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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Sunbeam Corporation: Board Member Assessing Earnings Quality (B)
McNichols, M; Callan, CCase SGSB-A189B-EAccounting and ControlIt was June 9, 1998, and Charles Elson, a law professor and Director on Sunbeam’s Board, had just left a distressing Elson and the other outside directors met with outside legal and public relations advisors on June 13, 1998. After discussion of the events, the outside directors voiced that they had lost faith in Dunlap. They contacted the other directors and then called Dunlap to tell him he was terminated. Because of his apparent failure in ...Starting at €5.74
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Tipping Point Community
Meehan, W; McNichols, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SI116-EInnovation and ChangeIn early 2016, Thomas Laffont, then-chairman of the board at Tipping Point Community, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, gathered with over two dozen fellow board members for a retreat to discuss, among other things, the future of the fast-growing organization. In the 11 years since its founding, Tipping Point had raised nearly $120 million and impacted the lives of more than 600,000 people in need. In 2016...Starting at €8.20
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Reach Capital: Porformance in Education Technology
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SI136-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 €8.20
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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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Invitrogen (A)
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209A-EStrategyFounded in 1987, Invitrogen was one of the largest catalog life science companies in the industry. Its customers came from academic research, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and government laboratories. Scientists viewed Invitrogen as a one-stop shop for all major molecular biology, biochemistry and cell culture reagent products, with prices ranging from a hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars.Starting at €8.20
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Invitrogen/Life Technologies (B)
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209B-EStrategyOn June 12, 2008, Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems announced plans to merge. The combined company was to be renamed Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE). Invitrogen offered to acquire Applied Biosystems for $6.7 billion in cash and stock. AB shareholders would receive $38 per share in cash and stock, representing a 17 percent premium over the share’s closing price on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.Starting at €5.74
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miraclefeet.org: Fundraising and Financial Sustainability
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SI135-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 €8.20
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Sunbeam Corporation: Board Member Assessing Earnings Quality (A)
McNichols, M; Callan, CCase SGSB-A189A-EAccounting and ControlIt was June 9It was June 9, 1998, and Charles Elson, a law professor and Director on Sunbeam?s Board, had just left a distressing board meeting. The board had met suddenly because, the previous day, Barron?s had published an article suggesting that Al Dunlap, CEO of Sunbeam, had been manufacturing earnings since he joined the company in July 1996. This disturbing article came shortly after other bad news. Two months earlier, on April 3, Sunbeam h...Starting at €8.20
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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
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Invitrogen/Life Technologies (C): The "Best Owner" of the Asset
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209C-EStrategyThis short case discusses the process of Life Technologies’ acquisition by Thermo Fisher in 2013 and 2014. The case is a complement to SM-209A and SM-209B, which highlight the various growth and acquisition strategies the company undertook over the previous 10 years.Starting at €5.74