H. Grousbeck, Brian Keare
1996
This case describes the story of StorMedia, from its acquisition by Bill Almon to its going public only a short while later. The first part of the case describes the acquisition of the company and the readers are asked to evaluate Almon’s execution of…
H. Grousbeck, B. Keare
1996
This case describes the formation and growth of Ariel Capital Management, a money management firm owned and operated by a charismatic African-American leader. The case gives some background on the founder and the origin of the firm, as well as its…
Charles Holloway
1996
Sun’s strategy is to identify 2-3 key leading edge differentiators for its products and standardize elsewhere, leading it to outsource the bulk of its manufacturing. Issues surrounding this strategy include: 1) selecting responsibilities within the…
Haim Mendelson, P. Afeche
1996
The Internet has evolved over time from a specialized research and education network to the backbone of electronic commerce. The seemingly chaotic structure of the Internet, the cyberspace culture and the Internet’s technical specifications can be better…
David P. Baron
1996
The Eastman Kodak Company filed a market-opening petition under U.S. trade law alleging that practices in the distribution system for photographic film and paper in Japan blocked exports. Kodak accompanied its petition with an integrated market and…
Robert Burgelman
1996
Discusses how Microsoft came to dominate the computer software industry by 1996. Microsoft’s domination was not inevitable or guaranteed. Discusses the battle between Windows and IBM’s OS/2 in the early 1990s, while offering a glimpse at the personal…
Thomas Hellmann, Kimberly Abell, Aditya Dehejia
1996
This case examines how an entrepreneur takes a business abroad. After successfully having started a temporary employment business for specialized laboratory workers in the U.S., Bruce Culver starts a company that pursues the same opportunity first in…
Daniel Diermeier
1996
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies owns a petroleum platform, the Brent Spar, in the North Sea. The Brent Spar is an oil storage facility and tanker loading buoy. It came to the end of its useful life and was taken out of commission in September…
Rajiv Lal, Mark Leschly
1996
In April 1994, just one week before officially taking over as CEO, Jan Leschly faced one of the most difficult decisions of his career. The management team had been negotiating with United Healthcare Corp., one of the largest HMOs, for the acquisition of…
S. Datar, M. Epstein, K. White
1996
The Bristol-Myers Squibb: Accounting for Product Life Cycle Costs at Matrix Essentials is set in Matrix Essentials Inc., a subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb, that manufactures shampoos and hair conditioners. The case describes the product life-cycle…
Mary Barth, Dale Coxe
1996
FASB chairman and members debate fair value accounting for banks’ securities investments. Issues pro and con raised by various constituents include accounting appropriateness, economic and regulatory effects, and issues articulated in comment letters…
John Roberts
1995
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a subsidiary of Tata Enterprises, a member of the House of Tata group, is a Bombay-based 1.6 billion-rupee (1991) developer of software for both domestic and international customers. The case describes the software…
William Barnett, Paul Reddy
1995
Newell Co.’s overall strategy of acquiring, manufacturing, and marketing a broad line of branded staple consumer products to national mass merchandisers had been highly profitable, as had its ongoing investments in market-leading information technology…
William Barnett, Glenn Carroll, Wendy Harrington
1995
In 1983, the Mendocino Brewing Company (MBC) established The Hopland Brewery, the first brewpub opened in California after Prohibition. Years later, MBC was still recognized for its contributions as a pioneer in the craft-brew industry. While craft…
Sara Billman, David Hosley
1995
Larkin Business Ventures, a non profit organization spun off from a social services agency for homeless and runaway youth, is creating a network of innovative businesses that provide healthy, respectful workplaces where youth who have lacked opportunities…
Sara Billman, David Hosley
1995
The Larkin Street Youth Center had just completed an intensive two year review of its mission, searching for long-term prospects that would help keep youth off the streets and involved in worthwhile, self-esteem building projects. Sharon Wurtzel, a recent…
Seungjin Whang, Hau Lee
1995
Provides an overview of the information flows in a manufacturing organization that uses R/3, an integrated suite of enterprise management software packages offered by SAP AG. General Equipment Corp. is assumed to have implemented three modules of R/3-…
Haim Mendelson
1995
Each year, the Internal Revenue Service performs audits of a fraction of all the tax returns filed. These audits are constrained by Congressional budget allocations made in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget (0MB). This case analyzes…
David Montgomery
1995
Tyrix Communications Corporation (fictitious company) is considering how to expand internationally in view of the maturation of its home market (the U.S.) At issue is which countries to enter and how to enter each market.
Constance Bagley, Richard Ostrander
1995
Examines an Indian joint venture between a large U.S. telecommunications company and a small Indian software company, including a business and legal analysis of a joint-venture term sheet. Issues include extraterritorial application of U.S. antitrust and…
Charles O'Reilly III
1995
During a summer executive program for human resource executives, the (A) case was assigned. After reading the case, a study group of four executives decided that the description in the (A) case was too positive and could not be accurate. To test this, the…
Charles O'Reilly III, Jeffrey Pfeffer
1995
In 1994 both United Airlines and Continental Airlines launched a low-cost airlines-within-an airline to compete with Southwest Airlines. From 1991 until 1993 Southwest had increased its market share of the critical West Coast market from 26 percent to 45…
Anat R. Admati, Paul Pfleiderer, George Noroian
1995
It was mid-afternoon on September 15, 1994, and Stephen Calloway was wondering how to tackle the crash assignment just given to him by his boss, Katherine Metcalfe, Vice President for Strategic Planning at Liz Claiborne. He had been on the job just two…
James Van Horne
1995
This case involves setting up cash flows for determining the net present value, IRR and payback period of an investment project. There is an inflation assumption for the cash flows, which introduces the issue of whether it is consistent with the inflation…