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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Beneficial State Bank (A): Organization and Measurement of Social Impact
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-SI134A-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn November 2004, as presidential hopeful John Kerry conceded the presidential race to George W. Bush, husband and wife team and Democratic supporters Tom Steyer (MBA ’83) and Kat Taylor (JD/MBA ’86) found themselves at an impasse in their political endeavors. The lost presidential bid was not only disappointing but left the couple seeking out new avenues to benefit from their time, passion, and energy. For Taylor, the idea of a beneficial ban...Starting at €8.20
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Beneficial State Bank (A): Organization and Measurement of Social Impact - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-SI134ATN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn November 2004, as presidential hopeful John Kerry conceded the presidential race to George W. Bush, husband and wife team and Democratic supporters Tom Steyer (MBA ’83) and Kat Taylor (JD/MBA ’86) found themselves at an impasse in their political endeavors. The lost presidential bid was not only disappointing but left the couple seeking out new avenues to benefit from their time, passion, and energy. For Taylor, the idea of a beneficial ban...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 1: Business Characteristics and Financial Statement Relationships
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A211-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis requires an understanding of a firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual (2012) balance sheet and income statements for five firms in the Software and Services industry, a subset of the Information Technology sector, and four firms in the Retailing...Starting at €8.20
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Exercise 1: Business Characteristics and Financial Statement Relationships - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A211TN-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis requires an understanding of a firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual (2012) balance sheet and income statements for five firms in the Software and Services industry, a subset of the Information Technology sector, and four firms in the Retailing...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A212-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €8.20
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A212TN-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 3: Earnings Management and the Financial Statement
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A213-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis allows for the identification of lower quality earnings and potential earnings management. This case contains two separate cases within the Management Services and Information Technology Services industries. Each case presents a series of clues along with originally reported common-size financial statements and selected notes compiled from the financial statements for two competing firms in these two indus...Starting at €8.20
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The Farm Winery
Madhav Rajan, Anne Beyer, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A217-EAccounting and ControlIn early December 2013, Jim Madsen, co-founder and owner of The Farm Winery was preparing the company’s current and longer-term financing needs. Madsen needed to develop plans for fiscal year 2014, which included specific goals that were crucial to the success of the business. First, although the founders had historically contributed capital to meet seasonal cash needs, they were determined to achieve a point of self-sustainability. Next, the bu...Starting at €8.20
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BreatheScreen Inc. Transaction Analysis and Financial Statements
Madhav Rajan, Anne Beyer, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A216-EAccounting and ControlDr. John Anderson plans to license a technology that will be used to develop a device that would help physicians detect early-stage cancers. Patients would breathe directly into the device, which would analyze a user’s breath for traces of key compounds associated with the most common cancers. In addition to eliminating the need for invasive biopsy procedures, the screening tool would also be inexpensive, easy to use, and provide immediate resul...Starting at €8.20