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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Lending Club: Part A
Siegel, R; Saucedo, MCase SGSB-E597-EEntrepreneurshipLending Club follows the path of founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche as he scales his successful P2P lending company both pre- and post-IPO. From debating with bankers on the proper valuation metrics for the company, to managing customer acquisition costs as the competitive landscape rapidly changes, the Lending Club case explores several key challenges that come with operating a fin-tech company at scale.Starting at €6.75
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EMco and SolarT (A)
Levine, PCase SGSB-E582A-EEntrepreneurshipThe EMco and SolarT case is presented in a series of four short vignettes involved two women, Carrie and Marguerite, who have a twenty-year friendship. Carrie, a venture capitalist, sits on the board of an energy management company called EMco. When EMco’s CEO reports that he is recruiting for a new VP of Sales, Carrie immediately introduces him to Marguerite, a seasoned sales executive. Marguerite soon joins EMco and the next three vignettes ...Starting at €6.75
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PayPal in 2017: Continuing to Reshape the Payments Landscape
Siegel, RCase SGSB-E572B-EEntrepreneurshipBetween 2013 and 2017 PayPal had grown from $8 billion to almost $11 billion in revenues and had a market cap of over $70 billion. In addition, the product and cultural transformations of the organization made the firm feel like an entirely new company from the one that existed several years prior. Outside of the company, major trends continued to impact PayPal: e-commerce conducted on mobile devices in the United States accounted for just under...Starting at €6.75
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Coley Andrews - Teaching note
Grousbekc, I; Rosenthal, STeaching Note SGSB-E567TN-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case E567Starting at €0.00
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Tenet Health
Chess, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E534-EEntrepreneurshipThis case focuses on major strategic challenges faced by Tenet Healthcare (Tenet), a U.S.-based health care provider, in 2014. It discusses major changes to the health care provider industry over the previous decade―customer, demographic, reimbursement, structural, technological, financing, and regulatory―and raises questions related to the strategic direction Tenet should pursue in response to these changes. The case emphasizes two primary dec...Starting at €6.75
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Eyewitness Survillance
Dodson, DCase SGSB-E523-EEntrepreneurshipThe Eyewitness Surveillance case tells the story of Rush Arnold and RT McCloy, friends who met while studying at Wharton, who raise a search fund under the name Channelstone Partners. In the fall of 2010, after having spent two-thirds of their search fund capital and reviewed over 200 companies, they came across Eyewitness Surveillance, a company specializing in the use of video technology to protect the assets of car dealerships. Eyewitness’ c...Starting at €6.75
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Axel Springer in 2014: Strategic Leadership of the Digital Media Transformation - Teaching Note
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Luther, JTeaching Note SGSB-E522TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2013, Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the publishing house Axel Springer SE, a premier source of content in Germany, with its popular newspapers and magazines such as Bild and Die Welt, was evaluating the progress of his company’s digital transformation. The advent of the digital revolution at the end of the twentieth century had caused an appreciable shift in the publishing industry. Traditional print media players were confronted with major techno...Starting at €0.00
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BillGuard - Teaching Note
Levav, J; Yin, LiTeaching Note SGSB-E513TN-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows Yaron Samid, founder of BillGuard, a personal finance web application that monitors users’ credit card transactions for fraudulent and unrecognizable charges. The case centers on Samid’s struggles to gain broad distribution. After trying several strategies including entering start-up competitions and selling directly to large American credit card issuers, Samid considers whether he should pivot and completely change BillGuard’s...Starting at €0.00
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BillGuard
Levav, J; Yin, LiCase SGSB-E513-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows Yaron Samid, founder of BillGuard, a personal finance web application that monitors users’ credit card transactions for fraudulent and unrecognizable charges. The case centers on Samid’s struggles to gain broad distribution. After trying several strategies including entering start-up competitions and selling directly to large American credit card issuers, Samid considers whether he should pivot and completely change BillGuard’s...Starting at €6.75
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Women in Venture Capital - Teaching Note
Glynn, J; Hsia, TTeaching Note SGSB-E509TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe case provides an overview and history of women in venture capital. The case examines the lack of funding that female entrepreneurs have had in the past. The case focuses on 4 women at venture capital firms: Sharon Wienbar (Scale VP), Joyce Chung (Garage Technology Venture Partners), Patricia Nakache (Trinity Ventures), and Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Venture).Starting at €0.00
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