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.
The Knight Management Center
NIKE WE: Design Meets Social Good
Kiva.org and the Power of a Story
Emphasys Medical: Navigating Complex Clinical and Regulatory Challenges on the Path to Market
For roughly a decade, the team at Emphasys Medical had been working to design, develop, and then gain regulatory approval in the U.S. to market an innovative new device therapy to treat emphysema. However, after investing millions of dollars to test the…
Google Out of China
Three years later, in December 2009…
User-Generated Content Systems at Intuit (A)
User-Generated Content Systems at Intuit (B)
Note on IPO Share Allocation
An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of stock or shares by a company to the public. IPOs are often issued by smaller, younger companies seeking capital to expand, although they can also be done by large privately owned companies looking to…
Optigen
The case highlights the evolution of a wide-area-network (WAN) optimization company from its founding day to its potential IPO. It explores the various challenges faced by management along the way, both in terms of determining what characteristics are…
Sierra Capital Partners
kaChing
Chemrad Corporation: President and CEO Search
Taobao vs. Ebay China
By 2008, Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba.com Inc., was in a position to consider how to fortify Taobao’s dominant position in China’s online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. Ma and his company had come a long way since May 2003, when they first launched the…
JetBlue Airways, A New Beginning
JetBlue Airways grew rapidly from its founding in 2000, focusing on providing low-cost service to previously underserved cities, while giving passengers a high-quality experience, (“bringing humanity back to air travel”). An ice storm at JFK airport on…
Kevin Donnelly at New Wave Ventures
Kevin Donnelly, a junior partner at up and coming venture firm New Wave Ventures, has invested in NOW!, a start-up consumer internet company. Kevin and Mark Rosen, NOW!’s founder, agree to hire a new CEO, Todd Brown, to lead and develop a compelling…
Vocera Communications (B)
Vocera Communications (B) is a company update as of 2007, after a new CEO/Chairman was hired. The company had evolved over the years into a healthcare technology company, and several other significant changes had taken place, specifically regarding…
Manutech Corporation: President and Chief Operating Officer Search
Baker Hughes, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
In 2002, Baker Hughes was accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This case describes the actions taken by the company in response to those accusations. These include hiring a third-party law firm to undertake an independent…
Sharks in the Water, Battling an Activist Investor for Corporate Control (B)
This case is a follow up to CG-20A, and explains the actions taken by Tarco in response to threat from activist investor Barracuda. The case explains how the company relied on an analysis of its shareholder base and predictive proxy voting to inform its…
Westpac, Offshore Bank Accounts in the Cook Islands (A) and (B)
This case presents two vignettes from the perspective of Laura White, a newly-promoted manager of the Cook Islands operations for a large Australian bank. In Vignette A, White learns of the existence of an Offshore Banking Unit (OBU) – the source of…
Search Funds - 2009: Selected Observations
Equity on Demand, the Netflix Approach to Compensation
Netflix was among a small group of Silicon Valley companies to emerge from the technology bubble of the late 1990s a clear winner in terms of growth, market share, and profitability. That Netflix was able not only to prevail over this competition but also…
The Business Environment of Nigeria
Valley Systems (B)
In Part A, Valley Systems, a computer hardware company which manufactures high performance internetworking systems, was six months post-IPO and struggling to make their quarterly earnings. Matt Tucker, the company’s CEO, was very concerned about the…