SI57
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2002
Founded in 1969, Interplast was a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit organization that provided free reconstructive surgery for needy children and adults in developing nations. It partnered with local medical professionals to provide surgery and related care…
SM97
Antonio Davila, George Foster, Ning Jia
2002
This case introduces the story of RedMed, the leading provider of sleep apnea devices. The company, founded by Dr. Peter Farrell and Dr. Colin Sullivan (the device’s inventor) in Australia, quickly became international. The company set up a second…
SM72C
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2002
The case examines the proposed merger between HP and Compaq and explores the impact of this merger upon the companies and the industry as a whole. In particular, the case explores the challenges that a combined HP and Compaq will have competing in…
SPM1
George Foster, Callie Neuman
2002
On July 9, 1999, Bryan Perez, vice president of business development for Southwest Sports Group (SSG), was facing a dilemma. The next day he was scheduled to meet with Mike Cramer, COO of SSG, and Tom Hicks, the controlling shareholder of SSG, to propose…
OB63
Stoyan Sgourev, Ezra Zuckerman
2002
Peer networks are sets of non-competing firms in the same line of business, gathering on a regular basis to share information on relative performance and business practices. Peer networks provide a unique solution to the growing need of firms to…
SM24C
Robert Burgelman, Frederic Descamps, Philip Meza
2002
Electronic Arts is a highly successful creator of video games for consoles and PCs. The company also creates content for online gaming. EA occupies a unique place in the information processing industry. The company must have the skills of a Hollywood…
SPM4
George Foster, Amy Wustefeld
2002
Cable industry veteran Leo Hindery hung up the telephone in disgust. It was June 2002, and he had just received a call from his lawyer Alan Vickery telling him that Cablevision had requested 660 days to prepare to defend the lawsuit filed against them by…
SPM2
George Foster, Susan Mackenzie
2002
On November 4, 2002, Redsfans Capital (a fictitious investor group) met in their Liverpool offices to discuss a potential investment. Die-hard fans of Liverpool Football Club, the investors wanted to purchase a majority interest in the club, and needed…
OB39
Jennifer Buechel, John Jost
2002
Helen Priano, manufacturing manager at General Grain’s Michigan Cereal Facility had two critical decisions to make in early February 2002. Helen needed to decide whether or not to fire a 30-year veteran employee and if she should drop charges against an…
SM90C
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2002
When USA Networks sold its movie and television assets, the company renamed itself USA Interactive. The sale represented a significant shift in the company’s asset base and strategy. Some thought that the sale of USA Networks’ media assets put to rest…
SM79
Janet Feldstein, Christopher Flanagan, Charles Holloway
2002
This case introduces Handspring, a manufacturer of handheld devices, and concentrates particularly on the company’s and founders’ historical and forward-looking relationships. At the time of the case Handspring is generating approximately $500 million…
SM88
Janet Feldstein, Ezra Zuckerman
2002
This case gives an in-depth look at the emergence of Venture Capital in Israel — tracing not only the industry itself, but also its many drivers including high technology and its roots in Israel (government sponsorship, etc.). The case examines the VC…
RE131
Craig Blanchard, Jack Kolodny, Joel Peterson
2002
Analysis of an investment in a distressed healthcare Real Estate Investment Trust.
OIT34
Andrea Higuera, Charles Holloway
2002
In May 2000, Sonia Syngal, director of procurement strategy and supplier relations at Sun Microsystems, needed to make a critical decision. Under Sonia’s leadership, the company had just completed its first “dynamic bidding” pilot tests and as a result…
SM100
Robert Burgelman, Yann Ngongang, Juan Posada, Ben Shih
2002
CIENA Corporation designs, manufactures and markets intelligent optical networking systems and software, for service providers and enterprises worldwide. The company grew rapidly as the market for telecommunications equipment exploded with the Internet…
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…
SI36
William Barnett, Brady Beaubien, William Durham
2002
The Galapagos Islands are referred to as the birthplace of modern day ecotourism. Alongside fishing, the business of providing “eco-tours” has become the principle means of income for the approximately 16,000 inhabitants spread among the five inhabited…
SI12
David Brady, Karen Jacobson
2002
In 1992, the Reichs started an innovative public school in a low-income area of New York City to provide quality education to urban children that the public school system was not serving properly. They had founded the Beginning with Children Foundation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
