SM151
Robert Burgelman, Aneesha Capur
2006
This case describes Infosys Technologies’ approach to growing the company by expanding its service offerings; moving up the value chain to offer higher end consulting services; improving its brand equity and recognition as a global company; increasing…
SM146B
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2006
This case reveals the decision made concerning whether and where to locate a new fab in 2002. It discusses the specific decision made by the CEO and discusses the rationale for the fab location decision. This case should be used in conjunction with SM…
SM124B
Robert Burgelman, Christof Wittig
2006
MySQL, an open source software firm, grew from a small $10M in 2004 into a successful $60M business by 2006. As it had anticipated, MySQL attracted the attention of the big three IT companies, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. Actively defending their high…
OB54
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2006
DaVita, one of the largest operators of kidney dialysis centers in the U.S., has undergone a remarkable turnaround between 2000 and 2005, a transformation premised on building a strong values-driven culture with an emphasis on fact-based decision making…
M315
Wasim Azhar
2006
In late June 1987, Mr. Asad Ali, proprietor of Regal Electrogas, was confronted with an important decision regarding the pricing of his company’s desert coolers. The market price for this product had risen by approximately 5 percent in the wake of new…
SM91
William Barnett, Peter Lorentzen
2006
In 1999, Bo Shao, a Chinese national with a U.S. BA and MBA, returned to China to set up an online auction firm. While initial venture capital funding came easily, China’s low level of development created many other challenges that would not have arisen…
SPM30
George Foster, Mike Harkey
2006
Former National Football League (NFL) greats Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton launched a venture capital fund-of-funds in 1999 at the height of a venture capital bubble and called their new fund Champion Ventures. Champion became known for raising money…
SM154B
V. Viard, Pamela Yatsko
2006
Personal computer game maker Blizzard filed a lawsuit in 2002 against the developers of the bnetd project. The bnetd project was a volunteer effort of game enthusiasts and programmers frustrated with difficulties encountered playing Blizzard’s personal…
SPM29A
George Foster, Mike Harkey
2006
First conceived as a business plan in Stanford Business School’s “Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities” class, the Golden Baseball League is an independent baseball league in California and Arizona. The case tracks the development of the business…
SPM32
George Foster, Mike Harkey, Claire Magat
2006
Mike Kerns and Jeff Ma founded ProTrade in April of 2004. The original concept was an innovative online stock market for athletes that utilized sophisticated algorithms to compute the value of athletes’ performance. However, despite the highly…
SM148
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend, Robert Siegel
2006
In January 2005, Robert Siegel paused to reflect on the whirlwind of activities that had consumed him over the past three months. In August 2004, Siegel joined General Electric’s $1.3 billion security division as the general manager of GE Video Solutions…
SPM28
Victoria Chang, George Foster
2006
By 2006, Charlotte-based Street & Smith’s Sports Group (a division of American City Business Journals—ACBJ, a unit of Advance Publications) had built a franchise of sports business information resources (called the Sports Business Group). Publications…
SPM29B
George Foster, Mike Harkey
2006
The Golden Baseball League (A) case tracks the evolution of the start-up independent baseball league from business plan to the start of its inaugural season. The Golden Baseball League (B) case tracks the league’s performance in season one; its successes…
SM147
Mark Leslie, James Lattin, Mike Harkey
2006
Scalix Corporation, a Linux-based e-mail and calendaring software company, was founded in 2002 by Julie Hanna Farris while she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Mayfield, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA. The case is about the evolution of…
M313A
Wasim Azhar
2006
In early January 1989, Irfan Mustafa, General Manager, Personal Products and Market Research, Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited, was wondering what action to take regarding the marketing of the laundry detergent bar RIN, which had been introduced to the…
SM150
Victoria Chang, Garth Saloner
2006
For the die-hard cycling enthusiast, the Spring Classics, Dura-Ace components, and Phil Liggett were words that conjured up exciting images and enthusiastic anticipation for a new road bike racing season. Cyclists often spoke of the wind in their faces…
SM149A
Debbie Choy, Justin McNabney, James Phills, Erica Vaughan, Yubo Zhou
2006
Founded in 1989, Teach for America (TFA) was a nonprofit organization that placed highly qualified college graduates into 1,000 under-resourced urban and rural public schools across the country to teach for two years. The enthusiasm of the founding…
M312
Lyn,Denend , Brian Lowery, S. Wheeler
2006
Christine Hamilton, Karen Knight, and Brenda Haden had all played an instrumental role in helping develop PacifiCare’s African American Health Solutions (AAHS), a program focused on improving the health outcomes of African Americans by providing…
SM149B
Debbie Choy, Justin McNabney, James Phills, Erica Vaughan, Yubo Zhou
2006
This B case describes what became of Teach For America’s (TFA) attempt to expand its program into the San Francisco Unified School District. It discusses what TFA learned from this attempt and what changes were made throughout the organization to promote…
SI63
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2006
Late Palo Alto industrialist William R. Hewlett, his wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett and their eldest son, Walter B. Hewlett, established the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (“Hewlett Foundation”) in 1966. The foundation’s guiding principle, as stated by…
SI92
James Phills, Victoria Chang
2006
Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, MPR evolved from a small public station that 26-year-old William Kling established at St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 1967. By 2004, Kling’s venture had grown into a regional network of…
SPM31B
George Foster, David Hoyt
2006
This is a short follow-up to SPM-31A: Canary Fund and the San Jose Grand Prix. It presents results of the 2005 event, from the perspectives of the promoter, fans, city, and racing series.
OIT52
Erica Plambeck, Joshua Spitzer
2006
This technical note presents basic background information on the technology, economic forces, and non-market issues that affect ethanol’s supply, distribution, and demand. While it recognizes significant controversies, it does not attempt to summarize or…
OIT51
Elizabeth, Rodriguez, Stefanos Zenios
2006
In 2006, all major U.S. dialysis providers were facing a daunting set of challenges. Having survived a period of intense consolidation and ever-diminishing operating margins, they were now struggling to understand what lay ahead. With more than 80…
