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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
IB24A
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…
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…
E126
Janet Feldstein, John Glynn Jr.
2002
This case tells the story of protagonist Frank Ruderman and his evolution from entrepreneur to “traditional” angel investor and later to “innovative” angel or hybrid investor. The case introduces Ruderman’s investing group, Tenex-Greenhouse, and then…
F163
R. McKern
2002
Dozier Industries was a U.S. manufacturer of electronic security systems. In 1994, it received a large order from the United Kingdom, which stipulated payment in Pounds. The company received a deposit, with the balance expected to be paid in 90 days. The…
GS28
Seungjin Whang
2002
In 1992, Japan’s Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) spun off its wireless phone service, forming NTT DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo introduced “I-Mode,” a wireless data service in November 1998. At the time of introduction, this was a new, untested market….
A183
Mary Barth, Susan Mackenzie
2002
Since FY 1999, P&G had reported restructuring charges each quarter for Organization 2005, a five-year comprehensive corporate restructuring program. In 1995, FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) issued a consensus opinion (EITF-94-3) that defined…
A184
Christopher Canellos, David Hoyt
2002
In 1993, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued two Statements, Number 116: Accounting for Contributions Received and Contributions Made, and Number 117: Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations. These required significant changes to…
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…
E116A
Garth Saloner, Janet Feldstein
2002
Scott Brady, Dave Leeds, Harpinder “Harpi” Singh Madan, and Eric Botto met at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) at the height of the dot-com boom. Harpi and Dave first met in 1998 as first-year students in Stanford’s MBA program. Both came…
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.
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…
