Robert Burgelman, Cara McVie
2003
Pixim, Inc. was a start-up founded in 1999 by two electrical engineering graduate students and an electrical engineering professor. The 38-employee company made semiconductors for digital imaging devices. Its core technology, the Digital Pixel System…
Robert Burgelman, Cara McVie
2003
The August 2001 board meeting had marked a somewhat abrupt departure for Pixim, Inc. A newly hired vice president of business development had steered the company and board away from its early plans for digital still cameras and towards two new markets –…
Robert Burgelman, Cara McVie
2003
In the winter of 2001/2002, Rob Siegel, his marketing team, and the sales vice president drilled down on the first two target markets which the company had designated in August 2001: embedded and security cameras. Siegel had done high-level analysis…
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2003
Most consumers experienced the Internet at the limits of traditional dial-up modems: 56,000 bits per second (56 kbs) or slower. The reasons for the slower than expected adoption of broadband in the United States varied according to viewpoint. Some…
David Baron
2003
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provided a structure for the deregulation of the telecommunications industry from long distance to local service. In 2002 the FCC began its Triennial Review of the UNE requirement under the leadership of chairman…
David Caldwell, Charles O'Reilly III, Robert Pearl
2003
In 1999, Richard Townsend, M.D., the newly appointed Executive Director (CEO) of the Liberty Medical Foundation (LMF) was sitting in his Pittsburgh office reviewing materials for a presentation the following day to the Board of Directors. Dr. Townsend…
David Caldwell, Charles O'Reilly III, Robert Pearl
2003
In 1999, Richard Townsend, M.D., the newly appointed Executive Director (CEO) of the Liberty Medical Foundation (LMF) was sitting in his Pittsburgh office reviewing materials for a presentation the following day to the Board of Directors. Dr. Townsend…
Frederic Descamps, Michaela Draganska, Christopher Pennya
2003
In August 2002, Microsoft approached the one-year anniversary of its video game console, the Xbox. The first wave of console systems were available in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Australia, and the second wave of rollouts was targeted four Asian markets…
Robert Burgelman, Lewis Fanger, Cecilia O'Reilly
2003
As of the first half of 2003, Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest recording company, is a part of the troubled Vivendi Universal conglomerate. The company is the market leader in the recording industry, which is in the third year of a severe…
James Lattin, Mark Leslie, Erin Yurday
2003
In October 1998, VERITAS and Seagate’s Network Storage and Management Group, which both sold data storage management software, agreed to merge. In terms of employee size and revenues, it was nearly a merger of equals. Until regulatory approval for the…
George Foster, Erin Yurday
2003
WebEx Communications, founded in 1996 by Min Zhu and Subrah Iyar, was an Internet-based carrier-class communications services provider of web conferences and meetings. WebEx’s online, real-time, interactive, multimedia communications services allowed its…
Jeff Eisen, Charles Holloway, Mark Leslie
2003
Zaplet faces internal challenges following the dramatic change in the economy and the resulting market demand for their product.
William Barnett, Terry Cumes, William Durham, Roderick Morris
2003
In 1962, Abercrombie & Kent began as a safari company in Kenya. The company has grown to offer environmentally friendly travel opportunities worldwide to primarily affluent Western travelers. This case explores how Abercrombie & Kent developed its…
James Phills, Gregory Scott
2003
In early January 1993, American Repertory Theatre’s (ART) Artistic Director Robert Brustein and Managing Director Robert Orchard were concerned about ART’s financial situation. Major government funders had communicated plans to cut sharply, and possibly…
James Phills, Gregory Scott
2003
In early January 1993, American Repertory Theatre’s (ART) Artistic Director Robert Brustein and Managing Director Robert Orchard were concerned about ART’s financial situation. Major government funders had communicated plans to cut sharply, and possibly…
James Phills, E Martenson
2003
In early January 1993, American Repertory Theatre’s (ART) Artistic Director Robert Brustein and Managing Director Robert Orchard were concerned about ART’s financial situation. Major government funders had communicated plans to cut sharply, and possibly…
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
Investors in for-profit companies have clear measures of company performance in meeting their economic objectives. However, the effectiveness of investments in not-for-profit organizations is more difficult to measure, since a significant objective of…
William Barnett, William Durham
2003
In 1985, Daniel Janzen, one of the world’s foremost tropical ecologists, proposed a bold plan to preserve and restore a substantial tropical forest in Costa Rica, called the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG). The project reformed the Costa Rican…
William Barnett, William Durham, Nathaniel Fisher
2003
The Community Baboon Sanctuary, located in north-central Belize, was founded in 1985. Primatologist Robert Horwich and a few local villagers worked with local landowners to develop a voluntary sanctuary to protect and grow the local Howler Monkey…
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
This short paper introduces considerations in corporate philanthropy. It discusses possible motivations for corporate philanthropy, and the forms such philanthropy can take. It also introduces arguments for and against corporate philanthropy: is…
Victoria Chang, Sonya Grier
2003
In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, waited in his Portland, Oregon office for his executive team. He had called together the group to discuss Gardenburger’s advertising…
Victoria Chang, Sonya Grier
2003
In 1997, Lyle Hubbard, CEO of Gardenburger, a producer and marketer of veggie burgers and meat alternative products, waited in his Portland, Oregon office for his executive team. He had called together the group to discuss Gardenburger’s advertising…
David Baron, Soon Jin Lim, Deborah Liu
2003
In Africa GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) confronted the reality of the AIDS crisis every day, and its decisions impacted thousands. There were no ready answers to the crisis, but everyone—governments, non-governmental organizations, the media, shareholders, and…
Jeremy Bahr, William Meehan III, Brian Tayan
2003
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has approved a $110 million Nursing Initiative to improve patient care in hospitals by addressing problems of nursing shortages and lack of nursing training in the San Francisco Bay Area. The case addresses issues of how…