David Brady, Karen Jacobson
2002
In 1992, the Reichs started an innovative public school in a low-income area of New York City to provide quality education to urban children that the public school system was not serving properly. They had founded the Beginning with Children Foundation…
Peter Laub, James Phills
2002
A non-profit organization founded in 1990, Innermotion was a dance company that presented performances based on themes related to incest and childhood sexual abuse as well as therapeutic workshops for survivors of such abuse. The organization consisted of…
William Barnett, Brady Beaubien, William Durham
2002
The Galapagos Islands are referred to as the birthplace of modern day ecotourism. Alongside fishing, the business of providing “eco-tours” has become the principle means of income for the approximately 16,000 inhabitants spread among the five inhabited…
Jeffrey Chambers, Janet Feldstein, Brian Trelstad
2002
The case reviews the company’s history, starting in the late 1980s when Brettler formed the company with his own savings in 1987. It details the early stages of the company, its initial strategy, and its on-going successes. CarToys was a consistently…
Charles O'Reilly III
2002
How does a high technology firm successfully grow and compete in a market where software may be obsolete in 12 months? Cisco Systems, with annual revenues of more then $8 billion and a market capitalization larger than General Motors, is a leader in the…
R. McKern
2002
Dozier Industries was a U.S. manufacturer of electronic security systems. In 1994, it received a large order from the United Kingdom, which stipulated payment in Pounds. The company received a deposit, with the balance expected to be paid in 90 days. The…
John McMillan
2002
Gazprom, the Russian natural-gas production and distribution firm which by some measures is the largest energy company in the world, has been very cheaply valued ever since its privatization. Reasons for this include the general uncertainty prevailing in…
George Foster, Andrea Higuera
2002
This case provides an overview of the founding and development of the biotechnology firm, GenPharm International, Inc., with a particular focus on its globalization strategy. GenPharm was founded in 1989 and quickly became a pioneer in the field of…
Andrea Higuera, Charles Holloway
2002
After opening the first Gordon Biersch brewery restaurant in July 1988 in Palo Alto, California, Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch successfully built Gordon Biersch into a $20 million company with restaurants in five locations and a small retail beer business…
Steven Brandt
2002
HBI is a company with lackluster performance and a variety of issues requiring management attention.
Steven Brandt
2002
HBI is a company with lackluster performance and a variety of issues requiring management attention.
Seungjin Whang
2002
In 1992, Japan’s Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) spun off its wireless phone service, forming NTT DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo introduced “I-Mode,” a wireless data service in November 1998. At the time of introduction, this was a new, untested market….
Victoria Chang, George Parker
2002
Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Internet Capital Group (ICG), a Business-to-Business e-commerce (B2B) holding company was one of the most anticipated IPOs in 1999. ICG’s goal was to build companies that could obtain number one or two positions in their…
Steven Brandt
2002
In 2002, Dr. Jose Garcia, president of Lonestar Electronics Inc., convened the company’s managing board and raised the issue of company productivity. Garcia believed that Lonestar, a designer and manufacturer of instruments and systems headquartered in…
William Barnett, Janet Feldstein
2002
In the spring of 2001, two recent graduates of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, John Fowler and Josh Greenberg, founded Montebello Capital, a search fund, as a vehicle for buying a company that they would run as CEO and president. The case follows…
Harold Grousbeck, Kevin Taweel
2002
Bob Nylen and Dan Okrent were publisher and editors respectively, ex New England Monthly, a regional magazine the pair founded in 1983. Although not a financial success thus far - the magazine continually operated in the red - it was an editorial hit. It…
Mark Benning, Dennis Rohan, Alicia Seiger
2002
The case is a full-scale business plan for the launch of an Internet service provider for the Pacific Rim. Set in 1993, the case has a short introduction followed by the business plan for PacNet. Dr. Kevin Wong, PacNet’s founder, plans to take advantage…
Garth Saloner, Janet Feldstein
2002
Scott Brady, Dave Leeds, Harpinder “Harpi” Singh Madan, and Eric Botto met at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) at the height of the dot-com boom. Harpi and Dave first met in 1998 as first-year students in Stanford’s MBA program. Both came…
Sea-Jin Chang, Joel Podolny
2002
In 2000, Samsung Electronics was the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductor memory chips. It’s main line of business was the manufacture of DRAM chips, but worldwide demand had plummeted. Moreover, Intel, the world’s largest producer of…
Sea-Jin Chang, Joel Podolny
2002
In 2000, Samsung Electronics was the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductor memory chips. It’s main line of business was the manufacture of DRAM chips, but worldwide demand had plummeted. Moreover, Intel, the world’s largest producer of…
Christopher Flanagan, H. Grousbeck
2002
A search fund is an investment vehicle in which investors financially support an entrepreneurs’ efforts to locate and acquire a privately held company. This study examines investment returns of first-time search funds.
William Barnett, Andrea Higuera, Aimee Swanson
2002
SkyStream Networks was a worldwide networking infrastructure company whose products enabled service providers to create new revenue streams by delivering digital media services like corporate communications, live broadcast video, enhanced TV, media asset…
William Barnett, Andrea Higuera, Aimee Swanson
2002
This case is not a stand-alone case, but rather should be used in conjunction with the case SkyStream Networks (A) E-135. It has been designed to be handed out to students during class following a discussion of Case A. Case A chronicles the history of…
Christopher Canellos, David Hoyt
2002
In 1993, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued two Statements, Number 116: Accounting for Contributions Received and Contributions Made, and Number 117: Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations. These required significant changes to…