Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Collette Realty: A Struggling Apartment Complex
Abbey, D; Crews, N; Malchow, J; Piro, D; Senapati, D; Ressler, A; Drabkin, DCase SGSB-RE139-EEconomicsStephanie Collett sighed as she tried to focus on her laptop. It was late at night shortly before Christmas 2012, and she had spent hours trying to make the math work on a struggling apartment complex. Although she had no training or background in real estate, as a Stanford MBA student (2013), she was the best resource her family had to solve a complex financial dilemma. Her husband’s grandmother had just passed away, leaving the family a port...Starting at €8.20
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Fogdog
Flanagan, C. S.; Glynn, JohnCase SGSB-E100-EEntrepreneurshipEste caso examina el crecimiento y el desarrollo de Fogdog, un minorista de artículos deportivos en línea, desde su fundación, a través de múltiples rondas de financiamiento de capital de riesgo, hasta una OPI y, en última instancia, hasta su venta a Global Sports, uno de sus competidores que cotizan en bolsa. La historia de Fogdog se desarrolla a fines de la década de 1990, cuando la economía de Internet estaba prácticamente explotando con nueva...Starting at €8.20