Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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The Himalayan Cataract Project
Schulman, Kevin; Hu, Summer; Xue, Jiayin; Qi, SusanCase SGSB-A237-EAccounting and ControlCataracts robbed an estimated 65 million people around the world of their vision. In the Himalayas, where hundreds of thousands of people went needlessly blind from cataracts, doctors Sanduk Ruit and Fred Hollows began to tackle this health crisis in 1995 with the Himalayan Cataract Project, believing they could adopt new techniques and lens technology to scale high-quality, high-volume, and low-cost cataract operations in remote communities. T...Starting at €8.20
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SK Planet in 2013: A Korean Giant's Big Bet on the U.S. Market
Burgelman, R; Chung, S, C; Nathanson, J; Lee, Won-yohCase SGSB-SM222-EStrategyThe case details the strategic decisions that SK Planet, a leader in web and mobile services in its home country of Korea, needed to make regarding the best way to carry out an aggressive global expansion—most importantly into the United States. The $1 billion company had a war chest of $600 million in cash, which allowed company leadership to consider three strategic options for evaluation: 1) Port or rebrand SK Planet’s top-ranked Korean servic...Starting at €8.20