This listing contains abstracts and ordering information for case studies written and published by faculty at Stanford GSB.
Publicly available cases in this collection are distributed by Harvard Business Publishing and The Case Centre.
Stanford case studies with diverse protagonists, along with case studies that build “equity fluency” by focusing on DEI-related issues and opportunities are listed in the Case Compendium developed by the Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership at the Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Oak Street Health
This case describes the founding and evolution of Oak Street Health, a primary care provider operating in the “value-based” health care space, focused on Medicare patients in the United States. This case introduces students to value-based health care in…
Tesla: Business & Operating Model Evolution (Abridged)
Intel in 2022 and Beyond: Securing its Indispensable Global Role in Semiconductors
HearstLab: Igniting Innovation and Empowering Women (B)
Eve Burton founded HearstLab in 2015 to support female entrepreneurs and cultivate a new entrepreneurial mindset within Hearst Corporation. Since the Lab’s inception in 2015, the Lab team had reviewed over 6,000 companies and made investments in 48 of…
Zuora in 2022: Accelerating Growth
On April 12, 2018, Zuora listed on NYSE under the ticker symbol ZUO, becoming a publicly traded company at a valuation of $1.4 billion. The software company had achieved fast growth in the rapidly expanding subscription economy—and was poised to…
Leading Global Innovation at EY - Jeff Wong
Homecoming Capital: Developing an Impact Strategy
In April 2019, just two months shy of his graduation from Stanford Graduate School of Business (“Stanford”), Cody Evans was looking forward to converting his professional and academic experiences to real-world impact. Having worked at both the largest…
Vitana: Choosing Partners
Hyundai Motor Group: Fast Follower to Game Changer
In 2022, Hyundai Motor Group had become the world’s third-largest automaker by sales volume. Under Executive Chair Euisun Chung’s leadership, HMG was shaping its vision as a “game changer” in the global automotive industry. The company no longer viewed…
Eleva Educação: Transforming K-12 Education in Brazil
Industry Note on Personal Computers, Managed Print Services in the Distributed Workplace and 3D Printing in 2021
On November 2, 2021, Enrique Lores, CEO of HP, Inc., ended the first online huddle of the week with his executive leadership team. The day was an historic one for the Palo Alto-based global company: six years earlier, HP Inc. came into being after the…
HP, Inc. Beyond 2021: Pursuing Strategic Renewal for Growth
On November 2, 2021, Enrique Lores, CEO of HP, Inc., ended the first online huddle of the week with his executive leadership team. The day was an historic one for the Palo Alto-based global company: six years earlier, HP Inc. came into being after the…
MarketForce: Building an Operating System for Merchants in Africa
Tesh Mbaabu started MarketForce to help bring technology to the thousands of Kenyan merchants who ran corner shops that were often a centerpiece of their communities. MarketForce began as an inventory ordering platform for merchants, but has quickly…
Total Venture Design: Creating and Delivering Value
Illumen Capital: Bias Reduction to Unlock Impact and Returns
Building on Nobel Prize-winning research, nearly a decade of experience investing in impact funds, and a lifetime of social and economic justice advocacy, Daryn Dodson’s Illumen Capital, an impact investment fund-of-funds, was at a critical juncture…
Facebook and Political Speech
By 2022, Meta was the world’s largest social media company, with around 3 billion users sharing 140 billion messages and a billion stories a day. Over 200 million businesses used Meta apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meta’s primary source of…
Cinnamon: New Product Introduction
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI): Launching a Cleantech Debt Fund
After completing a successful two-year pilot, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) was ready to launch its inaugural Debt Fund. The goal was to capitalize companies solving the greatest challenges related to climate change across three priority…
Nuveen and the Seychelles Blue Bond: Analyzing a Public Fixed Income Impact Investment
In 2016, Stephen M. Liberatore, CFA, lead portfolio manager for and head of Nuveen’s impact fixed income strategies, received a phone call from the World Bank. The call was not unusual; in fact, Nuveen had collaborated with the World Bank in the past as…
Forestry and Timberland: Impact Investment Analysis
ACCESS Health India and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
While India had made significant progress against diseases like polio and tetanus, the pandemic revealed marked differences in COVID-related illness and death among the country’s most vulnerable. Urban-rural and other societal divides added to long-time…
REDF Impact Investing Fund (RIIF): Alternative Risk Ratings
Nuveen: Evaluating a Private Equity Impact Investment
For five years, the private equity impact team at Nuveen led by Rekha Unnithan, CFA, had been watching Samunnati, a specialized agriculture value chain solutions provider located in Chennai, near the southeastern coast of India. Its mission was to support…
Autodesk 2022: A Future Delivered?
Autodesk’s new CEO launched three strategic initiatives that would transform the company into a global leader in software products and services for architecture, engineering, and construction. The company would be a customer-centric organization, with the…