Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Box in 2015: Entering the Next Phase
Robert Burgelman, Robert Siegel, Shalie GaskillCase SGSB-SM215B-EStrategyAs Box continued to mature as a company, the firm fought through the ups and downs of being a highly visible hyper-growth Silicon Valley firm. Box struggled to get its IPO completed, having to deal simultaneously with a volatile stock market and increased scrutiny of its SaaS business model. In parallel, the company worked to aggressively expand its business into large enterprises through a key partnership with IBM, all while working to grow its ...Starting at €8.20
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Graham Weaver
Grousbeck, HI; Feldstein, JCase SGSB-E110-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThis case tells the story of Graham Weaver, a young entrepreneur, as he forms and grows a private equity company over the course of three years. While still a student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Graham began a search process to acquire a small company. Having purchased his first company, a label manufacturer, in 1998, he goes on to acquire six more in the same space, all of which he now owns under the umbrella Alpine Ventures. As C...Starting at €8.20
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Graham Weaver - Teaching note
Grousbeck, HI; Feldstein, JTeaching Note SGSB-E110TN-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThis case tells the story of Graham Weaver, a young entrepreneur, as he forms and grows a private equity company over the course of three years. While still a student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Graham began a search process to acquire a small company. Having purchased his first company, a label manufacturer, in 1998, he goes on to acquire six more in the same space, all of which he now owns under the umbrella Alpine Ventures. As C...Starting at €0.00
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Lighthouse
Grousbeck, HI; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E628-EEntrepreneurshipJosie Sung and Greg McNamara founded Denver-based Lighthouse Systems in 2006 shortly after graduating from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2005. After exploring several ideas, they landed on a technology solution for helping large corporations better communicate with their customers. However, after running into a few roadblocks in the early days, the company pivoted as it learned more about its customers’ needs. Now, almost seven y...Starting at €8.20
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Box: Building the Next Generation Enterprise Software Company
Robert Burgelman, Robert Siegel, Shalie GaskillCase SGSB-SM215-EStrategyCEO Aaron Levie co-founded Box as a student at USC in 2004. Less than 10 years later, Box had become one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Silicon Valley, serving more than 180,000 businesses including marquee customers such as Proctor and Gamble, Panasonic, and Avaya. Despite this success, Levie was concerned about the future. He and his leadership team would need to overcome significant hurdles to turn Box into one of the...Starting at €8.20