SM173
Robert Burgelman, Rob Holmes
2008
In December 2007, more than 75 percent of all U.S. Internet users streamed some form of video online, consuming over 10 billion videos in total. While devices such as Apple TV and TiVo allowed users to watch Internet video on their televisions, Internet…
OB66
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2008
This note summarizes important ideas in the social networks literature-including brokerage and structural holes and the trade-offs between networking and getting work done and between brokerage relationships and the dense connections required to build…
P60B
Nathan Blair, Saumitra Jha
2008
Jet Airways (B) is the follow-up case to Jet Airways (A). The case describes the employee cost reduction strategy undertaken by Jet Airways – the termination of trainee flight attendants – and the resulting media and political backlash that followed….
P56
David Baron
2008
In 2007 the House of Representatives passed legislation that would treat carried interest as ordinary income instead of a long-term gain. The move threatened to increase the tax rate from 15 percent to 35 percent on the income of partners in private…
P58
David Baron
2008
Reacting to the 1973-4 Arab oil embargo, Congress enacted a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) system in 1975 that required an increase in automobile fuel economy from 14.2 miles per gallon in 1974 to 27.5 mpg in 1984. Since that time, Congress had…
P57
David Baron
2008
In 2006 Merck received FDA approval for Gardasil, the first vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) which had been identified as the cause of cervical cancer. Merck priced the vaccine at $360 for the three injections and was working on programs for the…
P51
David Baron, Aneesha Capur
2008
In early 2006 David Barlow, CEO of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MIP), a development stage biopharmaceutical company, faced a set of challenges in bringing its lead product to market and in progressing its second product into the clinical trial…
OIT81B
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Sara Gaviser Leslie, Stefanos Zenios
2008
This case has been developed to facilitate a negotiation exercise related to the formation of partnership deals in the healthcare industry. It is based on actual information, but reflects a hypothetical situation involving two companies and a product that…
P55
David Baron
2008
Google had become an extraordinarily popular website because of the efficiency of its search engine and that popularity spiraled through its applications. The key to Google’s financial success was placing advertisements tailored to the search queries of…
SM172
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2008
This case describes the work of the Innovation Program Office (IPO) within the Personal Systems Group (PSG) at technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP). It shows how this group solicits, qualifies and develops ideas for new products and services.
SM35C
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2008
This case describes the difficult times Charles Schwab the company faced after the dot-com bust of the early 2000s. It also describes how Charles Schwab the man returned in July 2004 to take on the CEO position, and the strategic actions he took to fix…
SI108
Glenn Carroll, Victoria Chang
2008
In 1999, the nonprofit Fair Labor Association (FLA) was launched to monitor factories around the world for sweatshop-related infractions. Another key nonprofit player, the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), was launched in 2000. The two organizations had…
SI104
Victoria Chang, Walter Powell
2008
The case study discusses San Jose, California-based nonprofit HOPE Services’ merger with Santa Cruz-based Skills Center. Thanks to the merger with Skills Center, two additional acquisitions, and the development of new business ventures—HOPE had increased…
OIT74
Lyn Denend, Erica Plambeck, Fraser Stark
2008
In 2007, popular acceptance of the problem of global warming, and new recognition of its potential consequences, had brought carbon dioxide emissions to the front of Americans’ minds. The continued turmoil in Iraq, as well as the United States’ worsening…
P71
David Baron
2008
Banco Compartamos was formed in 1990 as a non-governmental organization to aid the poor in rural areas of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico by providing microloans. In 2001 Carlos Danel and Carlos Labarthe took the organization private and then in 2007 took…
P70
David Baron
2008
After hearing a talk by Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist, about an innovative program to provide loans to beggars, Jessica Jackley Flannery became convinced that microfinance “was the coolest thing in the world.” In 2004 she and her husband, Matt…
SI107
Victoria Chang, William Meehan III
2008
In the Fall of 2007, Jacob Harold, the Philanthropy Program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, was on his way to meet with Paul Brest, the Foundation’s president. Harold had set up a meeting with Brest, also the…
M317A
Arar Han, Wesley Hartmann
2008
American Securities Capital (AS), a private equity firm based in New York City, seeks to research and analyze the Chinese foodservice market, to assess opportunities for AS portfolio restaurant chains and identify additional restaurant related…
SPM37
Antonio Davila, George Foster, David Hoyt
2008
In 1994, John Moores purchased the San Diego Padres baseball team. The team shared Qualcomm Stadium with the San Diego Chargers football team, which was the senior tenant and received a far higher share of stadium revenue than the Padres. As a result…
OIT80
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2008
Historically, the biggest obstacle that healthcare innovators, such as pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, needed to overcome on their way to market was securing approval by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) or other international…
P59
David Baron
2008
In late 2006 and early 2007 a number of imports from China, including toys, were found to pose health risks. With safety concerns about Chinese imports on the minds of readers, on July 26, 2007 the New York Times carried a feature article on the…
SI88
James Phills, Lyn Denend
2008
In mid-2006, Overstock.com faced a daunting set of business challenges. Founded in 1999 as an online “closeout” retailer, the $800 million company had more than 15 million unique visitors a month, 10 million life-to-date customers, and greater than 500…
OB71
Victoria Chang, Jesper Sorensen
2008
As Green As It Gets was a nonprofit “economic development organization supporting small, independent producers in disadvantaged Guatemalan communities.” The founder was an American named Franklin Voorhes. As Green As It Gets sponsored a collective of 18…
E320
Katherine Bose, R. Ellis
2008
The protagonist,David Dodson, is a second-time search fund entrepreneur who in mid-2004 purchased Mountain Auto, a leading auto parts retailer in the Rocky Mountain United States. The venture started off strong, and Dodson grew the organization along with…
