Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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DropBox - Series B Financing
Strebulaev, I; Foroughi, J; GouwCase SGSB-F309-EFinanceIn mid-2011, as global markets corrected amid worldwide economic uncertainty, Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the fast-growing file synchronization and sharing company, found himself in a difficult, albeit enviable, situation. Houston, who had already raised over $7 million through two rounds of venture funding (one seed round and a Series A round) and developed a large and growing user base, began receiving significant investor int...Starting at €8.20
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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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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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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
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Costco Wholesale Corporation Financial Statement Analysis (B) - Teaching Note
McNichols, Maureen; Tayan, BrianTeaching Note SGSB-A186BTN-EFinanceAn investor is called on to make a forecast and valuation for Costco. Provides information about the history of Costco as an investment, industry growth drivers, and forecasting models.Starting at €0.00
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Illumen Capital: Bias Reduction to Unlock Impact and Returns
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI162-EInnovation and ChangeBuilding on Nobel Prize-winning research, nearly a decade of experience investing in impact funds, and a lifetime of social and economic justice advocacy, Daryn Dodson’s Illumen Capital, an impact investment fund-of-funds, was at a critical juncture. Prior to founding Illumen in 2017, Dodson struggled with finding a way to transfer the success he had experienced in building awareness across teams at institutional asset allocators on topics of div...Starting at €8.20