SPM4
George Foster, Amy Wustefeld
2002
Cable industry veteran Leo Hindery hung up the telephone in disgust. It was June 2002, and he had just received a call from his lawyer Alan Vickery telling him that Cablevision had requested 660 days to prepare to defend the lawsuit filed against them by…
SM90C
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2002
When USA Networks sold its movie and television assets, the company renamed itself USA Interactive. The sale represented a significant shift in the company’s asset base and strategy. Some thought that the sale of USA Networks’ media assets put to rest…
SM79
Janet Feldstein, Christopher Flanagan, Charles Holloway
2002
This case introduces Handspring, a manufacturer of handheld devices, and concentrates particularly on the company’s and founders’ historical and forward-looking relationships. At the time of the case Handspring is generating approximately $500 million…
SM88
Janet Feldstein, Ezra Zuckerman
2002
This case gives an in-depth look at the emergence of Venture Capital in Israel — tracing not only the industry itself, but also its many drivers including high technology and its roots in Israel (government sponsorship, etc.). The case examines the VC…
RE131
Craig Blanchard, Jack Kolodny, Joel Peterson
2002
Analysis of an investment in a distressed healthcare Real Estate Investment Trust.
OIT34
Andrea Higuera, Charles Holloway
2002
In May 2000, Sonia Syngal, director of procurement strategy and supplier relations at Sun Microsystems, needed to make a critical decision. Under Sonia’s leadership, the company had just completed its first “dynamic bidding” pilot tests and as a result…
SM100
Robert Burgelman, Yann Ngongang, Juan Posada, Ben Shih
2002
CIENA Corporation designs, manufactures and markets intelligent optical networking systems and software, for service providers and enterprises worldwide. The company grew rapidly as the market for telecommunications equipment exploded with the Internet…
OD3A
William Barnett, Glenn Carroll, Greg Powell
2002
In October 1999, Wind River Systems announced a reorganization after merging with Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI), their chief rival and competitor in the embedded software space. The restructuring shifted Wind River’s organization from a “horizontal”…
P32
David Baron
2002
In February 2000, USA Today disclosed DoubleClick’s plan to merge its anonymous online data with Abacus Direct’s database. DoubleClick, the industry leader in Internet advertising services, quickly suspended its plan to merge the databases. The company…
SI36
William Barnett, Brady Beaubien, William Durham
2002
The Galapagos Islands are referred to as the birthplace of modern day ecotourism. Alongside fishing, the business of providing “eco-tours” has become the principle means of income for the approximately 16,000 inhabitants spread among the five inhabited…
SI12
David Brady, Karen Jacobson
2002
In 1992, the Reichs started an innovative public school in a low-income area of New York City to provide quality education to urban children that the public school system was not serving properly. They had founded the Beginning with Children Foundation…
OD2
Glenn Carroll
2002
In 1997, the American Heart Association (AHA), Western States Affiliate reorganized in order to increase fundraising revenues for the nonprofit. Rather than a wide range of fundraising and programmatic duties, all staff were now defined by key…
SI25
Peter Laub, James Phills
2002
A non-profit organization founded in 1990, Innermotion was a dance company that presented performances based on themes related to incest and childhood sexual abuse as well as therapeutic workshops for survivors of such abuse. The organization consisted of…
E135A
William Barnett, Andrea Higuera, Aimee Swanson
2002
SkyStream Networks was a worldwide networking infrastructure company whose products enabled service providers to create new revenue streams by delivering digital media services like corporate communications, live broadcast video, enhanced TV, media asset…
IB36
John McMillan
2002
Gazprom, the Russian natural-gas production and distribution firm which by some measures is the largest energy company in the world, has been very cheaply valued ever since its privatization. Reasons for this include the general uncertainty prevailing in…
E198
William Barnett, Peter Lorentzen
2002
This teaching note describes the economic, financial and political environment faced by entrepreneurial firms in China in the year 2002. The note discusses the economic reform process, the relationship between business and government , and challenges…
IB38
George Foster, Andrea Higuera
2002
This case provides an overview of the founding and development of the biotechnology firm, GenPharm International, Inc., with a particular focus on its globalization strategy. GenPharm was founded in 1989 and quickly became a pioneer in the field of…
BP271B
Steven Brandt
2002
HBI is a company with lackluster performance and a variety of issues requiring management attention.
BP271A
Steven Brandt
2002
HBI is a company with lackluster performance and a variety of issues requiring management attention.
BP272A
Steven Brandt
2002
In 2002, Dr. Jose Garcia, president of Lonestar Electronics Inc., convened the company’s managing board and raised the issue of company productivity. Garcia believed that Lonestar, a designer and manufacturer of instruments and systems headquartered in…
E138
Mark Benning, Dennis Rohan, Alicia Seiger
2002
The case is a full-scale business plan for the launch of an Internet service provider for the Pacific Rim. Set in 1993, the case has a short introduction followed by the business plan for PacNet. Dr. Kevin Wong, PacNet’s founder, plans to take advantage…
E4
Harold Grousbeck, Kevin Taweel
2002
Bob Nylen and Dan Okrent were publisher and editors respectively, ex New England Monthly, a regional magazine the pair founded in 1983. Although not a financial success thus far - the magazine continually operated in the red - it was an editorial hit. It…
E135B
William Barnett, Andrea Higuera, Aimee Swanson
2002
This case is not a stand-alone case, but rather should be used in conjunction with the case SkyStream Networks (A) E-135. It has been designed to be handed out to students during class following a discussion of Case A. Case A chronicles the history of…
E122
Andrea Higuera, Charles Holloway
2002
After opening the first Gordon Biersch brewery restaurant in July 1988 in Palo Alto, California, Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch successfully built Gordon Biersch into a $20 million company with restaurants in five locations and a small retail beer business….
