Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Professor Dodson
Dodson, D,Case SGSB-E448-EEntrepreneurship1. Decision to transfer an African American employee to a different shift at the request of a customer that is uncomfortable with the employee's race. 2. What, if anything, to do about promoting an existing employee to become the protagonist's administrative assistant when the candidate is young and physically attractive, and other employees have voiced their belief that the protagonist has other motives when he does not. 3. How to handle an empl...Starting at €8.20
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First Solar, Inc. in 2013
Burgelman R; Siegel R; Hallmon MCase SGSB-SM190B-EStrategyAn update to First Solar (A), this case highlights changes to the solar energy market between 2010 and 2013 and the resulting challenges that First Solar had to overcome. In addition to increased competition from highly subsidized Chinese manufacturers, First Solar lost its pricing advantage due to a steep decline in material costs for the competing solar cell technology, c-Sci. The 2008 global financial crisis spurred a dramatic decline in de...Starting at €8.20