Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Amir Dan Rubin: Success from the Beginning
Pfeffer, JCase SGSB-OB90-ECorporate Governance, StrategyIn November of 2010, the board of Stanford Hospital and Clinics announced that Amir Dan Rubin, at the time chief operating officer of the UCLA Hospital System, would become the next CEO at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Although by 2010 Stanford hospital had largely recovered from a failed merger with the hospital of the University of California, San Francisco, and was financially stable, Rubin would lead an organization that still faced signifi...Starting at €8.20
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Landlocked Homes: Catching a Falling Knife
Abbey, D; Mahowald, C; Lamont, MCase SGSB-RE137-EStrategyWhen Jacob Harold became head of the Hewlett Foundation’s Philanthropy Program, he began to see GuideStar as much more than just a website. GuideStar was the result of founder Arthur “Buzz” Schmidt’s vision of bringing transparency and accountability to the world of nonprofits. At its core, the organization compiled information that U.S. nonprofits submitted on their IRS filings into an easy to use database. It supplemented that information wi...Starting at €8.20
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STRIVR Labs
Foster, George; Rissick, RyanCase SGSB-E590-EEntrepreneurshipNear the end of 2014, Derek Belch decided to turn his master’s thesis into a virtual reality athletic training company called STRIVR Labs [Sports Training in Virtual Reality]. Born out of Stanford University’s famed Virtual Human Interaction Lab, STRIVR garnered immediate interest from a wide array of organizations. Having played and coached football at Stanford University, Belch had connections within several professional and collegiate footba...Starting at €8.20
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Women's Careers and Power: Whay You Need to Know
Pfeffer, JCase SGSB-OB86-EInnovation and ChangeReviews the literature on women’s careers, career disadvantages and their sources, and women’s reactions to power, negotiations including salary negotiations and competition. The note is intended to be used as background for a discussion of the obstacles confronting women in the workplace, some sources of those obstacles, and what women might consider doing differently to surmount the career challenges they confront.Starting at €8.20