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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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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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MobiVi: Establishing Credit Lending, Micro Donations, and Allied Services in Vietnam Using Telecom Technologies
Lee, H; Tang, C; Masood, JCase SGSB-GS82-EService and Operations ManagementIn 1984, Trung Dung fled political persecution in Vietnam, the country of his birth, to arrive in the United States as a refugee with only $2 in his pocket. Over the next two decades, he proved his mettle as one of the most astute and successful Vietnamese-American entrepreneurs. Although Dung had never thought that he would return to Vietnam, the instinctive entrepreneur inside him recognized the opportunities presented by country’s rapidly de...Starting at €8.20
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Experian MicroAnalytics: Accelerating the Development of Monile Financial Services in Developing Markets
Lee, H; Tang, CCase SGSB-GS83-EService and Operations ManagementAs the world population exceeded 7 billion by the end of 2011, various agencies working to alleviate poverty had come to a general consensus that pure charity was not a sustainable solution. In the absence of venture capital and angel investors in developing markets, Microfinance (MF) was one of the most promising tools in the fight against poverty. MF institutions tended to focus on micro-lending, providing small loans to micro-entrepreneurs fro...Starting at €8.20