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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Gokaldas Exports (A): The Challenge of Change
Bloom, N; Van, Reenen, J; Melvin, SCase SGSB-SM213A-EStrategyGokaldas Exports was a family-owned business founded in 1979 that had grown into India’s largest apparel exporter by the mid 2000s. Its founder, Jhamandas H. Hinduja, had bequeathed control of the company to three sons, each of whom brought in his own son. By the end of 2004, Gokaldas had 43 factories with 258 production lines scattered in and around the southern India city of Bangalore. It had more than 35,000 workers, which was nearly double ...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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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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Gokaldas Exports (B): Update
Bloom, N; Van, Reenen, J; Melvin, SCase SGSB-SM213B-EStrategyIn August 2007, the United States-based private equity firm the Blackstone Group acquired a 50.1 percent stake in Gokaldas Exports for $116 million. The investment was a two-part deal that included an “open offer” to Gokaldas shareholders for another 20 percent of outstanding shares valued at approximately $45 million. This gave Blackstone a total share of just over 68 percent while the Hinduja family retained 20 percent and other shareholders t...Starting at €5.74