Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Movile: Lessons from Silicon Valley to China
Ziebelman, Peter; Feldhausen, ErikaCase SGSB-E728-EEntrepreneurshipThis case introduces students to the large Brazilian mobile conglomerate, Movile, and its mobile food delivery subsidiary, iFood. It focuses on the experiences of these companies learning business lessons from Silicon Valley and China. In particular, the case discusses how the executive teams developed relationships with important companies and leaders in these markets to set up an open exchange of information.Starting at €8.20
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Invitrogen (A)
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209A-EStrategyFounded in 1987, Invitrogen was one of the largest catalog life science companies in the industry. Its customers came from academic research, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and government laboratories. Scientists viewed Invitrogen as a one-stop shop for all major molecular biology, biochemistry and cell culture reagent products, with prices ranging from a hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars.Starting at €8.20
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Invitrogen/Life Technologies (B)
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209B-EStrategyOn June 12, 2008, Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems announced plans to merge. The combined company was to be renamed Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE). Invitrogen offered to acquire Applied Biosystems for $6.7 billion in cash and stock. AB shareholders would receive $38 per share in cash and stock, representing a 17 percent premium over the share’s closing price on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.Starting at €5.74
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Tim Harkness: Starting Over - Teaching Note
Robert Siegel, Jessica MorganTeaching Note SGSB-E564TN-EEntrepreneurshipThis case profiles the journey of protagonist Tim Harkness through his many entrepreneurial pursuits. It chronicles his early career and how a bout of serendipity landed him a job in the life sciences tools industry. From there, Harkness went on to lead another life sciences tools company, and transformed the company from an under-performing venture-backed start-up to a profitable multi-product firm. After four acquisitions, a failed sales p...Starting at €0.00
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ComplexAminos
Robert Siegel, Jessica MorganCase SGSB-E565-EEntrepreneurshipThis case explores the transformation of a company, ComplexAminos, from a failing start-up to a successful organization preparing for a liquidity event. After conducting a six-year turnaround strategy, the CEO needed to decide whether the company should go public or be sold. During the turnaround, the company adopted a roll-up strategy to grow quickly. This case explores such issues as when roll-ups are appropriate and how the CEO gained the f...Starting at €8.20
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Tim Harkness: Starting Over
Robert Siegel, Jessica MorganCase SGSB-E564-EEntrepreneurshipThis case profiles the journey of protagonist Tim Harkness through his many entrepreneurial pursuits. It chronicles his early career and how a bout of serendipity landed him a job in the life sciences tools industry. From there, Harkness went on to lead another life sciences tools company, and transformed the company from an under-performing venture-backed start-up to a profitable multi-product firm. After four acquisitions, a failed sales p...Starting at €8.20
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Bumble
Weaver, Graham; Feldhausen, Erika; Mansfield, ImogenCase SGSB-E733-EEntrepreneurshipThis case details the various challenges that Whitney Wolfe Herd faced in starting and scaling Bumble. The case explores critical decisions that Wolfe Herd had to make, including which investors to raise money from, how to pitch her ‘women message first’ dating app to the group of male engineers who could build it, and how to make leadership and reporting line changes as the company scaled.Starting at €8.20
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Scaling ALLVP in Latin America
Ciesinski, Steve; Rosen, Howie; Feldhausen, ErikaCase SGSB-E712-EEntrepreneurshipThis case describes the development of ALLVP, a Mexico-based venture capital firm, from founding to Fund III. It discusses how Federico Antoni and Fernando Lelo de Larrea, ALLVP’s founders, positioned the firm to address unmet funding needs in Mexico’s nascent entrepreneurial market. The case also examines venture capital more broadly throughout Latin America, including the dominance of VC in Brazil, international investment, and structural barri...Starting at €8.20
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Eyewitness Surveillance II
Grousbeck, Irving H; Dodson, David; Feldhausen, ErikaCase SGSB-E-724-EEntrepreneurshipThe Eyewitness Surveillance II case tells the story of Rush Arnold and RT McCloy, friends who met while studying at Wharton, who raise a search fund under the name Channelstone Partners. In the fall of 2010, after having spent two-thirds of their search fund capital and reviewed over 200 companies, they came across Eyewitness Surveillance, a company specializing in the use of video technology to protect the assets of car dealerships. Eyewitnes...Starting at €8.20
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Gainsight: Leading by Example in Customer Success
Bowman, Kirk; Lattin, James; Feldhausen, ErikaCase SGSB-E682-EDecision AnalysisThis case describes the evolution of the customer success function through the rise of Gainsight. It discusses the responsibilities of the customer success function, measuring and compensating customer success teams, and the return on investment for adding a customer success organization. It also describes some of the different forms customer success can take across firms.Starting at €8.20