276
Jonathan Berk, Debra Schifrin
2011
The Ameritor family of mutual funds was nicknamed the “Dead Man Funds” because of its terrible performance and the assumption that those who kept their money in the funds had no choice, that is, they were dead. Established in the 1950s, the funds boasted…
E406
William Barnett, Arar Han
2011
The case proceeds through three eras in Facebook’s history. In the first era, we describe the initial rapid growth of Facebook as a social network application. In the second era, we detail the changes in scope made by Facebook as it moved beyond the…
E384
George Foster, David Hoyt
2011
In 2003, Andrew Forrest planned to enter the iron ore industry, which was highly capital intensive, consolidating, and dominated by three companies. Less than five years later, his start-up, Fortescue Metals Group, loaded its first ore onto a ship bound…
IB99
Manish Khandelwal, John Roberts
2011
Dabur India, Ltd. had come a long way since 1884. It began as an Indian traditional Ayurveda health products firm and, by 2010, had grown into one of the top four fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies in India. The company had established…
F275
John Beshears, Debra Schifrin
2011
The case examines HelloWallet, the online, independent financial guidance service, in the context of behavioral finance concepts. It also looks at the specific challenges faced by online personal financial management (PFM) systems. In addition, the case…
E416
Neel Bhatia, R. Ellis, J.P. Flaum, Arar Han
2011
All hiring managers want to hire the “right” person for each position. Only half succeed. The other half end in failure, impeding direct projects as well as indirectly eroding revenue, EBITDA, and company valuation. Given such high stakes, managers should…
E393
Robert Chess, Sara Rosenthal
2011
The iPierian case profiles a startup biotechnology company leveraging the recent development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—adult stem cells that have been reprogrammed to a “pluripotent” state whereby they can differentiate into approximately…
E404B
Andrea Larson, Raymond Levitt, Erica Plambeck, Sara Rosenthal
2011
Part A of the ZETA Communities case provides the background on the history of the construction industry, the housing crisis and declining economic environment at the time the co-founders were launching the company, and the emergence of the green building…
E404A
Andrea Larson, Raymond Levitt, Erica Plambeck, Sara Rosenthal
2011
Part A of the ZETA Communities case provides the background on the history of the construction industry, the housing crisis and declining economic environment at the time the co-founders were launching the company, and the emergence of the green building…
HR29B
James Baron, David Larcker, Brian Tayan
2011
This case is a follow up to HR-29A, and explains the actions taken by Keller Williams in response to the residential real estate market downturn in 2008 and 2009. The case explains the programs and initiatives put in place by the company to boost agent…
