E242
Patrick Arippol, H. Grousbeck
2007
This case describes a series of 3 vignettes confronted by a fast-growing extended warranty services company, Extended Service Plans of America (ESPA). Doug Tudor had become the company’s president after completing its acquisition for Asurion Corporation…
E259
Bethany Coates, Andrew Rachleff
2007
Chris Rust strained to reach a small finger-hold on his rock-climbing route up El Capitan, a 3,000-ft vertical cliff in Yosemite National Park. Rust, the founder of Mahi Networks (Mahi), a start-up telecom equipment manufacturer, had decided to take the…
SPM36
George Foster, David Hoyt
2007
In 2006, Red Bull considered purchasing the New York MetroStars of Major League Soccer (MLS). Red Bull already owned one soccer team, ‘Red Bull Salzburg’ located in the company’s headquarters city. The case describes professional soccer in the United…
SM152
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend
2007
In the summer of 2006, Nike announced a major corporate reorganization that would shift the company’s focus to a category-driven approach. The six major business categories were running, men’s training, basketball, soccer, women’s fitness, and sportswear…
SM156
Evan Berrett, Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
Creating Centrino required Intel to make major changes to its strategy and organization. The development of Centrino was part of Intel’s “right hand turn” toward increased performance measures, including improvements coming from increased power…
SPM35
George Foster, David Hoyt
2007
In 2004, energy drink company Red Bull considered purchasing the Jaguar Formula One (F1) racing team from Ford Motor Company. F1 was the pinnacle of international auto racing, and Red Bull had previously sponsored F1 teams and drivers. At the time, Red…
SPM33
Antonio Davila, George Foster, Jaume Llopis
2007
In 2006, Futbol Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) was one of the world’s premier soccer teams. Founded in 1899, the club had experienced ups and downs over its history. Following some great years in the mid-1990s, the club had suffered a decline both…
M316
James Lattin
2007
In November 1997, Richard D. Fairbank, Chairman and CEO of Capital One Financial Corporation, was reflecting on the success of his company since its initial public offering (IPO) in 1994. The success had come primarily from one business: credit cards….
SM160
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
The case describes the actions taken by HP’s CEO Mark Hurd in his first two years leading the company.
OB70V
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2007
Heidi Roizen, a well known technology entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, talks about social networking and how she grows and maintains her very large network. Roizen discusses why she likes networking and how she uses tools such as e-mail…
SM165
Robert Burgelman, Margaret LeBrecque
2007
The case discusses the challenges Intel Corporation faced when it entered the cellular and handheld communications devices platforms businesses.
SM161
Robert Burgelman, Steve Chung
2007
The case profiles the US market entry strategy decision for CDNetworks, a KOSDAQ-listed Korean technology company. CD Networks provides its customers with a content delivery network (CDN) to facilitate efficient delivery of rich media files over the…
SM163B
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
This case describes the strategies and interaction of the Kinetics Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. In particular, it shows how these two organizations, although quite different from each other, collaborate toward a common mission of…
SI78
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
In 1999, the Germany-based Bertelsmann Foundation and the U.S.-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation jointly established the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network (“TCFN”). TCFN was a learning organization comprised of community foundations and…
SM162
Robert Burgelman, Brooke Blumenstein
2007
This case study examines the plans for a new knowledge management system at Katzenbach Partners LLC, a 150-employee management consultancy, from the perspective of the firm’s managing partner. The case covers both system functionality as well as plans for…
SI106B
Victoria Chang, William Meehan III
2007
Case study is a supplement to the A case, to be read in class after students have read the A case and discussed the A case. The B case is an update and discusses what happened after the San Francisco Foundation decided to bring the issue of the Beryl Buck…
SI62
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
The Global Fund for Women (“Global Fund”) was a funding intermediary that made grants to seed, support and strengthen women’s rights groups outside the United States. Global Fund grantees worked to provide women with economic opportunities and…
SM159A
Kim Jonker, William Meehan III
2007
The Rural Defense Institute (RDI) was established in the early 1970s to alleviate poverty by securing land rights for the world’s rural poor. The organization had achieved impressive results through research, reform design, policy advocacy, and…
OIT71A
Lyn Denend, Erica Plambeck
2007
In October 2005, in an auditorium filled to capacity in Bentonville, Arkansas, Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s president and CEO, made the first speech in the history of Wal-Mart to be broadcast to the company’s 1.6 million associates (employees) in all of its 6…
SI86
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
In 1988, Paul Jones, a 32-year-old money manager, founded the philanthropic foundation Robin Hood with $3 million and a mission to fight poverty in New York. He invited two close friends, Peter Borish and Glenn Dubin, to serve as co-founders and recruited…
SI56
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
Susan Ford served as the president and cofounder of the Sand Hill Foundation, a family foundation that made grants to organizations that benefited people on the San Francisco Peninsula. Tom and Susan Ford established the foundation in 1995, reflecting…
SM163A
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
This case describes the creation, mission, strategy and interaction of the Kinetics Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The Kinetics Foundation was created by Intel former Chairman and CEO Andrew S. Grove. The Michael J. Fox Foundation was…
P53A
David Baron, Keith Krehbiel, Brian Tayan
2007
This case describes the initial considerations of Gilead Sciences as it designed a strategy for delivering its AIDS drug Viread to developing nations in Africa. In October 2001, Gilead Sciences received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
SI76
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
In 2000, Jed Emerson founded the Center for Blended Value, a think tank based in Colorado that promoted the concept of “blended value” investments. Emerson applied the concept of blended value to criticize the traditionally impermeable wall between…
