This listing contains abstracts and ordering information for case studies written and published by faculty at Stanford GSB.
Publicly available cases in this collection are distributed by Harvard Business Publishing and The Case Centre.
Stanford case studies with diverse protagonists, along with case studies that build “equity fluency” by focusing on DEI-related issues and opportunities are listed in the Case Compendium developed by the Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership at the Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Honor Home Care, founded as an on-demand home care company, evolved into the leading home care technology and operations platforms for home care agencies across the U.S. In the last quarter of 2020, the Honor leadership team raised $140 million in Series…
Graham Weaver
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
Addressing Youth Homelessness in Washington State: Systems Dynamics and the Roles of Lived Experts
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…
Focal Systems, with fresh new Series B funding and more new orders than it could handle, believed its novel out-of-stock detection system would prove the sweet spot in the automation of traditional brick and mortar retail stores. Small cameras on store…
In May 2020, as the global pandemic intensified, school doors remained closed, and protests around the world ignited in response to the killing of George Floyd, the team at Reach Capital (“Reach”) found itself at a critical juncture. On the one hand, the…
Could AI-based X-ray scanning platform make flying safer? Airport security officers had just seconds to decide if someone’s luggage contained a knife, gun, explosive, or other potential safety threat, and the human eye was not designed to focus for hours…
Cantaloupe Systems expected to celebrate its first quarterly profit, and the company’s proprietary machine-to-machine communication technology was a hit with owners of vending machines—and investors. Cantaloupe’s systems provided real-time sales data…