Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Arterys
Chess, Robert; Lehman, CameronCase SGSB-SM297-EStrategyFabien Beckers, Founder and CEO of Arterys, walks through the creation of his medical / AI imaging company, including the equity struggles of the founding team, building the right team and final the right channel sales partners.Starting at €8.20
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Trunk Club - Teaching Note
Grousbeck, I; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E458TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe Trunk Club case begins with a description of the company’s business model and the path that led the main protagonist, Brian Spaly, to the CEO post. Four vignettes compose the main body of the case. The first vignette outlines a series of challenges faced by Spaly during his first ninety days running the business, most notably a situation in which Spaly’s top salesperson threatens to leave with the company’s top five sales reps to start a co...Starting at €0.00
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Search Funds - 2013: Selected Observations
Dodson, D; Kelly, P; Grousbeck, I; Rosenthal, S; Luther, JCase SGSB-E521-EEntrepreneurshipSince 1996, the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business has conducted a series of studies on the performance of search funds. This study, as well as its predecessors, has endeavored to gather data and gain insight into all known search funds. Each of these studies portrays the aggregate characteristics of search funds, presents their principals’ backgrounds, and evaluates the investment returns gener...Starting at €8.20
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General Electric in 2017: Naming and Claiming the Industrial Internet
Siegel, Robert E.; Lehman, CameronCase SGSB-SM288-EStrategyFrom 2010 to 2017, General Electric pivoted from an industrial behemoth to a data-driven tech company by incorporating big data analytics across all of their subsidiaries. As the world’s first “digital industrial” company, it named and the Industrial Internet - the “internet of things” for manufacturing - and is poised to win big in the future, as the current CEO, Jeff Immelt, hands over the reins to his predecessor, John Flannery.Starting at €8.20
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Stanford Management Company in 2018: Venture Capital and Other Asset Allocation
Glynn, John; Lehman, CameronCase SGSB-SM294-EStrategyGreg Milani, Senior Managing Director of the Stanford Management Company, considers how much of Stanford’s $27 billion endowment to allocate to early stage capital, taking into account the various pro’s and con’s of that allocation.Starting at €8.20
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Nuru International
Grousbeck, I; RosenthalCase SGSB-E417-EEntrepreneurshipNuru International was founded in 2008 as a social venture with the goal to eradicate extreme poverty around the world by helping the rural poor achieve self-sufficiency. The case follows Jake Harriman, founder and executive director, through the multiple human resource challenges he must face in building his nonprofit organization. The first of four vignettes involves Kevin Newton, one of Nuru’s first employees, after his promotion to internat...Starting at €8.20
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Trunk Club
Grousbeck, I; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E458-EEntrepreneurshipThe Trunk Club case begins with a description of the company’s business model and the path that led the main protagonist, Brian Spaly, to the CEO post. Four vignettes compose the main body of the case. The first vignette outlines a series of challenges faced by Spaly during his first ninety days running the business, most notably a situation in which Spaly’s top salesperson threatens to leave with the company’s top five sales reps to start a co...Starting at €8.20