Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (A): Disruptive Innovation in Major League Baseball
Foster, G; O'Reilly, N,, Lippert, R,, Shimizu, C,, Udseth, KCase SGSB-SPM53A-ECorporate Governance, StrategyBilly Beane and the Oakland A’s have ‘changed the game’ in terms of talent identification, analytics, and player investment in Major League Baseball (MLB). Cases A and B are designed to provide and inspire learning on these topics by recounting Billy Beane’s success as the Oakland A’s General Manager over the past 16 seasons (1998 to 2013). The case, through analysis of performance and financial data over this time period, establishes Beane as ...Starting at €8.20
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Byteboard: Reinventing the Technical Interview (A)
Siegelman, Russell; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-E768A-EEntrepreneurshipByteboard aims to replace the pre-on-site technical interview for software engineers with a more effective, efficient, and equitable web-based assessment. The case follows the founding team’s journey from problem definition and customer development through the testing of their minimum viable product and validation of their core value hypothesis. By recounting Byteboard’s early quest towards product-market fit, the case poses several key questio...Starting at €8.20
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Illuminate Ventures: Rising a Venture Fund
Bernstein, S; Korteweg, A; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E473-EEntrepreneurshipIt was the spring of 2010 and Cindy Padnos had just been named to Fast Company’s list of “The Most Influential Women in Technology in 2010.” Cindy had worked in the venture capital (VC) space for over a decade, launching her own firm, Illuminate Ventures, in 2009 with a focus on early-stage companies in the enterprise cloud computing space. Cindy’s portfolio of personal investments was performing well, and if she could perform as well for Illum...Starting at €8.20
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Guild
Weaver, Graham; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-E767-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows the formation and growth of Guild, a company founded on the mission to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling for working employees. By connecting employees to educational programs through its three-sided marketplace, Guild increased access to learning opportunities for employees, improved retention and employee satisfaction for companies, and drove higher numbers of learners for universitie...Starting at €8.20
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Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (B): Advanced Metrics Beyond Baseball
Foster, G; O'Reilly, N,, Lippert, R,, Shimizu, C,, Udseth, KCase SGSB-SPM53B-ECorporate Governance, StrategyBilly Beane and the Oakland A’s have ‘changed the game’ in terms of talent identification, analytics, and player investment in Major League Baseball (MLB). Cases A and B are designed to provide and inspire learning on these topics by recounting Billy Beane’s success as the Oakland A’s General Manager over the past 16 seasons (1998 to 2013). The case, through analysis of performance and financial data over this time period, establishes Beane as ...Starting at €5.74
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Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics (B): Advanced Metrics Beyond Baseball - Teaching Note
Foster, G; O'Reilly, N,, Lippert, R,, Shimizu, C,, Udseth, KTeaching Note SGSB-SPM53TN-ECorporate Governance, StrategyBilly Beane and the Oakland A’s have ‘changed the game’ in terms of talent identification, analytics, and player investment in Major League Baseball (MLB). Cases A and B are designed to provide and inspire learning on these topics by recounting Billy Beane’s success as the Oakland A’s General Manager over the past 16 seasons (1998 to 2013). The case, through analysis of performance and financial data over this time period, establishes Beane as ...Starting at €0.00
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Cinnamon: New Product Introduction
Siegel, Robert; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-SM357-EStrategyThis case explores the introduction of a new product that targets both new and existing segments of the investment management services market. Cinnamon, a discretionary investment management app, was founded in the United Kingdom in 2011. With the help of the team’s first product manager, Maria Pasquale (GSB ’11), Cinnamon navigated the new product introduction process: identifying unmet needs, developing value hypotheses, building a minimum vi...Starting at €8.20
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ServiceNow: Workflow Platform Driving Rapid Organic Growth
Siegel, Robert; Goldberg, Amir; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-E771-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows the organic growth story of ServiceNow, a workflow platform serving enterprise customers. ServiceNow found product-market fit in streamlining workflows for IT service management. It later evolved its product, engineering, and go-to-market organizations to expand first into adjacencies within IT and then into additional domains such as HR, customer service, and others. The case charts ServiceNow’s path of organic growth towar...Starting at €8.20
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Byteboard: Reinventing the Technical Interview (B)
Siegelman, Russell; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-E768B-EEntrepreneurshipByteboard aims to replace the pre-on-site technical interview for software engineers with a more effective, efficient, and equitable web-based assessment. The case follows the founding team’s journey from problem definition and customer development through the testing of their minimum viable product and validation of their core value hypothesis. By recounting Byteboard’s early quest towards product-market fit, the case poses several key questio...Starting at €5.74