Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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SoftBank Vision Fund: Changing Dynamics of Venture Capital
Beyer, Anne; Siegel, Robert; Bekele, GelilaCase SGSB-E782-EEntrepreneurshipThe SoftBank Vision Fund case examines the history and evolution of late-stage venture investing and explores SoftBank’s evolving investment strategy. SoftBank Investment Advisers, the investing arm of SoftBank group, manages two of the world’s largest venture capital funds - SoftBank Vision Funds 1 and 2. The SoftBank Vision Fund case follows Lydia Jett, Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, as she describes the firm’s pre-investment...Starting at €8.20
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Roblox: The Path to Going Public
Beyer, Anne; Siegel, Robert; Bekele, GelilaCase SGSB-E795-EEntrepreneurshipThe leadership team of Roblox was contemplating a public offering in December 2020. Roblox was an online video game platform that offered developers a platform for building new games and a global social network for publishing and hosting online games. Roblox had filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, and registered to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with the ticker symbol “RBLX.” However, at the last minute, a series of market ev...Starting at €8.20
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Pear VC: State of Early Venture in 2022
Beyer, Anne; Siegel, Robert; Bekele, GelilaCase SGSB-E783-EEntrepreneurshipMar Hershenson and Pejman Nozad founded Pear VC in 2014 to invest in early-stage start-ups in Pre-Seed and Seed funding rounds. Over the years, Pear developed numerous cohort-based programs to work with founders and build new ventures such as Pear Garage, Pear Competition, and Pear Fellows. The case examines the history and evolution of the early-stage venture capital industry over the last two decades. The case also explores the challenges asso...Starting at €8.20
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Vitana: Choosing Partners
Dodson, David; Bekele, GelilaCase SGSB-E813-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study examines the founding of Vitana, a dentistry-focused search fund founded by Ashish Bagai, Monika Srivastava, and Amir Fardshi. In this case, students are encouraged to explore the advantages and disadvantages of being solo founders versus having founding partners. The case also delves into the frameworks used to identify attributes, skills and criteria for evaluating prospective co-founders. Additionally, the case examines the pot...Starting at €8.20
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Gary Loveman and Harrah's Entertainment
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Victoria ChangCase SGSB-OB45-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 1998, 38-year-old Gary Loveman was perfectly content with his job as an untenured associate professor at the Harvard Business School (HBS). He was a popular teacher with standing room only classes in service management. He lived comfortably with his family in Massachusetts and had successful consulting engagements and executive education assignments with companies such as Harrah’s Entertainment. His prospects for his tenure review, coming up i...Starting at €8.20
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Esusu: The Missing Link in Credit Reports
Siegelman, Russell; Bekele, GelilaCase SGSB-E770-EEntrepreneurshipAbbey Wemimo and Samir Goel founded Esusu in 2018 to help low-to-moderate-income renters build credit history. Esusu, a for-profit impact focused venture, collected rental payments from property managers and reported this data to major credit bureaus, which helped renters improve their credit scores. In April 2020, only six months after closing their first institutional round of capital, New York state issued a lockdown to prevent the spread of ...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