Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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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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Logitech (A) Paso del testigo a un director general externo
Davila A; Oyon DCase SGSB-A175AESAccounting and ControlLogitech International era un fabricante líder de ratones y otros dispositivos para controlar computadoras, incluidas las cámaras de PC. En 1998, el nuevo CEO se enteró de que la unidad de negocio Quickcam de Connectix estaba a la venta, una oferta que los fundadores rechazaron porque la tecnología no era tan buena como la cámara Web internamente desarrollada de Logitech, y comprar un producto inferior no era una ventaja. El CEO pensó que volver ...Starting at €8.20
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Logitech (A) Passing the Baton to an External CEO
Davila A; Oyon DCase SGSB-A175A-EAccounting and ControlLogitech International was a leading maker of mice and other devices for controlling computers, including PC cameras. In 1998, the new CEO learned that the Quickcam business unit of Connectix was for sale, an offer the founders had rejected because the technology was not as good as Logitech’s internally developed Web camera, and purchasing an inferior product was not seen as an advantage. The CEO thought that reassessing this acquisition was a ...Starting at €8.20
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B Lab and the Impact Assessment Evolution
Paul Brest, Georgia Levenson KeohaneCase SGSB-SM220-EStrategyThis 2014 case discusses the U.S. nonprofit organization B Lab and its mission to support and help drive investment capital toward private enterprises that 1) aim to provide social and environmental benefits, and 2) are accountable to stakeholders (such as employees and their community) in addition to their equity investors. B Lab created robust tools for assessing the impact of these enterprises so that the social and environmental Return on Inv...Starting at €8.20
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Logitech (B) Passing the Baton to an External CEO
Davila A; Oyon DCase SGSB-A175B-EAccounting and ControlLogitech International was a leading maker of mice and other devices for controlling computers, including PC cameras. In 1998, the new CEO learned that the Quickcam business unit of Connectix was for sale, an offer the founders had rejected because the technology was not as good as Logitech’s internally developed Web camera, and purchasing an inferior product was not seen as an advantage. The CEO thought that reassessing this acquisition was a ...Starting at €5.74