Christopher Armstrong , Alan Jagolinzer
2005
International Accounting Standard (IAS) 39, Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement has attracted considerable controversy throughout its development. Major European financial institutions and political agencies have lobbied heavily against the…
Joel Peterson, Joshua Spitzer
2005
In this vignette, protagonist Tom Dixon’s business has the opportunity to acquire another similar business. Dixon’s board has advised him to seek acquisition targets, but his two VPs do not want him to pursue the acquisition of a potentially appealing…
Hau Lee, Barchi Peleg, Seungjin Whang
2005
The Toyota demand chain is efficient, flexible, customer oriented and product specific. The case studies how Toyota uses its advanced distribution channels, inventory management, planning methodologies and production capabilities to create and manage its…
Hau Lee, Barchi Peleg, Seungjin Whang
2005
The Toyota Motor Co. Ltd, in addition to its world class supply and demand chain management practices, excels in managing its service chain. The service chain, which the company views as key to its long term success, is responsible for providing products…
Mike Harkey, Joel Peterson
2005
This case offers a fictional representation of Scott Bekemeyer’s second day as CEO at Valley Fire Protection, headquartered in Reno, Nevada. His first day was captured in Valley Fire Protection, Stanford Case #E-137. In that case, Scott took over the…
H. Grousbeck, Joshua Spitzer
2005
“Wild Planet,” E-193, presents the entrepreneurial history of Danny Grossman and the toy company he founded, Wild Planet. The company abides by a prominent mission statement: “Wild Planet makes innovative products that appeal to both parents and kids….
David Hoyt, Hau Lee
2005
In early 2005, the market for cement in Mexico was changing. The market, particularly in northern Mexico, had traditionally consisted primarily of sales of bagged cement, which was common in developing economies. There appeared to be a shift to bulk…
Margaret Eaton, Mark Hong, Tara Thiagarajan
2005
Genzyme Tissue Repair (GTR) had just received favorable Phase I clinical trial results, an important first step in gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for it’s NeuroCell-PD. The ground-breaking technology behind NeuroCell-PD…
John Glynn Jr., Joshua Spitzer, Peter Ziebelman
2005
The case study “Handspring and Palm, Inc.: A Corporate Drama in Five Acts” follows Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and, later, Ed Colligan from the founding of Palm, Inc., through the founding of Handspring, to the point that Handspring and Palm began…
H. Grousbeck, Mike Harkey
2005
This case presents two fictional vignettes dealing with issues in labor law. McQueeney’s Publishing, the fictional company presented in the case, is a small independent publishing concern with printing and publishing operations in the San Francisco Bay…
Margaret Eaton, Rebecca Farkas, Daniel Greenwald
2005
Two companies, Myriad Genetics and OncorMed, were competing to develop a genetic test for breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility. Although the two companies had offered genetic testing only to women who participated in their research studies, in 1995…
H. Grousbeck, Mike Harkey
2005
A search fund is a pool of capital raised to financially support the efforts of an entrepreneur, or a team of entrepreneurs, to locate a privately held company for acquisition. This study, as well as its predecessors in 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2003…
Charles Holloway, Joshua Spitzer
2005
“TerraMai: Reclaimed Woods from Around the World” follows the business ventures of former river guides Erika Carpenter and Richard McFarland in the early days of the reclaimed wood industry. Reclaimed wood suppliers mill wood from deconstructed…
Margaret Eaton, Betty Pang, Jennifer Wilds
2005
The VaxGen, Inc. case details the efforts of VaxGen and its president, Don Francis, to obtain approval to conduct phase III clinical trials in Thailand for AIDSVAX, an experimental vaccine designed to protect against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)…
Naveen Chopra, Margaret Eaton, Jason Ehrlich
2005
In May 1999, the “Moon Shot” team gathered to review the results of a $54.4 million direct-to-consumer (DTC) ad campaign. Moon Shot was a cross-functional team at Zeneca Inc., a pharmaceutical, agrochemical and specialty products company. The ad…
H. Grousbeck, Nick Mansour
2004
It was January 19, 1995. Tom Bird was uncomfortable with his last discussion with Ken Saxon, his partner. Over the last nine months, they had been thinking about the possibility of leaving their company, First American Records Management (FARM), and…
V. Viard, Jessica Patrick
2004
In 2003 Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, must formulate a strategy for responding to entry by Blockbuster, the world’s largest “brick-and-mortar” video rental chain, into online distribution and expansion by its closest competitor…
David Caldwell, Davina Drabkin, Charles O'Reilly III, Robert Pearl
2004
Richard Townsend has recently been elected CEO of Liberty Medical Foundation (LMF), a non-profit HMO. Due in part to a rapidly changing competitive environment, LMF has faced serious financial problems over the past two years. Confounding the problem…
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee, II
2004
The executive VP of administration of a diversified provider of financial services and products was alarmed over escalating costs for personnel within the data processing department. This department had performed well and had grown tremendously over its…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
2004
The director of personnel for a small technical research and development facility calls you in as a consultant. Five years earlier he had forced an affirmative action hire of a woman biophysicist who had not worked out well and was resented by the rest of…
Lyn Denend, R. McKern
2004
China is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world, with organized society existing for more than 10,000 years. While the country had a complex and dynamic past, the scope and pace of change in China since the reform era of the 1980s was…
James Baron, Fred Swaniker
2004
In December 2003, Edna Swaniker, managing director of Mount Pleasant School in Botswana, faced a number of challenges. The school, which had been founded to offer a high-quality education to children of middle-income families, had been one of the top two…
Seungjin Whang, Barchi Peleg
2004
In 2004, Nokia was a leader in the telecommunications industry. Since 1995, Nokia Mobile Phones (NMP) had made major investments in supply chain management. In an effort to manage the transition from analog to digital technology and keep pace with…
Joel Peterson, Alex Tauber
2004
Largest minority owned IT consulting firm in the Mid-West. Case describes the growth of the firm and focuses on the issues of: how the protagonist should handle the issue of succession; how he should handle a difficult partnership separation with his…