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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Charles Schwab Corp. in 2017
Siegel, R; Makinen, JCase SGSB-SM282-EStrategyBy almost any measure, Charles Schwab Corp. appeared to be killing it in 2017. The wealth management, banking, custody and brokerage firm’s stock was trading near its all-time high. It was posting unprecedented levels of new client accounts, net new client assets, revenues and profits and had a record $3.12 trillion in client assets under management. Schwab was taking customers and assets from old-line wire houses like Morgan Stanley, while fendi...Starting at €8.20
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Clover (A)
Leslie, M; Speiser, M; Makinen, JCase SGSB-SM283A-EStrategyClover Network’s founders didn’t see the curveball coming at the end of 2012. The two-year-old start-up had just nine employees. It had dumped its first business idea, pivoted from its second, and was working hard on a new product: a tablet-based cash register with built-in credit card processing. Large credit card payment processing companies had started noticing Clover and one had just agreed to pre-order $2 million of Clover hardware. It wa...Starting at €8.20
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Clover (A) - (B) - Teaching note
Leslie, M; Speiser, M; Makinen, JTeaching Note SGSB-SM283TN-EStrategyClover Network’s founders didn’t see the curveball coming at the end of 2012. The two-year-old start-up had just nine employees. It had dumped its first business idea, pivoted from its second, and was working hard on a new product: a tablet-based cash register with built-in credit card processing. Large credit card payment processing companies had started noticing Clover and one had just agreed to pre-order $2 million of Clover hardware. It wa...Starting at €0.00
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Charles Schwab Corp. in 2017 - Teaching note
Siegel, R; Makinen, JTeaching Note SGSB-SM282TN-EStrategyBy almost any measure, Charles Schwab Corp. appeared to be killing it in 2017. The wealth management, banking, custody and brokerage firm’s stock was trading near its all-time high. It was posting unprecedented levels of new client accounts, net new client assets, revenues and profits and had a record $3.12 trillion in client assets under management. Schwab was taking customers and assets from old-line wire houses like Morgan Stanley, while fendi...Starting at €0.00
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Clover (B)
Leslie, M; Speiser, M; Makinen, JCase SGSB-SM283B-EStrategyClover Network’s founders didn’t see the curveball coming at the end of 2012. The two-year-old start-up had just nine employees. It had dumped its first business idea, pivoted from its second, and was working hard on a new product: a tablet-based cash register with built-in credit card processing. Large credit card payment processing companies had started noticing Clover and one had just agreed to pre-order $2 million of Clover hardware. It wa...Starting at €5.74
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Evolving Kiva's Impact: Introduction of Kiva Labs and Kiva Zip
Russell Siegelman, Sabrina ManvilleCase SGSB-E517-EEntrepreneurshipKiva.org was a website through which individuals could connect with opportunities to alleviate poverty via small-scale lending. Founded in 2005, the platform had grown impressively and had facilitated over $500m in loans by 2014. The scale Kiva had achieved was facilitated by its partnerships with microfinance institutions, which managed all of the lending operations for loans made by visitors to the Kiva site. Kiva’s team had diverse views of im...Starting at €8.20