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General Motors, a legacy automaker with a revered history of engineering talent and research innovation, faced a number of complex strategic decisions in the mid-2020s. This case examines how GM’s research and development strategy addressed seismic…
Learning objectives include understanding how to manage operational and technological risk mitigation processes under a rapidly changing technology landscape, building safe and scalable systems to adopt new technology for product releases and internal…
This case examines a leveraged buyout gone sour, and a how a private equity firm can use the tools of bankruptcy to rescue a portfolio investment. It also focuses on how parties use complex bankruptcy financing (known as debtor-in-possession, or DIP…
This case study walks technology company Microsoft’s recent history implementing governance principles and operational processes to deal with the new and accelerating risks related to artificial intelligence (AI). Moving from initial machine learning to…
The case follows Vikram Gandhi, founder of The Blended Finance Company (TBFC), a Mumbai-based social enterprise that designs and arranges blended finance structures to mobilize private capital toward social and environmental outcomes in India. TBFC has…
This case traces the entrepreneurial journey of Arthur Bretschneider, co-founder and CEO of Seniorly, a technology platform built to modernize how families searched for senior living communities. Bretschneider grew up around the purpose-built senior…
Dr. Christopher Longhurst, chief clinical and innovation officer at UC San Diego Health, has advanced to the final round in the search to become chief executive officer of Seattle Children’s Hospital, one of the nation’s premier pediatric health systems…
This case traces the entrepreneurial journey of Kenneth Lin, founder and CEO of Credit Karma, from his upbringing in an immigrant household in Las Vegas through the company’s eventual acquisition by Intuit. Raised by parents whose restaurant and side…
In early 2026, Manoj Kumar was preparing for a strategic review of Social Alpha, the not-for-profit he had founded a decade earlier to support science- and technology-based ventures addressing problems that conventional markets had largely ignored. Based…
The 2026 Search Fund Study reports on the financial returns and key characteristics of search funds formed in the United States and Canada since 1984. This report updates the previous 2024 study with data through December 31, 2025. The report also…
In 1972, Fazle Hasan Abed left a senior role at Shell to help rebuild a flood-ravaged village in newly independent Bangladesh. He did not arrive with a plan. He arrived with a question: why do good solutions so often fail to reach the people who need them…
In spring 2026, Google’s Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler led the Global Business Organization (GBO), the commercial engine behind more than 70 percent of Alphabet’s revenue, through what he viewed as the industry’s third great inflection point…
This companion case to SM-413(A) examines how Snowflake’s engineering and product organizations reinvented themselves to deliver the AI Data Cloud — not just what was built, but how the organization, processes, culture, and talent strategy were…
In February 2024, Sridhar Ramaswamy assumed the CEO role at Snowflake, inheriting a company that had achieved extraordinary success under Frank Slootman as a cloud data warehouse but faced a question of strategic importance: could it reinvent itself as an…
For well over a decade, the team at early-stage venture capital firm Third Sphere had approached climate-focused investing by imagining what a successful outcome might look like—how technologies might reshape energy systems, transportation networks, or…
By April 2001, Asurion had reached $80 million in revenue and $25 million in EBITDA. TA Associates invested at a $225 million valuation. Kevin Taweel and Jim Ellis had hired Bret Comolli, a West Point graduate and former CEO, to lead operations. The…
Kevin Taweel, from Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Jim Ellis, from rural Florida, met as case writers for Irv Grousbeck at Stanford GSB. Both wanted to own a business. In July 1995, they acquired Road Rescue, an $8.5 million roadside-assistance company…
