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In a conference room in the northern suburbs of Chicago, excitement was in the air. It was August 2002 and the executive steering committee for Abbott Laboratories’ new rheumatoid arthritis drug had just been notified by the FDA to expect approval…
Acumen Fund is an international venture philanthropy fund that has recently refined its strategy for providing management support to its investments. The Chief Investment Officer is reviewing the performance of a portfolio organization, and against the…
In the most basic sense, a market failure occurs whenever the production or allocation of goods or services by a market is suboptimal. On one hand, this can mean that the output, price, or distribution of products is either inefficient in the sense that…
On September 30, 2004, approximately 250 practitioners and academics met at Stanford University to discuss the rapidly developing field of venture philanthropy. Venture philanthropy draws on lessons from the venture capital industry to help develop…
David Green, Victoria Hale, and Jim Fruchterman had each developed unique and innovative solutions that addressed glaring “market failures.” For Green, and his organization Project Impact, it was a new approach to manufacturing low-cost, high-quality…
Barbara Ladao was the chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Clinic (NHC), a nonprofit health center located in an ethnically diverse, underserved, and complicated community. At the time of the case, the interpersonal dynamics within the…
In a conference room in the northern suburbs of Chicago, excitement was in the air. It was August 2002 and the executive steering committee for Abbott Laboratories’ new rheumatoid arthritis drug had just been notified by the FDA to expect approval…
Barbara Ladao was the chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Clinic (NHC), a nonprofit health center located in an ethnically diverse, underserved, and complicated community. At the time of the case, the interpersonal dynamics within the…
Barbara Ladao was the chief executive officer of the Neighborhood Health Clinic (NHC), a nonprofit health center located in an ethnically diverse, underserved, and complicated community. At the time of the case, the interpersonal dynamics within the…
The vignette briefly recounts the story of how Katrina Garnett single-handedly launched Crossworlds, a successful enterprise application company. The vignette then focuses on two issues that Garnett must wrestle with as she tries to “manage” her Board of…
This case examines three fictional vignettes concerning ethical dilemmas in the sales force. The vignettes are directed at presenting the perspective of the CEO or VP of Sales. The fictional company around which these three vignettes center is called…
The case details the challenges OuterBay faced with respect to its decision to pursue an OEM deal with a very large and well established technology company, EMC. It begins with a description of both companies’ businesses, the history of their relationship…
The vignette starts by presenting Rosemary Brooks’ background. After seven years at Lockheed, Brooks was interested in joining a company where she could take more of a “customer facing” role. Brooks’ healthy appetite for risk, her desire to make an impact…
