Leandro Cuccioli, Steve de Bonvoisin, Raquel Gonzalez-Dalmau, Gustavo Lopes, R. McKern
2007
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, American Colonial Heritage, Inc. (ACH) was a top-ten U.S. furniture manufacturer focused on the upper end of the indoor home furniture market. The head of the International Division had just asked Alexandra Jones to…
Leandro Cuccioli, Steve de Bonvoisin, Raquel Gonzalez-Dalmau Lopes Gustavo, McKern R.
2007
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, American Colonial Heritage, Inc. (ACH) was a top-ten U.S. furniture manufacturer focused on the upper end of the indoor home furniture market. Founded in 1926, ACH had $517 million in revenue in FY2005. By January…
David Hoyt, Hayagreeva Rao
2007
In mid-2007, Infosys was an extremely successful business. Headquartered in India, it had played an important role in transforming global business. Revenues were growing rapidly, and the company was highly profitable. The company’s revenue growth was…
Victoria Chang, William Guttentag, Roderick Kramer
2007
New York-born Denise Di Novi was a rare breed in Hollywood—She had become a high-powered and highly successful movie producer within a small elite “boy’s club” coterie while raising two sons and having a fulfilling family life. Despite the fact that 50…
R. Ellis, Sean Harrington
2007
Bob Lazier was the CEO of his family’s business that manufactured high quality components used primarily in laundry machines. Despite LI’s strong overall financial standing, Lazier was worried about a plateau in sales over the past six months and…
Katherine Bose, H. Grousbeck
2007
After several quarters of missed numbers, the protagonist, a director on the board of The Private Bank, calls into question the competence of the founder, Chairman, CEO and President of the Bank. Intra-board conflict ensues as does conflict about how to…
Patrick Arippol, Peter Wendell
2007
The Daksh Business Plan Case (A) enables the study of early business formation and venture capital funding within an international setting. This case relates to the company’s first round of funding in December 15, 1999. Sanjeev Aggarwal co-founded Daksh…
Patrick Arippol, Peter Wendell
2007
The Daksh Business Plan Case (A) enables the study of early business formation and venture capital funding within an international setting. This case relates to the company’s first round of funding in December 15, 1999. Sanjeev Aggarwal co-founded Daksh…
Patrick Arippol, H. Grousbeck
2007
This case describes a series of 3 vignettes confronted by a fast-growing extended warranty services company, Extended Service Plans of America (ESPA). Doug Tudor had become the company’s president after completing its acquisition for Asurion Corporation…
Bethany Coates, Andrew Rachleff
2007
Chris Rust strained to reach a small finger-hold on his rock-climbing route up El Capitan, a 3,000-ft vertical cliff in Yosemite National Park. Rust, the founder of Mahi Networks (Mahi), a start-up telecom equipment manufacturer, had decided to take the…
James Lattin
2007
In November 1997, Richard D. Fairbank, Chairman and CEO of Capital One Financial Corporation, was reflecting on the success of his company since its initial public offering (IPO) in 1994. The success had come primarily from one business: credit cards…
Robert Burgelman, Steve Chung
2007
The case profiles the US market entry strategy decision for CDNetworks, a KOSDAQ-listed Korean technology company. CD Networks provides its customers with a content delivery network (CDN) to facilitate efficient delivery of rich media files over the…
Antonio Davila, George Foster, Jaume Llopis
2007
In 2006, Futbol Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) was one of the world’s premier soccer teams. Founded in 1899, the club had experienced ups and downs over its history. Following some great years in the mid-1990s, the club had suffered a decline both…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2007
Heidi Roizen, a well known technology entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, talks about social networking and how she grows and maintains her very large network. Roizen discusses why she likes networking and how she uses tools such as e-mail…
Evan Berrett, Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
Creating Centrino required Intel to make major changes to its strategy and organization. The development of Centrino was part of Intel’s “right hand turn” toward increased performance measures, including improvements coming from increased power…
Robert Burgelman, Margaret LeBrecque
2007
The case discusses the challenges Intel Corporation faced when it entered the cellular and handheld communications devices platforms businesses.
Robert Burgelman, Brooke Blumenstein
2007
This case study examines the plans for a new knowledge management system at Katzenbach Partners LLC, a 150-employee management consultancy, from the perspective of the firm’s managing partner. The case covers both system functionality as well as plans for…
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
The case describes the actions taken by HP’s CEO Mark Hurd in his first two years leading the company.
Robert Burgelman, Lyn Denend
2007
In the summer of 2006, Nike announced a major corporate reorganization that would shift the company’s focus to a category-driven approach. The six major business categories were running, men’s training, basketball, soccer, women’s fitness, and sportswear…
George Foster, David Hoyt
2007
In 2004, energy drink company Red Bull considered purchasing the Jaguar Formula One (F1) racing team from Ford Motor Company. F1 was the pinnacle of international auto racing, and Red Bull had previously sponsored F1 teams and drivers. At the time, Red…
George Foster, David Hoyt
2007
In 2006, Red Bull considered purchasing the New York MetroStars of Major League Soccer (MLS). Red Bull already owned one soccer team, ‘Red Bull Salzburg’ located in the company’s headquarters city. The case describes professional soccer in the United…
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
This case describes the strategies and interaction of the Kinetics Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. In particular, it shows how these two organizations, although quite different from each other, collaborate toward a common mission of…
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Victoria Chang
2007
In 1999, the Germany-based Bertelsmann Foundation and the U.S.-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation jointly established the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network (“TCFN”). TCFN was a learning organization comprised of community foundations and…
James Phills, Brian Tayan
2007
In 2006, AARP was one of the largest, most well known nonprofit organizations in the United States. Its membership base exceeded 38 million individuals, by far the largest nonprofit membership base in the country. In recent years, it had influenced major…