Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Financial Statement Analysis (A)
McNichols, Maureen; Tayan, BrianCase SGSB-A186A-EFinanceA financial statement, ratio analysis involving a high-growth retail company. An individual shareholder in the Costco Wholesale Corp. is trying to evaluate the operational performance of the business she has invested in over the last five years. She seeks to answer two questions: Has Costco become more or less efficient over this time period? And how has it financed its growth? She organizes her analysis into three parts: common-size financial st...Starting at €8.20
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Forestry and Timberland: Impact Investment Analysis
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI156-EInnovation and ChangeMuch like the famous philosophical thought experiment, impact investing raises questions about perception, observation, and reality. What is our sense that an investment results in social, environmental, and financial return? What changes can we observe taking place? What is the state of the situation as it exists (perhaps by measurement)? This case study applies this framework to our analysis of the social, environmental, and financial impact of...Starting at €8.20
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Nuveen and the Seychelles Blue Bond: Analayzing a Public Fixed Income Impact Investment
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI163-EInnovation and ChangeIn 2016, Stephen M. Liberatore, CFA, lead portfolio manager for and head of Nuveen’s impact fixed income strategies, received a phone call from the World Bank. The call was not unusual; in fact, Nuveen had collaborated with the World Bank in the past as lead investor on a new type of Green Bond for the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). While Green Bonds had been in existence for nearly a decade, the IFC...Starting at €8.20
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Ascend Behavior Partners: Hiring in a Tight Labor Market
Carroll, Glenn; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-SM355-EStrategyAscend Behavior Partners provided applied behavioral analysis (ABA) services to families with children with autism. The growing autism services market presented a massive opportunity for Ascend to provide quality care to families in need. Ascend’s delivery model relied on board certified behavior analysts (BCBAs), who were the backbone of providing care to families with children with autism. But the severe imbalance between supply and demand f...Starting at €8.20
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Sirum: Scaling a “Tech-for-Good” Medication Donation Platform
Siegelman, Russell; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E815-EEntrepreneurshipKiah Williams started SIRUM as a Stanford undergraduate alongside her classmates Adam Kircher and George Wang. Nearly two decades later, the medication donation nonprofit was now operating in five states across the country and had helped facilitate medication donations to reach 150,000 uninsured and underinsured patients. SIRUM’s technology enabled donors with excess medication supply to donate unexpired, sealed, non-opioid medications to those...Starting at €8.20
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Homecoming Capital: Developing an Impact Strategy
McNichols, Maureen; Foroughi, JocelynCase SGSB-SI159-EInnovation and ChangeIn April 2019, just two months shy of his graduation from Stanford Graduate School of Business (“Stanford”), Cody Evans was looking forward to converting his professional and academic experiences to real-world impact. Having worked at both the largest private equity firm in the world and an energy infrastructure developer in Africa, Evans brought a unique blend of investment rigor and entrepreneurial spirit to Stanford. More importantly, he was d...Starting at €8.20
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Total Venture Design: Creating and Delivering Value
Holloway, Charles; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E823-EEntrepreneurshipCharles Holloway, founder of Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, shares his reflections and learnings on entrepreneurship in this teaching note. Designed to be a hands-on tool for aspiring entrepreneurs, this playbook will frame key questions and provide frameworks to assist in building new ventures.Starting at €8.20
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Nonprofit Business Models and Financial Statement Relationships (A)
McNichols, Maureen; Foroughi; JaclynCase SGSB-SI137A-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThorough analysis of various nonprofit business models requires an understanding of each firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual balance sheet, income, and cash flow statements for eight nonprofit firms in the U.S. for the 2018 or 2019 fiscal year (compiled from either audited financi...Starting at €8.20
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Nonprofit Business Models and Financial Statement Relationships (B) - Teaching note
McNichols, Maureen; Foroughi; JaclynTeaching Note SGSB-SI137BTN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThorough analysis of various nonprofit business models requires an understanding of each firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual balance sheet, income, and cash flow statements for eight nonprofit firms in the U.S. for the 2018 or 2019 fiscal year (compiled from either audited financi...Starting at €0.00
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Financial Statement Analysis (A) - Teaching Note
McNichols, Maureen; Tayan, BrianTeaching Note SGSB-A186ATN-EFinanceA financial statement, ratio analysis involving a high-growth retail company. An individual shareholder in the Costco Wholesale Corp. is trying to evaluate the operational performance of the business she has invested in over the last five years. She seeks to answer two questions: Has Costco become more or less efficient over this time period? And how has it financed its growth? She organizes her analysis into three parts: common-size financial st...Starting at €0.00