Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
-
A Note on Getting the Most Out of Your Board Meetings
Dodson, D; Pohlmeyer, SCase SGSB-E631-EEntrepreneurshipIn your first year as chief executive officer (CEO), you will encounter a host of management challenges and opportunities—all of which can be navigated more skillfully if you can tap into the insights and perspectives of a handful of seasoned operators and investors. For this reason, your board can have a significant impact on the company’s performance. Unfortunately, CEOs often get far less value out of their boards in the first few years than...Starting at €8.20
-
Coppersea: Emergence of the Microdistillery Movement - Teaching Note
Glenn Carroll, Davina DrabkinTeaching Note SGSB-SM233TN-EStrategyBy the spring of 2013, Michael Kinstlick and Angus MacDonald had been running a microdistillery for less than a year. Coppersea, located in New York’s Hudson Valley, produced handcrafted spirits using a unique process based on techniques little-used over the past 300 years. The founders had coined the term Heritage-Methods distilling to describe their process. Although Coppersea was still working to develop a stable and consistent production p...Starting at €0.00
-
Nuria Chinchilla: el poder de cambiar la empresa
Apfeffer, Jeffrey; Anderson, Megan ElisabethCase SGSB-OB67ESStrategyEn 1993, Nuria Chinchilla había completado recientemente su tesis doctoral en IESE Business School en Barcelona, sobre el tema de la rotación organizacional, sin un enfoque particular en las mujeres, los arreglos laborales flexibles o los problemas laborales. Ella eligió permanecer en el IESE, donde había trabajado desde principios de la década de 1980 como profesora asistente. Para el año 2003, poco más de una década después, había alcanzado e...Starting at €8.20
-
Branch Metrics: "Failing" into the Idea
Mandelbaum, F; Pohlmeyer, SCase SGSB-E586-EEntrepreneurshipThis case explores the Branch Metrics’ cofounders’ early days as a team and their pursuit of a viable idea for their startup. The three original cofounders, who met in business school, transformed their business concept entirely several times before finding the idea for Branch Metrics. Starting with a fitness collar for dogs, then starting over with developing a mobile application for low-cost, high-quality photobooks, and ultimately developing a...Starting at €8.20
-
2016 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations
Kelly, P; Dodson, D; Grousheck, IH; Pohlmeyer, S; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E605-EEntrepreneurshipSince 1996, the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has conducted a series of studies on the performance of search funds. These studies endeavor to gather data and gain insight into all known search funds. The studies aggregate the characteristics of search funds, present their principals’ backgrounds, and evaluate the investment returns generated by first-time search funds to their origina...Starting at €8.20
-
Coppersea: Emergence of the Microdistillery Movement
Glenn Carroll, Davina DrabkinCase SGSB-SM233-EStrategyBy the spring of 2013, Michael Kinstlick and Angus MacDonald had been running a microdistillery for less than a year. Coppersea, located in New York’s Hudson Valley, produced handcrafted spirits using a unique process based on techniques little-used over the past 300 years. The founders had coined the term Heritage-Methods distilling to describe their process. Although Coppersea was still working to develop a stable and consistent production p...Starting at €8.20