E792
Anne Beyer, Robert E Siegel, Donna Bebb
2022
Lex Machina, a legal analytics start-up, needed cash to drive its continued growth trajectory, and had an appealing Series B term sheet in hand. Founded initially as a joint public interest project between SLS and Stanford’s computer science department…
E772
George Foster, Sheila Melvin
2022
When Afresh CEO and cofounder Matt Schwartz enrolled at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (GSB) in 2015, he had a singular obsession—healthy food, to benefit both individuals and the planet—and an ironclad determination: to found a…
E774A
Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Dominic Mirabile
2022
This case describes a fictional company, FlexShyft, as its cofounders navigate and negotiate the terms of an offer to invest in the company’s Series B financing round. The cofounders review and evaluate each clause of the term sheet from the venture…
SM355
Glenn Carroll, Lucy Montgomery
2022
Ascend Behavior Partners provided applied behavioral analysis (ABA) services to families with children with autism. The growing autism services market presented a massive opportunity for Ascend to provide quality care to families in need. Ascend’s…
E767
Graham Weaver, Dominic Mirabile
2022
This case follows the formation and growth of Guild, a company founded on the mission to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling for working employees. By connecting employees to educational programs through its three…
E771
Amir Goldberg, Robert Siegel, Dominic Mirabile
2022
This case follows the organic growth story of ServiceNow, a workflow platform serving enterprise customers. ServiceNow found product-market fit in streamlining workflows for IT service management. It later evolved its product, engineering, and go-to…
OB110
Nir Halevy, Lorena Ostos
2022
The case chronicles the challenges of a consulting team charged with developing and executing a negotiation strategy designed to help a large retailer cut costs by renegotiating their contract with their largest supplier.
The disguised case begins by…
E110
David Dodson, Gelila Bekele
2022
This case tells the story of Graham Weaver as he forms and grows Alpine ventures, a private equity firm he started while still a student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Over the course of twenty years, Weaver built a private equity firm…
SM340(A)
George Foster, Sheila Melvin
2021
In early April 2019, the executive team of San Jose-based Zoom Video Communications gathered in the company conference room to strategize about their messaging for a planned IPO, an event that only a few years earlier would have seemed improbable to many…
SI135B
Jaclyn Foroughi, Maureen McNichols
2021
In January 2021, Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld (MBA ’92), cofounder and executive director of MiracleFeet, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating untreated clubfoot for good, found herself at yet another crossroad. In just over a decade, the organization, which…
E766
Robert Chess, Imogen Mansfield
2021
This case details the introduction of liquid biopsy technology, an innovative non-invasive cancer test that looks for tumor cells and pieces of tumor cells DNA circulating in the blood. The note explores the development of liquid biopsy as an alternative…
E770
Russell Siegelman, Gelila Bekele
2021
Abbey Wemimo and Samir Goel founded Esusu in 2018 to help low-to-moderate-income renters build credit history. Esusu, a for-profit impact focused venture, collected rental payments from property managers and reported this data to major credit bureaus…
E769
Federico Antoni, Jeffrey Conn
2021
This case explores the founding story and growth trajectory of Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures as it grows its operations and asset base alongside the rapidly growing venture ecosystem in Southeast Asia. It also analyzes the core…
E762
Jim Ellis, Imogen Mansfield
2021
This case follows the decision of two Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates, Heather Fernandez and Daniele Farnedi, to start a company together. It explores the criteria they used to assess ideas, how the pair identified an opportunity in…
SI154
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sheila Melvin
2021
This case profiles Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and his goal of reimagining philanthropy in order to build a more just and fair world. Specifically, it looks at how the Ford Foundation has reorganized so as to catalyze leaders and organizations…
E765
Graham Weaver, Jack Strabo
2021
This case follows the formation and early growth of ExecOnline, a provider of leadership development solutions through partnerships with top business schools. Founder Stephen Bailey navigates initial sales and partnerships, key personnel decisions, and…
E757
Graham Weaver, Jack Strabo
2021
This case details the challenges Kiana Nelson faced at Central Valley Towing, a fictional towing company Nelson acquired. In the case, Nelson must decide whether to overrule a direct report’s decision regarding firing an employee, determine what to do…
SPM62
George Foster, Sheila Melvin, Kristina Rose Garrido
2021
On November 1, 2018, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) informed the league that it had decided to opt out of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that had been signed in 2014 and was scheduled to run through 2021. The opt…
E761
Peter Ziebelman, Imogen Mansfield, Dominic Mirabile
2021
The case explores Google’s accelerator programs and its efforts to support underrepresented start-ups that are ready to scale. Students will understand Google’s approach to (1) building accelerator programs, (2) selecting which startups to participate…
A237
Kevin Schulman, Summer Hu, Jiayin Xue, Susan Qi
2021
Cataracts robbed an estimated 65 million people around the world of their vision. In the Himalayas, where hundreds of thousands of people went needlessly blind from cataracts, doctors Sanduk Ruit and Fred Hollows began to tackle this health crisis in 1995…
SM353
Robert Siegel, Lucy Montgomery
2021
George Kurtz founded CrowdStrike in 2011 to bring next-generation cybersecurity products to the marketplace. CrowdStrike used artificial intelligence to train its detection agent on evolving threats. This approach was revolutionary in an industry that had…
E768A
Russell Siegelman, Dominic Mirabile
2021
Byteboard aims to replace the pre-on-site technical interview for software engineers with a more effective, efficient, and equitable web-based assessment. The case follows the founding team’s journey from problem definition and customer development…
SI153
Paul Brest, David Hoyt, Katherine Giordano
2021
Homelessness poses many challenges for young people, including risk of victimization, physical abuse, criminal justice involvement, illness, suicide, dropping out of school, mental health problems, and substance abuse, with long-term consequences for the…
E768B
Russell Siegelman, Dominic Mirabile
2021
Byteboard aims to replace the pre-on-site technical interview for software engineers with a more effective, efficient, and equitable web-based assessment. The case follows the founding team’s journey from problem definition and customer development…
