Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Netflix and the State of Streaming Video in 2011
Feinberg, Yossi; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SM267-EStrategyIn 2010, only 16 percent of Americans were streaming movies and television shows online. By the end of 2011 that number would almost double, and the entertainment industry began barreling towards a digital future. This case follows Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO through the year 2011 as they launched and improved their streaming video capabilities. Though Netflix had historically been the most popular player in the streaming video market, Hulu, A...Starting at €8.20
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The Political Economy of Ethanol Policy in the U.S. and Brazil
Casey, Katherine; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-P103-EStrategyThis case focuses on the political economy of ethanol policy in the United States and Brazil. The cases outlines policies put in place by the governments of the United States and Brazil to bolster the ethanol industry and the role of politics and interest groups.Starting at €8.20
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The Seattle Center Arena (A): Can't Find a Better Man
Foster, George; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SPM56A-EService and Operations ManagementOn December 5, 2018 The Oak View Group (OVG) broke ground on the Seattle Center Arena (SCA) project. The cost of the project was not insignificant—and it continued to rise. Originally projected to cost $564 million, at groundbreaking the price tag stood at $850 million. Seattle sports fans were thrilled with the project. The city of Seattle had been without a winter sports team since 2008 when the Seattle SuperSonics, a National Basketball ...Starting at €8.20
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Cypress Semiconductor: A Federation of Entrepreneurs
O'Reilly, CCase SGSB-OB84-EInnovation and ChangeIn 2011, Cypress Semiconductor was doing well. Their 2010 revenues had grown 32 percent to $884 million, and coupled with diligent cost reduction efforts, their profits before taxes were up nearly 23 percent. In the preceding two years Cypress had eliminated its debt and built up a large cash position. But the semiconductor business was a brutal one demanding both continual cost reductions and innovation. Cypress was a comparatively small playe...Starting at €8.20
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DaVita: A Community First, A Company Secong
O'Reilly, C; Pfeffer, J; Hoyt, D; Drabkin, DCase SGSB-OB89-EInnovation and ChangeThis case describes the challenges facing CEO Kent Thiry and DaVita as they being thinking about how to integrate a recent acquisition, Health Care Partners (HCP). DaVita had been primarily a kidney dialysis company with a very strong culture built around teamwork, fun, continuous improvement, accountability, and service. The senior management saw DaVita as “a community first and a company second.” HCP was an integrated health care provider wi...Starting at €8.20
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DaVita: A Community First, A Company Secong (Portguese)
O'Reilly, C; Pfeffer, J; Hoyt, D; Drabkin, DCase SGSB-OB89-PPLeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the challenges facing CEO Kent Thiry and DaVita while thinking about how to integrate a recent acquisition, Health Care Partners (HCP). DaVita had been primarily a renal dialysis company with a very strong culture based on teamwork, fun, continuous improvement, responsibility and service. Senior management saw DaVita as "a community first and a company second." HCP was an integrated health care provider with a workforce substa...Starting at €8.20
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Innovium 2018
Barnett, William; Salama, Morgan; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SM306-EStrategyInnovium has been focusing on disrupting an entrenched space . After getting product market fit the company wrestles with how to scale up, how to build a strong culture and how to raise more funds.Starting at €8.20
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The Rise of Mercado Libre
Barnett, William; Johnson, Christy; Mekikian, GaryCase SGSB-IB109 Spanish VersionFinanceMarcos Galperin, a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business, founded Mercado Libre in 1999 with a vision to build an e-commerce company focused on serving the nascent but fast- growing Spanish and Portuguese-speaking markets in Latin America. In the spirit of a Silicon Valley start-up, the company was started in a garage in Buenos Aires. By 2006, Mercado Libre hosted the largest online trading platform in Latin America. Just prior to th...Starting at €8.20
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Google.org
Arrillaga-Andreessen, Laura; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SM351-EStrategyThis case highlights how corporate philanthropies are distinct from other philanthropic institutions in terms of motivations, incentives and giving models. The case focuses on how Google.org leverages their assets to support the missions and initiatives of the organizations they fund. It also aims to explore how the team at Google.org thinks about the tradeoffs and challenges of aligning the company’s business strategy with their social justice ...Starting at €8.20
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The Competitive Advantage of Netflix
Feinberg, Yossi; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SM268-EStrategyIn 1997 Reed Hastings founded Netflix on the heels of a $750 million exit of his first venture—a software company. The premise was simple: Hastings believed that he could leverage the high-performance culture and data-drivenness embodied by tech companies to succeed in the DVD-rental-by mail business. Within a decade Netflix was bringing in more than a $1 billion in revenue a year and revered as one of the most innovative companies in Silicon Va...Starting at €8.20