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.
World Innovation Lab – WiL: Transforming Japanese Corporations
Mind the Gap: Strategy and Execution of Supply Chain Negotiations
The case chronicles the challenges of a consulting team charged with developing and executing a negotiation strategy designed to help a large retailer cut costs by renegotiating their contract with their largest supplier.
The disguised case begins by…
Graham Weaver
This case tells the story of Graham Weaver as he forms and grows Alpine ventures, a private equity firm he started while still a student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Over the course of twenty years, Weaver built a private equity firm…
NEC Corporation in 2020: Innovating for the Future
In 2020, NEC focused on providing advanced IT, network, and data solutions, including cloud computing, AI and machine learning, Internet-of-Things platforms, and 5G networks as well as communication equipment installations. An award-winning company, NEC…
Walmart: Driving Innovation at Scale
In 2014, Walmart was at an inflection point. The world’s largest company wasn’t sure how to evolve and innovate to win over the next 30 years. In a leadership change that year, Doug McMillon rose to become Walmart’s new CEO. Soon after, he hired Lori…
The Intel Incubation Program:Disruption Inside
Lucinda Stewart: Attracting Allies and Mentors
Google’s Global Business Organization: Managing Innovation at Scale
Erste Group: Transformation of a Banking House – Change, Leadership, Space
Erste Group (“Erste”), one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Eastern Europe, faced a rapidly changing business environment in 2019: fintech startups were unbundling retail banking services as consumers’ expectations for service in…
AGC Inc. in 2019: “Your Dreams, Our Challenge”
Jason Calacanis: A Case Study in Creating Resources
Jason Calacanis described himself as a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcaster – and someone who had come a long way from the time he had to talk his way into Fordham University. Later, when finances were tight, he talked the dean into getting…
Sadiq Gillani’s Airline Career Takes Off: Strategy in Action
As a student at the Harvard Business School, Sadiq Gillani decided to focus his career on the airline industry. This case study explores Gillani’s strategic decisions to take positions with aviation consulting companies, start-up airlines, and budget…
Tristan Walker: The Extroverted Introvert
Tristan Walker was a 32-year-old entrepreneur. A visionary thinker and GSB graduate, Walker had accomplished much in his short career, and had worked briefly at Twitter, Foursquare, and Andreessen Horowitz before founding his own company, Walker & Company…
House of Tara: Building an African Beauty Company
In early 2014, Tara Fela-Durotoye, the founder and CEO of House of Tara, was contemplating one of her greatest achievements to date. Her company had been named by L’Oréal as a strategic distributor for Nigeria of leading international cosmetics brand…
Insight to Outcome: A Note on Strategy Development and Implementation
Most business activities can be understood as progressions from insight to outcome – getting from the original spark of an idea to the actual realization of financial and strategic results. And yet, leaders and companies fail to master this progression…
SM Entertainment
On the evening of June 10, 2011, the first European tour of Korean idol groups was held in Paris. With European fans demanding tickets and organizing a flash mob rally in front of the Louvre Museum, SM Entertainment, the producers, immediately set up an…
Amir Dan Rubin: Success from the Beginning
Blue Skies: Connecting African Farmers to Global Markets
VisionSpring
VisionSpring follows social entrepreneur Jordan Kassalow from his early career in public health through the founding of VisionSpring, an organization that sells eyeglasses to the rural poor in developing countries. The case describes how Kassalow becomes…