E734
David Dodson, Scott Mitchel
2020
The Rowell & Mackenzie case follows husband-and-wife executives Sarah Rowell and Scott Mackenzie as they weigh the decision whether or not to embark on a search fund. The case addresses the potential benefits and drawbacks of the search fund experience…
SM338
William Barnett, Robert Siegel, Laila AlJasem
2020
Boubyan Bank in 2009 was Kuwait’s smallest bank, with 10 branches located in commercial areas—and an increasing number of non-performing loans as the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis continued. The case study tracks what happened following…
E683
Peter Kelly, Jeffrey Conn
2020
Case outlines the story of founder and CEO Gregg Renfrew and her safe and environmentally responsible beauty company Beautycounter. Case also walks readers through two separate difficult management scenarios experienced by Renfrew. The first focuses on…
E738
H. Irving Grousbeck, David Dodson, Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case follows the story of Jay Davis and Jason Pananos, classmates from Harvard Business School who started a search fund, Nashton Partners. The case covers their decision to launch a search fund, their investment objectives and goals, and then the…
E730
David Dodson, Mitchel Scott
2020
The Unified Dental Care case follows search fund leaders Jason Jackson and Olaide Lawal as they evaluate whether or not to acquire Unified Dental Care, a mid-sized dental practice in Detroit. The case addresses managing audits, accounting issues, and…
E727E
Mark Leslie, Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case introduces students to Sandy Kurtzig, the founder and CEO of the ASK software company, and the first woman to take a Silicon Valley tech company public. It gives a brief background of the protagonist and then presents students with 4 different…
E727B
Mark Leslie, Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case introduces students to Sandy Kurtzig, the founder and CEO of the ASK software company, and the first woman to take a Silicon Valley tech company public. It gives a brief background of the protagonist and then presents students with 4 different…
E721
Robert Siegel, Mitchel Scott
2020
The Klöckner case follows CEO Gisbert Rühl and his team as they prepare for the operational consequences of digital transformation at the century-old German steel distributor. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Klöckner team must rethink their sales…
E727A
Mark Leslie, Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case introduces students to Sandy Kurtzig, the founder and CEO of the ASK software company, and the first woman to take a Silicon Valley tech company public. It gives a brief background of the protagonist and then presents students with 4 different…
E727D
Mark Leslie, Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case introduces students to Sandy Kurtzig, the founder and CEO of the ASK software company, and the first woman to take a Silicon Valley tech company public. It gives a brief background of the protagonist and then presents students with 4 different…
E727C
Mark Leslie, Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case introduces students to Sandy Kurtzig, the founder and CEO of the ASK software company, and the first woman to take a Silicon Valley tech company public. It gives a brief background of the protagonist and then presents students with 4 different…
E728
Peter Ziebelman , Erika Feldhausen
2020
This case introduces students to the large Brazilian mobile conglomerate, Movile, and its mobile food delivery subsidiary, iFood. It focuses on the experiences of these companies learning business lessons from Silicon Valley and China. In particular, the…
E731
Irving H Grousbeck
2020
The Bomi Mexico case recounts the difficulties faced by Mario Sicilia, a recent CEO of Bomi Mexico, shortly after his acquisition of the company through a search fund. The case specifically highlights a situation where two key employees raise concerns…
E713
George Foster, Sheila Melvin
2020
THRIVE’s mission was to accelerate, invest in, and work with entrepreneurs, investors, and Fortune 500 corporations to advance the future of food and agriculture through innovation. Comprised of top agriculture, food and technology corporations…
E705
George Foster, Sheila Melvin
2020
Privateer illustrates the challenges of a 2011 new venture company in the cannabis market when legalization was on the legislative agenda of several U.S. States. Initial plan was a venture fund to take equity positions in startups. Due to problems in…
E726
Peter Kelly, Sara Heston
2020
The 2020 Search Fund Study reports on the financial returns and key qualities of search funds formed in the United States and Canada since 1984. This report updates the previous 2018 study with data through December 31, 2019.
E729
H. Irving Grousbeck, David Dodson, Jim Ellis, Erika Feldhausen
2020
In May 2017, Tyler Coats signed a deal to become chief executive officer (CEO) of California Medical Transport (CMT), a California-based ambulance services company. Coats took the reins from husband-and-wife team Terry and Susan Smith after closing a…
SM334
Kevin Schulman, Natalie Yu
2020
Devoted Health aimed to build the next-generation Medicare Advantage health insurance plan, taking advantage of tech solutions to ensure cost containment for the company’s bottom line— and a high-quality health care plan that treated members like family…
E724
H. Irving Grousbeck, David Dodson, Erika Feldhausen
2020
The Eyewitness Surveillance II case tells the story of Rush Arnold and RT McCloy, friends who met while studying at Wharton, who raise a search fund under the name Channelstone Partners. In the fall of 2010, after having spent two-thirds of their search…
OIT120
Cindie Wu Gaspar, Kevin Schulman, David Scheinker
2020
Health care management requires careful planning for efficient operations, in an environment where technology, best practices, and patient demands continue to change rapidly. This case study presents an operations management decision at a large academic…
OIT121
Stefanos Zenios, Meredith Colton-Hazy
2020
This case describes how Microsoft became a leader in cloud products from 2014 to 2019. It concisely defines “the cloud” and dives into how the leadership of Satya Nadella, the development of Azure, and the shifts within the sales organization transformed…
P101
Saumitra Jha, Vyoma Jha
2020
This case presents the challenges facing BMW and Toyota in choosing how to address the divergence between the Trump administration and the State of California’s standards over U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The case provides…
M383
Jennifer Aaker, Blake Kavanaugh
2020
In the process of searching for a preschool for his son, Sepandar “Sep” Kamvar realized the ideal school he was envisioning did not yet exist. He decided to start a school that would serve to connect those involved in the school both to themselves and…
M379
Russell Siegelman, Mitchel Scott, Margot Sutherland
2020
The Opendoor case follows head of market operations Megan Meyer as her team develops a strategy to enter Los Angeles, a substantial departure from the existing real estate markets the company had worked in through 2018. Particular issues explored include…
