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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Reach Capital: Porformance in Education Technology - Teaching note
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JTeaching Note SGSB-SI136TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn January 2015, Jennifer Carolan, who had served as the managing director of the NewSchools Venture Fund Seed Fund (“Seed Fund”), spun off from the nonprofit venture philanthropy firm to create a for-profit social impact fund focused on education technology (edtech). Through a unique joint venture with NewSchools Venture Fund (“NewSchools”) called NewSchools Capital, the new venture fund, Reach Capital, would allow Carolan to not only raise mor...Starting at €0.00
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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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Beneficial State Bank (B): Evaluating Financial and Social Returns for Investors - Teaching Note
Charles Ewald, Heidi Krauel, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-SI39BTN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn the fall of 2015, Beneficial State Bank was set to mark its third successive year of normalized profitability while continuing to fulfill its mission to promote social justice and environmental sustainability. At the same time, husband and wife creators of the bank, Tom Steyer (MBA ’83) and Kat Taylor (JD/MBA ’86), found themselves at a crossroads. As the sole providers of capital to the bank during formation and, as a result of the bank’s u...Starting at €0.00
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Nonprofit Business Models and Financial Statement Relationships (B) - Teaching note
McNichols, Maureen; Foroughi; JaclynTeaching Note SGSB-SI137BTN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThorough analysis of various nonprofit business models requires an understanding of each 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 balance sheet, income, and cash flow statements for eight nonprofit firms in the U.S. for the 2018 or 2019 fiscal year (compiled from either audited financi...Starting at €0.00
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The Rockefeller Foundation: Innovation in Social Finance - Teaching note
Arrillaga-Andreessen, L; Murray, STeaching Note SGSB-SI142TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeWhen Judith Rodin became president of The Rockefeller Foundation in 2005, she identified a pressing need to re-organize the foundation to meet the challenges in an increasingly complex world. Rodin also recognized that for philanthropy to make meaningful progress in solving the world’s biggest problems, it could not act alone. Innovation at Rockefeller: Innovation at Rockefeller dates back to its earliest years, when the foundation funded innova...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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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
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Nonprofit Business Models and Financial Statement Relationships (A) - Teaching note
McNichols, Maureen; Foroughi; JaclynTeaching Note SGSB-SI137ATN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThorough analysis of various nonprofit business models requires an understanding of each 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 balance sheet, income, and cash flow statements for eight nonprofit firms in the U.S. for the 2018 or 2019 fiscal year (compiled from either audited financi...Starting at €0.00
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miraclefeet.org: Fundraising and Financial Sustainability - Teaching note
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JTeaching Note SGSB-SI135TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn the summer of 2015, after reporting another year of strong growth in programming and fundraising at miraclefeet.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing treatment to children born with clubfoot in developing countries, co-founder and executive director Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld (MBA ’92) found herself wanting to do more. While miraclefeet had reported record numbers in each year since its 2010 founding, she knew that she had the capacity to no...Starting at €0.00