F318
Mike Harmon
2022
Financial restructuring for a distressed firm and its significant counterparties is the process of “recontracting.” This involves significantly altering, replacing, or terminating key financial contracts for the purpose of rehabilitation. Most of these…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SM350
Robert Siegel, Jack Strabo
2021
This case details the journey of Sandeep Mathrani as he took over as CEO of WeWork, a flexible space provider, in the aftermath of the company’s attempted IPO. To execute his turnaround plan, Mathrani must navigate a global pandemic, execute layoffs…
SM352
Mooweon Rhee, Jae-Gu Kim, William P. Barnett
2021
South Korean steelmaking giant POSCO in 2021 had become a global company with businesses in 52 countries. In 2018, POSCO’s new chairman and CEO had inaugurated a broader business philosophy, espousing “Corporate Citizenship” practices as a way for the…
E764
Kathryn Shaw, Francois Chaubard, James Jedras
2021
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…
