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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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PMC-Sierra: Riding the Waves of Disruption (B)
; Schifrin, Debra;Case SGSB-SM272BStrategyThis case details how semiconductor company PMC-Sierra implemented different corporate entrepreneurship strategies to take advantage of two major industry disruptions: 1) the transition from hard disk drives to solid state drives; and 2) the rise of cloud computing. The core business of PMC-Sierra’s enterprise storage business was developing products called controllers that interfaced directly with hard disk drives. The company sold these control...Starting at €0.00
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Fair Trade USA: Innovating for Impact ? Teaching note
Aubry R; Drabkin DTeaching Note SGSB-SI39TN-EInnovation and ChangePaul Rice knew that Fair Trade could do more, much more. While the model had benefited approximately 10 million people in developing countries, they were a small percentage of the 2 billion people worldwide who lived on less than $2 day. Fair Trade was not charity. It was a certification model that had started around coffee and ensured that money flowed back to the people who grew the coffee, giving them a ?Fair Trade? price. As president and...Starting at €0.00
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The Rockefeller Foundation: Innovation in Social Finance
Arrillaga-Andreessen, L; Murray, SCase SGSB-SI142-EInnovation and ChangeWhen Judith Rodin became president of The Rockefeller Foundation in 2005, she identified a pressing need to re-organize the foundation to meet the challenges in an increasingly complex world. Rodin also recognized that for philanthropy to make meaningful progress in solving the world?s biggest problems, it could not act alone. Innovation at Rockefeller: Innovation at Rockefeller dates back to its earliest years, when the foundation funded innova...Starting at €6.75
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Pay For Success and Social Innovation Financing: Serving Santa Clara County's Mentally Ill Residents
Brest, P; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-SI133-EInnovation and ChangeIn 2016, Santa Clara County was launching a six-year project aimed at reducing the enormous costs of treating its most acute mental health care patients ? $45 million a year ? while improving their treatment and quality of life. For the project, the county chose a new model called "Pay for Success" (PFS), in which governments only pay service providers if their efforts are successful. By contrast, in the traditional payment model, providers bill...Starting at €6.75
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Repsol and YPF (C): Recovering Value
Shotts, K; Casey, K; Melvin, SCase SGSB-P90C-EEconomicsBack in 1999, the Spanish oil company Repsol purchased 98 percent of the Argentine oil company YPF?s shares for more than $15 billion and changed its name to Repsol-YPF. At the time, the New York Times said the deal ?appears to be a perfect marriage? and asked, ?Repsol-YPF: As Good as It Gets?? However, on April 16, 2012, that ?perfect marriage? was effectively annulled when Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that her go...Starting at €6.75
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Repsol and YPF (A): A Perfect Marriage?
Shotts, K; Casey, K; Melvin, SCase SGSB-P90A-EEconomicsBack in 1999, the Spanish oil company Repsol purchased 98 percent of the Argentine oil company YPF?s shares for more than $15 billion and changed its name to Repsol-YPF. At the time, the New York Times said the deal ?appears to be a perfect marriage? and asked, ?Repsol-YPF: As Good as It Gets?? However, on April 16, 2012, that ?perfect marriage? was effectively annulled when Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that her go...Starting at €6.75
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Willkommen to Europe: The Political Economy of Migration Policy in Germany
Scheve, K; , Gaikwad, NCase SGSB-P85-EEconomicsStarting at €6.75
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BrightSource: Challenges and Prospects for a Concentrated Solar Power Plant
Kennedy D; Schifrin DCase SGSB-P84-EEconomicsThe case presents the challenges confronting BrightSource, a company building a commercial-scale concentrated solar power plant in California in 2013: 1) environmentalists wanted to protect a threatened species at the site of the new plant, 2) competing solar power technology had become much cheaper in recent years, and 3) the company had been unable to get investors for its new thermal storage technology, which could be a game changer for the in...Starting at €6.75
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Natural Gas and Its Role in the New Energy Dynamics
Donald Kennedy, Debra SchifrinCase SGSB-P83-EEconomics?Natural Gas and Its Role in the New Energy Dynamics? presents a comprehensive look at new natural gas extraction technology (hydraulic fracturing or ?fracking? and horizontal drilling), as well as the economic and climate effects of the recent dramatic increase in unconventional natural gas production and consumption. It discusses the impact of the low natural gas prices in the U.S., as well as the lucrative arbitrage opportunities in transporti...Starting at €6.75
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Managing Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano (A) - (C) - Teaching note
Jha, S, Schifrin, DTeaching Note SGSB-P78TN-EEconomicsManaging Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano highlights the role of political geography in shaping risks to businesses. The case has three parts: an (A) case, (B) case, and (C) case. The (A) case is set in 2006 and discusses the decision Tata Motors must make about where in India to locate a manufacturing plant to build the Nano ? the world?s cheapest car. The (A) case presents four possible locations, and the students must evaluate which...Starting at €0.00
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