A194
Maureen McNichols, Brian Tayan
2007
AMB Property Corporation set out to be a leader in corporate governance and financial reporting. The company, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, develops, and owns industrial properties, believed that its governance and…
A196A
Ron Kasznik, Brian Tayan
2007
This case asks students to review the impact of SFAS 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, in the context of the AOL Time Warner merger. Under SFAS 142, companies were required to perform periodic testing to determine whether economic goodwill had…
E280
Bethany Coates, John Glynn Jr.
2007
Linda Jenkinson, Chairman and CEO of luxury personal services company, LesConcierges (LC), hung up the phone after checking her voicemail in July 2007. She had just received a message from Randy Haykin, an angel investor and board member who had…
E260
Garth Saloner, Bethany Coates, Ana Garcia Azuelo, Jessica Flannery and Haydee Moreno
2007
James Mwangi, the CEO of Equity Bank, a microfinance services provider, oversaw a remarkable turnaround at his organization beginning in the early 1990s. Mwangi’s association with the bank began in 1992, when a founder (who was also a family friend) urged…
GS54
Stacy Duda, LaShawn James, Hau Lee, Zeryn Mackwani, Raul Munoz, David Volk
2007
Starbucks Corporation was the world’s largest specialty coffee retailer, with 2005 annual revenue of $6.4 billion. Despite gigantic growth in specialty coffee in the 1990s, a worldwide oversupply of lower-grade coffee had depressed market prices in the…
GS58
Hau Lee, Brian Tayan
2007
In 1996, Andrea and Barry Coleman launched Riders for Health, a United Kingdom-based nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of transportation systems for health workers in Africa. The nonprofit’s main program, Transportation Resource Management, involved…
CG5
David Larcker, Brian Tayan
2007
Eugene Isenberg, CEO of Nabors Industries, was listed in a 2006 Wall Street Journal article as one of the highest paid executives in the U.S. over the previous 14 years. He received this compensation as a result of a unique bonus arrangement and large…
IB66
Leandro Cuccioli, R. McKern
2006
This case study is concerned with the challenges posed for companies in emerging markets that seek to expand their operations beyond their borders, while maintaining leadership in their industry. The case deals with Arcor, an Argentine-based manufacturer…
IB63
Bruce McKern, Lyn Denend
2006
As of early 2005, Hewlett-Packard (HP) was one of the world’s leading technology companies, offering hundreds of distinct products and services ranging from $100 digital cameras to multi-million dollar outsourcing services. For fiscal 2004, HP recorded…
GS18
Casey Koshijima, Hide Saito, Takafumi Ueda, Steve Van Horne, Seungjin Whang
2006
Seven-Eleven, Inc., founded in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, was the world’s largest operator, franchisor, and licensor of convenience stores. As of 2004, it had 22,648 units worldwide, serving 6 million customers a day (www.7-eleven.com). Of these stores…
EC37
Tristen Langley, Haim Mendelson
2006
Since the company launched its software product in August 2003, the word “Skype” became synonymous with free calls over the Internet. Skype developed software that allowed people around the world to talk to each other for free. Prior to the company’s $2.6…
EM1
Victoria Chang, William Guttentag, Roderick Kramer
2006
Every Tuesday evening, after a hectic day at the NBC Universal offices in Universal City, Neal Baer kicked up his feet to watch the latest episode of the award-winning police television series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU). SVU was part of the…
E228C
George Foster, Joshua Spitzer
2006
The Mountain Hardwear A, B, and C cases cover the founding and rise of the premium outdoor apparel and equipment manufacturer. The A case (set between late 1993 and 1999) addresses the company’s founding, early brand development, and the particular…
E228B
George Foster, Joshua Spitzer
2006
The Mountain Hardwear A, B, and C cases cover the founding and rise of the premium outdoor apparel and equipment manufacturer. The A case (set between late 1993 and 1999) addresses the company’s founding, early brand development, and the particular…
E228A
George Foster, Joshua Spitzer
2006
The Mountain Hardwear A, B, and C cases cover the founding and rise of the premium outdoor apparel and equipment manufacturer. The A case (set between late 1993 and 1999) addresses the company’s founding, early brand development, and the particular…
E214
Joshua Spitzer, Stefanos Zenios
2006
EndoNav developed an innovative medical device that will make colonoscopy procedures easier and faster to perform and less painful to receive. In spite of excellent technology, IP protection, a reasonably large market, and relatively low regulatory risk…
M313A
Wasim Azhar
2006
In early January 1989, Irfan Mustafa, General Manager, Personal Products and Market Research, Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited, was wondering what action to take regarding the marketing of the laundry detergent bar RIN, which had been introduced to the…
SM150
Victoria Chang, Garth Saloner
2006
For the die-hard cycling enthusiast, the Spring Classics, Dura-Ace components, and Phil Liggett were words that conjured up exciting images and enthusiastic anticipation for a new road bike racing season. Cyclists often spoke of the wind in their faces…
SM147
Mark Leslie, James Lattin, Mike Harkey
2006
Scalix Corporation, a Linux-based e-mail and calendaring software company, was founded in 2002 by Julie Hanna Farris while she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Mayfield, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA. The case is about the evolution of…
OIT50
Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2006
By the mid 2000s, no segment of the $180 billion global medical device industry was as dynamic as the market for drug eluting stents (DES). In 2005, two-and-a-half million drug eluting stents were expected to be implanted in patients around the world. In…
OIT49
Robert Chess, Lyn Denend, Stefanos Zenios
2006
In late October 2003, Randy Scott and the Genomic Health team had just received the results of Genomic Health’s first pivotal trial. The company’s product, Oncotype DX, a first-of-its-kind genomic assay that quantified the likelihood of breast cancer…
M309
Michaela Draganska, David Hoyt
2006
In March 2000, Paul Lippe, CEO of SKOLAR, faced several decisions that could determine the fate of his young company. SKOLAR had developed a Web-based information resource for doctors. The site was in beta-test at the Stanford School of Medicine, with…
P54
David Baron
2006
Using servers located in the United States, Google began offering a Chinese-language version of Google.com in 2000. The site, however, was frequently unavailable or slow because of censoring by the Chinese government. After extensive debate within the…
SI74
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2006
In 1948, Jim Casey, one of United Parcel Service’s founders, established the Annie E. Casey Foundation with his siblings. The foundation’s mission was “to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States” and to…
