Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Eric Edelson and Fireclay Tile: An Unusual Path to Entrepreneurship
Chambers, J; Luther, JCase SGSB-E490-EEntrepreneurshipIt was February 2009, when Eric Edelson wondered to himself how he had gotten into this situation. Less than two years earlier, Edelson had been an MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business ready to market a footwear product to the elderly. Since then, he had been unemployed, fired from his first job, and had acted as an underpaid consultant for a series of small and struggling companies. At present, Edelson was an operator at Firec...Starting at €8.20
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Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayCase SGSB-SI124-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2010, Cari Tuna quit her job at the Wall Street Journal to work full-time on developing a giving strategy for herself and her husband—Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In May 2011, the couple created the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures. Tuna made transparency and knowledge sharing core components of the foundation; creating a blog to report on the foundation’s activities and learnings. Good Ventures co-funded projects so that the...Starting at €8.20
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MobiChair - Teaching Note
H. Irving Grousbeck, Sara RosenthalTeaching Note SGSB-E491TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe MobiChair case describes the story of Lucy Ahn and Josh McKinnon, graduates of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business who are also in a relationship, who take on the role of co-CEOs of a power wheelchair company after being offered the position by a mentor who is on the company’s board. MobiChair is facing stalled growth and the board hopes to revive the company with new leadership. Though hesitant at first, the couple decides to take on th...Starting at €0.00
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Palantir Philanthropy Engineering: Software to Improve Lives
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayCase SGSB-SI125-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeBy 2014, Palantir Technologies, a fast growing Silicon Valley company with global impact at the heart of its mission, had spent several years donating the same software to nonprofits that it sold to commercial customers to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. It had consolidated these philanthropic activities in 2011, when Jason Payne, a long-time software engineer at the company, made an internal transition to found the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Bigpoint
Child, M; Chambers, J; Ellis, H; Han, ACase SGSB-E423-EEntrepreneurshipBigpoint was a leading online gaming company with vast international operations. One country that it wanted to enter was the United States, where existing players EA and Zynga, as well as dominant social gaming platforms and the Apple App Store posed considerable challenges. It also needed to restructure its top management to better manage its growth.Starting at €8.20
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TwinMed
Child, M; Chambers, J; Han, ACase SGSB-E419-EEntrepreneurshipTwinMed was a nursing home supply business located in Los Angeles. This case details its humble origins and its development, and raises several strategic issues prevalent in Medicare-reimbursed businesses, business-to-business selling, and what to do when there is a sea change in government billing as there was in 1999, with the advent of Medicare’s “PPS” model.Starting at €8.20
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Bigpoint - Teaching note
Child, M; Chambers, J; Ellis, H; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E423TN-EEntrepreneurshipBigpoint was a leading online gaming company with vast international operations. One country that it wanted to enter was the United States, where existing players EA and Zynga, as well as dominant social gaming platforms and the Apple App Store posed considerable challenges. It also needed to restructure its top management to better manage its growth.Starting at €0.00
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Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions - Teaching Note
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayTeaching Note SGSB-SI124TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2010, Cari Tuna quit her job at the Wall Street Journal to work full-time on developing a giving strategy for herself and her husband—Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In May 2011, the couple created the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures. Tuna made transparency and knowledge sharing core components of the foundation; creating a blog to report on the foundation’s activities and learnings. Good Ventures co-funded projects so that the...Starting at €0.00
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MobiChair
H. Irving Grousbeck, Sara RosenthalCase SGSB-E491-EEntrepreneurshipThe MobiChair case describes the story of Lucy Ahn and Josh McKinnon, graduates of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business who are also in a relationship, who take on the role of co-CEOs of a power wheelchair company after being offered the position by a mentor who is on the company’s board. MobiChair is facing stalled growth and the board hopes to revive the company with new leadership. Though hesitant at first, the couple decides to take on th...Starting at €8.20
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Palantir Philanthropy Engineering: Software to Improve Lives - Teaching Note
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayTeaching Note SGSB-SI125TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeBy 2014, Palantir Technologies, a fast growing Silicon Valley company with global impact at the heart of its mission, had spent several years donating the same software to nonprofits that it sold to commercial customers to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. It had consolidated these philanthropic activities in 2011, when Jason Payne, a long-time software engineer at the company, made an internal transition to found the compan...Starting at €0.00