Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Pay For Success and Social Innovation Financing: Serving Santa Clara County's Mentally Ill Residents
Brest, P; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-SI133-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2016, Santa Clara County was launching a six-year project aimed at reducing the enormous costs of treating its most acute mental health care patients − $45 million a year − while improving their treatment and quality of life. For the project, the county chose a new model called "Pay for Success" (PFS), in which governments only pay service providers if their efforts are successful. By contrast, in the traditional payment model, providers bill...Starting at €8.20
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Waste Management's Organic Growth Group
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Uribe, TCase SGSB-SM210-EStrategyIt was 2005 and David Steiner, CEO of Waste Management (WM), had just received a report from an internal advisory panel created some months before to assess the future of the waste management industry and propose how the company’s strategy should be adapted. The core of this report was the recommendation to create a special unit within the company, chartered with the central purpose of identifying ways to extract value from waste through new and ...Starting at €8.20
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Ditto - Teaching Note
Fern Mandelbaum, Julieta DuekTeaching Note SGSB-E508TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe case tells the story of Kate Doerksen in her journey as founder and CEO of Ditto, an eyewear e-commerce company that introduced virtual fitting technology. The case covers the period from the founding of the company in 2010 to its situation in December 2012, when the company faced a number of decisions including facing lawsuits from a competitor and a patent troll. This case focuses on the following elements of Doerksen’s story: • How Doer...Starting at €0.00
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Ditto
Fern Mandelbaum, Julieta DuekCase SGSB-E508-EEntrepreneurshipThe case tells the story of Kate Doerksen in her journey as founder and CEO of Ditto, an eyewear e-commerce company that introduced virtual fitting technology. The case covers the period from the founding of the company in 2010 to its situation in December 2012, when the company faced a number of decisions including facing lawsuits from a competitor and a patent troll. This case focuses on the following elements of Doerksen’s story: • How Doer...Starting at €8.20