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.
In January 2016, Mr. Tahir Raza Mian, Assistant Sales and Marketing Manager at the Avari Hotel Lahore (until 1994 known and operated as the Avari Lahore Ramada Renaissance Hotel), was concerned about the average room rate at the hotel. For the first time…
The pivotal role played by Intel in the development of the semiconductor industry, from the company’s founding in 1968 and focus on semiconductor memory products (SRAM and DRAM), through various innovations in microprocessor technology, and leading to the…
Harry's Shaving
The case discusses the growth of a startup, Harry’s Shaving, and some of the cultural issues the firm has encountered since inception. The company acquired a factory in Germany to manufacture razor blades for its online business. The case addresses two…
EMco and SolarT (B)
The EMco and SolarT case is presented in a series of four short vignettes involved two women, Carrie and Marguerite, who have a twenty-year friendship. Carrie, a venture capitalist, sits on the board of an energy management company called EMco. When…
EMco and SolarT (C)
The EMco and SolarT case is presented in a series of four short vignettes involved two women, Carrie and Marguerite, who have a twenty-year friendship. Carrie, a venture capitalist, sits on the board of an energy management company called EMco. When…
EMco and SolarT (A)
The EMco and SolarT case is presented in a series of four short vignettes involved two women, Carrie and Marguerite, who have a twenty-year friendship. Carrie, a venture capitalist, sits on the board of an energy management company called EMco. When…
EMco and SolarT
The EMco and SolarT case is presented in a series of four short vignettes involved two women, Carrie and Marguerite, who have a twenty-year friendship. Carrie, a venture capitalist, sits on the board of an energy management company called EMco. When…
Tenet Healthcare
This case focuses on major strategic challenges faced by Tenet Healthcare (Tenet), a U.S.-based health care provider, in 2014. It discusses major changes to the health care provider industry over the previous decade―customer, demographic, reimbursement…
In September 2015, Executive Director Cynthia Rider and Artistic Director Bill Rauch submitted the 2015-2025 OSF Long Range Plan to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival board. With the festival leadership finally in place and stable, they collectively created…
By 2014, Palantir Technologies, a fast growing Silicon Valley company with global impact at the heart of its mission, had spent several years donating the same software to nonprofits that it sold to commercial customers to help solve some of the world’s…
L. A. Heir
Stephanie Collett sighed as she tried to focus on her laptop. It was late at night shortly before Christmas 2012, and she had spent hours trying to make the math work on a struggling apartment complex. Although she had no training or background in real…
CareMessage
The CareMessage case describes the evolution of the nonprofit organization from its founding in 2012 through the end of 2014. CareMessage was launched by Vineet Singal, a young biological sciences graduate from Stanford University. Having dealt with his…
The Off Grid Electric case focuses on the creation, growth, and financing of the company from 2011 through the middle of 2014. The three cofounders saw an opportunity to provide solar electricity to much of Africa through their solar-as-a-service…
In November 2012, the Greek economy was on the precipice of collapse. Antonis Samaras, Greece’s newly elected Prime Minister, faced a difficult decision regarding the harsh terms of austerity proposed by the European Commission, European Central Bank, and…
Year Up
The Year Up case deals with two ubiquitous issues that arise when managing a growing enterprise: an organization will outgrow systems; and it will outgrow employees. Year Up, led by CEO Gerald Chertavian, provided education, training, and job…
AlphaCredit
The AlphaCredit case features Augusto Álvarez and José Luis Orozco, founders and co-CEOs of AlphaCredit, a rapidly growing financial services company in Mexico City. Using two primary vignettes, the case highlights three challenges faced by Álvarez and…
SeaMicro
Launched in 2007, SeaMicro developed one of the most innovative server products to hit the market in over a decade. The SM10000 consumed one-quarter the power and space of conventional server products, thereby addressing a significant and growing pain…
The most important job of a manager is to hire great people―yet in the United States, one-third of all outside hires do not meet expectations. A company’s success rate in hiring new employees can increase significantly by following best practices crafted…
Zintro, Stuart Lewtan’s second start-up, just completed a round of financing that was intended to fund a rebuild of the site’s user interface and provide Lewtan the cash needed to hire a first-rate senior management team. But the hiring process had not…
Revenue Works
Revenue Works tells the story of Mike Sutherland and how he grew the search fund company he acquired from $5 million to over $150 million in revenue. After growing the company with debt and returning dividends to investors through leveraged…
Madison Reed
This case addresses some of the leadership challenges faced by Amy Errett, the CEO of a two-year-old startup, Madison Reed. Madison Reed is an online hair care company delivering non-toxic hair color to thousands of women throughout the United States. …
Torani
The Torani case tells the story of a 90-year-old company founded in San Francisco by two Italian-Americans, Rinaldo and Ezilda Torre. In 1925, the Torres visited family in Luca, Italy, and brought back with them recipes for homemade flavored syrups which…
This case explores the Branch Metrics’ cofounders’ early days as a team and their pursuit of a viable idea for their startup. The three original cofounders, who met in business school, transformed their business concept entirely several times before…