Jeffrey Pfeffer
2000
In 2000, SAS Institute, the largest privately-owned software company in the world, confronted the decision of whether or not to become a public company. The organization, known for its family-friendly policies and low turnover, had to consider whether…
Haim Mendelson, Philip Meza
2000
This case traces AOL’s evolution from Internet Service Provider (ISP) to media empire. In 2000, AOL controlled a wide variety of Internet and media assets including vast content arms (e.g. Time Magazine), broadcasters (e.g. CNN) and cable systems. In…
Haim Mendelson
2000
The case sets Dell’s direct model, internet strategy and management of information into historical context by first describing the computer industry’s shift in the mid-80’s from vertically-integrated corporations like IBM, DEC and NCR to a collection of…
Harold Grousbeck, Brian Trelstad
2000
The case profiles the start-up and financing of RentWise, a national chain of Rent-to-Own stores. Doug Wells graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1995 and started a search fund to identify business opportunities in an industry…
H. Grousbeck, Keith Sigg
2000
In launching an assisted living organization, an entrepreneur faces operational challenges, causing her to question the current leadership team’s abilities to successfully grow the company.
Nathaniel Durant, H. Grousbeck
2000
The case describes the difficult times leading up to the arrival of a new CEO at Vicinity Corporation. The case gives background on the new CEO as well as on the company. After two successful rounds of funding and successful product development, the…
Harold Grousbeck, Pratap Mukherjee
2000
Discovery Zone is a retail chain of child play centers that was founded in 1990 by Jim Jorgensen, a serial entrepreneur, and partners. The case gives background on Jim and his partners as well as the founding of the company. After their first retail…
H. Grousbeck, Brian Keare
2000
This case describes the story of Phoenix Industries, a computer document assembly software company, and its management team. After a venture capital investment in the company, the company brought in a professional management team and the founder remained…
David Hoyt, Karen Nelson
2000
Sarah Simons, an investment analyst for the retail industry, has just received the Sears, Roebuck and Co. 1999 Annual Report. Sears has had trouble in the past with the collectibility of receivables from customer credit purchases using the Sears Card…
Antonio Davila, Marc Wouters
2000
In August 1998, Kerry King, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ultratech Corporation looked with great interest at the changes that were occurring in the technology industry. Ultratech Corporation had an opportunity to enter into a strategic merger…
Nathaniel Durant, Harold Grousbeck
2000
This case describes the opportunity to conduct a strategic acquisition. The case starts out giving background on the entrepreneur and the presort mail industry. Then, it chronicles the entrepreneur’s original acquisition of his first presort company and…
Margot Sutherland, Ezra Zuckerman
2000
The business case study describes a small consulting business, Business Networks, led by Les Cunningham. The firm’s primary product was the establishment of groups or “networks” of similar businesses and the facilitation of each network’s biannual…
Glenn Carroll, Victoria Chang, Jennifer Chatman
2000
The results of restructuring.
David Baron
2000
In 2000, eBay was faced with the challenge of protecting important strategic assets its database and the community it had developed - while allowing information to flow freely on the Internet. eBay’s information assets were invaluable to the company for…
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Victoria Chang, Kimberly Elsbach
2000
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld was a Professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He was a “star” at Emory and was extremely popular with the students. He was also extremely successful at raising funds for Emory’s Center for Leadership and Career…
Robert Burgelman
2000
For the first time in its history, Hewlett Packard chose an outsider, Carly Fiorina, to lead the company as CEO. HP had championed many of the techniques and philosophies (sometimes referred to as the “HP Way”) that led to the spectacular growth of…
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2000
The popularity of file sharing services like Napster and processing sharing services such as SETI @ Home have underscored the potential power of peer-to-peer (p2p) networking and processing. While much of the attention surrounding p2p technologies…
David Baron, Victoria Chang
2000
Vice President of the Security Products Division of Sophis Networks (a company whose identity has been masked) with the Government Affairs Group had spent the last two and a half years working closely with Congress and the Clinton Administration to relax…
David Baron, Victoria Chang
2000
Vice President of the Security Products Division of Sophis Networks (a company whose identity has been masked) with the Government Affairs Group had spent the last two and a half years working closely with Congress and the Clinton Administration to relax…
J.G. Dees, B. Vannani
2000
In May, 2000 Hudi Podolsky assumed the position of Executive Director of CES and needed to act quickly. CES was an early educational reform organization dedicated to widespread implementation of certain fundamental educational principles in primary and…
T. Anderson, J.B. Grewel
2000
US Forest Capital was founded in 1998 by Joe Euphrat and Tom Tuchmann to allow non-profit organizations to participate in the market for forestland through low yield tax-exempt revenue bonds and thereby make tax exempt sustainable forestry a reality. With…
M. Johnson, Hau Lee
2000
Agile was a supplier of product content management software for use over the Internet within and among companies in a manufacturing supply chain. The suite of Agile products was designed to improve the ability of the supply chain members to communicate…
Mary Barth, David Hoyt
2000
This case explores the issue of accounting for in-process research and development (IPRD) for an acquisition under purchase-method accounting. The case provides information on acquisition accounting, and the standards used for defining and treating IPRD…
Mary Barth, David Hoyt
2000
AOL Releases Q4 1998 Operating Results and provides the Company’s immediate response