E120
Christopher Flanagan, H. Grousbeck
2002
A search fund is an investment vehicle in which investors financially support an entrepreneurs’ efforts to locate and acquire a privately held company. This study examines investment returns of first-time search funds.
E107
Christopher Flanagan, Charles Holloway
2002
This case examines the myriad of issues faced by two entrepreneurs who use the “search fund” model to search for, purchase, and ultimately operate a home health care services company. The “search fund” is a proven investment vehicle through which a group…
HR10
Charles O'Reilly III
2002
How does a high technology firm successfully grow and compete in a market where software may be obsolete in 12 months? Cisco Systems, with annual revenues of more then $8 billion and a market capitalization larger than General Motors, is a leader in the…
E78
Jeffrey Chambers, Janet Feldstein, Brian Trelstad
2002
The case reviews the company’s history, starting in the late 1980s when Brettler formed the company with his own savings in 1987. It details the early stages of the company, its initial strategy, and its on-going successes. CarToys was a consistently…
E119
Victoria Chang, George Parker
2002
Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Internet Capital Group (ICG), a Business-to-Business e-commerce (B2B) holding company was one of the most anticipated IPOs in 1999. ICG’s goal was to build companies that could obtain number one or two positions in their…
E140A
William Barnett, Janet Feldstein
2002
In the spring of 2001, two recent graduates of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, John Fowler and Josh Greenberg, founded Montebello Capital, a search fund, as a vehicle for buying a company that they would run as CEO and president. The case follows…
IB24B
Sea-Jin Chang, Joel Podolny
2002
In 2000, Samsung Electronics was the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductor memory chips. It’s main line of business was the manufacture of DRAM chips, but worldwide demand had plummeted. Moreover, Intel, the world’s largest producer of…
E118
Terry Anderson, Susan Mackenzie
2002
Environmental entrepreneur Andrew Mangan promoted by-product synergy (BPS) programs as a means to achieve sustainable development goals. BPS is a process that helps companies discover new ways to convert their wastes into saleable commodities. Mangan’s…
E106A
Janet Feldstein, John Glynn Jr.
2002
The case introduced Matt Harris, the young (28 years old) co-founder and CEO of Village Ventures (VVI), a venture capital company. VVI is “ a vehicle for inventing in high growth companies located in high potential markets that are rich in intellectual…
IB41
Michael Hannan, John McMillan, Joel Podolny, Mary Ann Warren
2002
In the fall of 1999, Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), anticipated that the WTO’s talks in Seattle in December, 1999 would focus on improving living standards around the world, bettering the environment, providing more…
IB40A
H. deBettignies, L. Downey
2002
In December 1998, Ron Wilson, chief executive of Mobil Oil Indonesia (MOI) considered how he should respond to allegations made by a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that Mobil had been complicit in serious human rights abuses in Aceh…
IB29
Lawal Dosunmu, John McMillan
2002
The U.S. energy company AES is in the process of entering the Nigerian market through acquisition of a controlling equity interest in a 270 megawatt power generator project. AES has a unique mode of organization and operation that emphasizes integrity…
IB30A
Kanika Bahl, John Newsome, Joel Podolny
2002
In 2001 Dr. Brian Brink, Senior Vice President of Anglo American, a massive South African mining conglomerate, was debating how to confront the ravages that extremely high HIV/AIDS rates were taking on Anglo’s workforce and overall productivity….
E131
John Glynn Jr., Andrea Higuera
2002
Since the 1960s, corporate venture capital has had a mixed history. Companies seem to form separate venture capital programs during boom years and then withdraw their commitments during economic downturns. To enable students to both learn about corporate…
E127
Janet Feldstein, John Glynn Jr.
2002
This is an “industry note” introducing Angel Investing as a concept and discussing recent developments in the industry. Angel Investing has been a long standing practice, dating back to Broadway play financiers at the turn of the 20th century, and…
OB36B
David Hoyt, Margaret Neale
2001
Case B describes the negotiations leading to the rescue of the fund by a consortium of banks. The case is based on Roger Lowenstein’s book “When Genius Failed” and was developed with his permission.
SI13
Pehr Luedtke, William Meehan III
2001
Eastside College Preparatory School was founded in 1996 to give students in the economically depressed communities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park a viable option for high school education. This case describes the formation, management, and challenges of…
OB36A
David Hoyt, Margaret Neale
2001
In 1993, John Meriwether, former head of arbitrage and bond trading at Salomon Brothers, put together the smartest group of bond arbitrage experts ever assembled. The group included a number of professors, two of whom were future Nobel laureates in…
M296
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2001
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), started in 1971, was a nonprofit consumer group that focused on nutrition and health, food safety, and alcohol policy. The center was known for its eye-opening reports about restaurant food. Not only…
M295B
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2001
Supplement to the (A) Case
M295A
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2001
The low budget horror film, The Blair Witch Project, was one of the biggest success stories in film history based on the ratio of production cost to revenue. Costing only $35,000 to create, it generated $48 million in its first week of wide release (on 1…
GS3A
Laura Kopczak, Hau Lee
2001
This case describes a challenge faced by HP’s Vancouver Division in 1990. Although its new inkjet printers were selling well, inventory levels worldwide were rising as sales rose. In Europe, high product variety was making inventory levels especially high…
