SI81
Jennifer Lee, James Phills
2007
Set during the years surrounding the market crash of 2000, Entrepreneurs Foundation (EF) is a strategy case that discusses a number of challenges facing non-profit managers, including 1) establishing a sustainable and self-supporting operating model, 2)…
OB65
Hayagreeva Rao, Jennie Tung
2007
Eu Yan Sang International was an Asia-based traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) provider. The company was established in the late 1890s and had been in operations for over 100 years. By 2007, it was managed by a combination of fourth-generation descendants…
IB68
Annalisa Mastri, R. McKern
2007
Despite its humble beginnings as a small, family-run enterprise headquartered in rural central Italy, by the end of 2005 the Indesit Company (known until January 2005 as Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA) had grown into one of the top competitors in Europe in…
IB67D
Leandro Cuccioli, Steve de Bonvoisin, Raquel Gonzalez-Dalmau, Gustavo Lopes, R. McKern
2007
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, American Colonial Heritage, Inc. (ACH) was a top-ten U.S. furniture manufacturer focused on the upper end of the indoor home furniture market. The head of the International Division had just asked Alexandra Jones to…
IB67A
Leandro Cuccioli, Steve de Bonvoisin, Raquel Gonzalez-Dalmau Lopes Gustavo, McKern R.
2007
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, American Colonial Heritage, Inc. (ACH) was a top-ten U.S. furniture manufacturer focused on the upper end of the indoor home furniture market. Founded in 1926, ACH had $517 million in revenue in FY2005. By January…
HR30
David Hoyt, Hayagreeva Rao
2007
In mid-2007, Infosys was an extremely successful business. Headquartered in India, it had played an important role in transforming global business. Revenues were growing rapidly, and the company was highly profitable. The company’s revenue growth was…
EM3
Victoria Chang, William Guttentag, Roderick Kramer
2007
New York-born Denise Di Novi was a rare breed in Hollywood—She had become a high-powered and highly successful movie producer within a small elite “boy’s club” coterie while raising two sons and having a fulfilling family life. Despite the fact that 50…
E283
R. Ellis, Sean Harrington
2007
Bob Lazier was the CEO of his family’s business that manufactured high quality components used primarily in laundry machines. Despite LI’s strong overall financial standing, Lazier was worried about a plateau in sales over the past six months and…
E253
Katherine Bose, H. Grousbeck
2007
After several quarters of missed numbers, the protagonist, a director on the board of The Private Bank, calls into question the competence of the founder, Chairman, CEO and President of the Bank. Intra-board conflict ensues as does conflict about how to…
E251B
Patrick Arippol, Peter Wendell
2007
The Daksh Business Plan Case (A) enables the study of early business formation and venture capital funding within an international setting. This case relates to the company’s first round of funding in December 15, 1999. Sanjeev Aggarwal co-founded Daksh…
E251A
Patrick Arippol, Peter Wendell
2007
The Daksh Business Plan Case (A) enables the study of early business formation and venture capital funding within an international setting. This case relates to the company’s first round of funding in December 15, 1999. Sanjeev Aggarwal co-founded Daksh…
E242
Patrick Arippol, H. Grousbeck
2007
This case describes a series of 3 vignettes confronted by a fast-growing extended warranty services company, Extended Service Plans of America (ESPA). Doug Tudor had become the company’s president after completing its acquisition for Asurion Corporation…
E259
Bethany Coates, Andrew Rachleff
2007
Chris Rust strained to reach a small finger-hold on his rock-climbing route up El Capitan, a 3,000-ft vertical cliff in Yosemite National Park. Rust, the founder of Mahi Networks (Mahi), a start-up telecom equipment manufacturer, had decided to take the…
SPM35
George Foster, David Hoyt
2007
In 2004, energy drink company Red Bull considered purchasing the Jaguar Formula One (F1) racing team from Ford Motor Company. F1 was the pinnacle of international auto racing, and Red Bull had previously sponsored F1 teams and drivers. At the time, Red…
M316
James Lattin
2007
In November 1997, Richard D. Fairbank, Chairman and CEO of Capital One Financial Corporation, was reflecting on the success of his company since its initial public offering (IPO) in 1994. The success had come primarily from one business: credit cards….
SM160
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
The case describes the actions taken by HP’s CEO Mark Hurd in his first two years leading the company.
SPM33
Antonio Davila, George Foster, Jaume Llopis
2007
In 2006, Futbol Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) was one of the world’s premier soccer teams. Founded in 1899, the club had experienced ups and downs over its history. Following some great years in the mid-1990s, the club had suffered a decline both…
SM165
Robert Burgelman, Margaret LeBrecque
2007
The case discusses the challenges Intel Corporation faced when it entered the cellular and handheld communications devices platforms businesses.
SM161
Robert Burgelman, Steve Chung
2007
The case profiles the US market entry strategy decision for CDNetworks, a KOSDAQ-listed Korean technology company. CD Networks provides its customers with a content delivery network (CDN) to facilitate efficient delivery of rich media files over the…
SM163B
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
This case describes the strategies and interaction of the Kinetics Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. In particular, it shows how these two organizations, although quite different from each other, collaborate toward a common mission of…
OB70V
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2007
Heidi Roizen, a well known technology entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, talks about social networking and how she grows and maintains her very large network. Roizen discusses why she likes networking and how she uses tools such as e-mail…
SI78
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
In 1999, the Germany-based Bertelsmann Foundation and the U.S.-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation jointly established the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network (“TCFN”). TCFN was a learning organization comprised of community foundations and…
SM162
Robert Burgelman, Brooke Blumenstein
2007
This case study examines the plans for a new knowledge management system at Katzenbach Partners LLC, a 150-employee management consultancy, from the perspective of the firm’s managing partner. The case covers both system functionality as well as plans for…
SM156
Evan Berrett, Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
Creating Centrino required Intel to make major changes to its strategy and organization. The development of Centrino was part of Intel’s “right hand turn” toward increased performance measures, including improvements coming from increased power…
