SI71
Davina Drabkin, David Hanley, James Phills
2006
Iftekhar Enayetullah and Maqsood Sinha, co-founders of Waste Concern in Bangladesh, had earned an international reputation for their innovative approach to dealing with the vast quantities of waste that threatened to overwhelm the overcrowded city of…
SI60
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2006
Community Foundation Silicon Valley (“CFSV”) was founded in 1954 as the “Community Trust of Santa Clara County” with a broad mission—to help improve the community. It experienced explosive growth in the 1990s and 2000s with assets increasing more than 80…
SI69A
James Phills, Hilary Stockton
2006
Circus Oz was Australia’s premier international circus, having performed in 26 countries on five continents. The organization was best known for cutting-edge acts and its quintessentially Australian combination of social satire, inclusiveness…
SI68
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2006
Established in 1992, the San Francisco-based McKay Foundation supported organizations that addressed income inequality and poverty. The McKay Foundation focused on developing long-term, community-based solutions to social and economic problems. Robert…
SI85
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Joshua Spitzer
2006
In January 2006, the PRI Makers Network and Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Center for Social Innovation sponsored the first annual Program-Related Investments (PRI) Conference in Palo Alto, California. The conference brought together 150…
EM2
Victoria Chang, William Guttentag, Roderick Kramer
2006
By 2006, 40-year-old Nina Jacobson, described as “lean as a marathoner, energetic, verbal and intense, all sharp angles and elbows,” had become one of the heavy-hitters in the traditionally male-dominated entertainment business, as the president of Walt…
E232
Mark Leslie, James Lattin, Mike Harkey
2006
This case introduces the fictional software company Clearion Software as a tool for evaluating different strategies for setting quotas, allocating headcount, and assigning territories in a growing sales organization. The protagonist of the case is Mark…
E211
R. Ellis, Garth Saloner, Alex Tauber
2006
The case starts by describing a typical day in the life of Randy Hetrick, the founder and sole full-time employee of Fitness Anywhere. Hetrick starts his work day on Friday, September 10, 2004, at 6:00 a.m. By 8:30 p.m., he has accomplished a lot….
CG4B
Robert Daines, Davina Drabkin
2006
The B case summarizes what PeopleSoft decided regarding the “Customer Assurance Plan” (CAP), the result of court hearings, and how Oracle’s hostile takeover bid was resolved. This case should be used with the A case.
E201
Harold Grousbeck, Joel Peterson, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Alex Tauber
2006
The goal of this note is to explore three common CEO missteps frequently witnessed by these three directors which can cause great damage to an organization. A three-step approach is used to discuss each misstep: Identify the issue; Use literature on…
E195
Dick Allen, Mike Harkey
2006
This case presents a study of Don Milder’s path to entrepreneurship out of business school. He began his post-business school career in a corporate development role at Dynatech Corporation. At 27, he was offered the opportunity to run a small division…
E190
R. Ellis, Alex Tauber
2006
This note is intended to familiarize non-MBAs with some concepts and terms that will be used in the class S356, Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities. It is not intended to be exhaustive. It covers the following building blocks for creating an…
EC35
Eiichiro Kazumori, John McMillan
2006
Sothebys.com operated from 2000 to 2003, during the tail end of the dot-com boom, in an economy threatened by recession and in a period when the art market overall was depressed. Historically, luxury goods have not sold well during recessions, and Sotheby…
E210
Patrick Arippol, R. Ellis, Joshua Spitzer
2006
The University Games case chronicles the board game company’s early formation and growth, and culminates in two issues often faced by business owners: (a) what to do about the over-dependence that the company has developed with its founder/CEO, and (b)…
E209
Mark Leslie, James Lattin, Joshua Spitzer
2006
Acquired through a search fund, Presidio Solutions offers an outsourced sales solution for technology companies. Presidio Solutions only sells renewals of service and maintenance contracts on their clients’ hardware and software products. The rapidly…
E220
William Barnett, Ziad Mokhtar, Gabriel Tavridis
2006
In just over two years, Mark Zuckerberg had built the Internet directory service Facebook from nothing more than an idea into a national phenomenon worthy of a reported $750 million buyout offer. The organization had grown from just a few friends…
E221
Charles Holloway, John Morgridge, Joshua Spitzer
2006
“ExlService: Business Process Outsourcing in India” charts the development of outsourcing service provider ExlService. Founded by Indian nationals Vikram Talwar and Rohit Kapoor, the firm has moved through several phases of evolution. At the conclusion…
IB65
R. McKern, Marisol Vidal Palma
2006
In 2006, the confectionery industry was one of the most dynamic and innovative sectors within the food industry. Although its fragmented nature across the globe allowed the entrance of new competitors, consumers favored established brands and new entrants…
IB74
Antonio Davila, George Foster, Corinne Putt, Anne Somjen
2006
Starbucks was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Ziegler and Gordon Bowker - three men from Seattle who loved coffee. By 1995, Starbucks had expanded to 676 stores, all within the U.S. or Vancouver, Canada. Only in the next decade did Starbucks make…
HR25B
Aneesha Capur, Charles O'Reilly III, Tim Perlstein
2006
In 2001, Libby Sartain, Chief People Officer, arrived at Yahoo! to find a demoralized Internet company without a well-defined culture, a coordinated method to communicate with employees, or developed processes, policies and procedures. In Sartain’s first…
E222
Andrew Rachleff, Joshua Spitzer
2006
FHP Wireless develops and sells Wi-Fi networking hardware with value-added software to create “wireless meshes,” the technology that makes metro-scale Wi-Fi coverage possible. A wireless mesh connects many wireless routers together in a network that…
E233
H. Grousbeck, Mike Harkey
2006
This case tracks three difficult situations faced by Rick Corcoran during his tenure career as an aspiring entrepreneur. In September 2003, his partner abruptly abandoned their handshake agreement and left him without a source of income. With his second…
E224
William Barnett, Mike Harkey
2006
This case tracks the development of telecommunications software provider Volantis from its launch in 2000 to March 2006. The company’s investors and founders had mis-timed its market opportunity and, by March 2006, had spent more than five years waiting…
CG4A
Robert Daines, Davina Drabkin, Vinay Nair
2006
In June of 2003, PeopleSoft management announced a merger with J.D. Edwards. Within hours of the announcment, Oracle had launched an hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft. Oracle’s bid raised enormously difficult questions for the PeopleSoft board…
