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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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EarthEnable (A)
Hattendorf, Laura; Seibert, PeterCase SGSB-E640A-EEntrepreneurshipThe EarthEnable case focuses on the challenges a social enterprise can face as it grows from a business plan in the classroom to a fully-fledged enterprise. Particular focus is placed on marketing strategy, sales strategy, and refining the business model.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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EarthEnable (B)
Hattendorf, Laura; Seibert, PeterCase SGSB-E640B-EEntrepreneurshipThe EarthEnable case focuses on the challenges a social enterprise can face as it grows from a business plan in the classroom to a fully-fledged enterprise. Particular focus is placed on marketing strategy, sales strategy, and refining the business model.Starting at €5.74