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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A212TN-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €0.00
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MobiChair - Teaching Note
H. Irving Grousbeck, Sara RosenthalTeaching Note SGSB-E491TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe MobiChair case describes the story of Lucy Ahn and Josh McKinnon, graduates of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business who are also in a relationship, who take on the role of co-CEOs of a power wheelchair company after being offered the position by a mentor who is on the company’s board. MobiChair is facing stalled growth and the board hopes to revive the company with new leadership. Though hesitant at first, the couple decides to take on th...Starting at €0.00
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NetApp: The Day-toDay of a DM - Teaching Note
Mark Leslie, Patrick ArippolTeaching Note SGSB-E263TN-EEntrepreneurshipSet in mid-2002, this case illustrates “a day in the life” of a district sales manager of a Silicon Valley company, as the technology market faced a downturn. The case enables a polarized class discussion about the tradeoffs that a new district manager might make relative to hiring / firing and setting quotas, after inheriting a mixed bag of talent in an underperforming district. It also seeks to provide with additional texture about the types of...Starting at €0.00
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Tim Harkness: Starting Over - Teaching Note
Robert Siegel, Jessica MorganTeaching Note SGSB-E564TN-EEntrepreneurshipThis case profiles the journey of protagonist Tim Harkness through his many entrepreneurial pursuits. It chronicles his early career and how a bout of serendipity landed him a job in the life sciences tools industry. From there, Harkness went on to lead another life sciences tools company, and transformed the company from an under-performing venture-backed start-up to a profitable multi-product firm. After four acquisitions, a failed sales p...Starting at €0.00
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Teaching Note for Bxo: From Seed to IPO
Chess, Robert; Lehman, CameronTeaching Note SGSB-SM-296TN-EStrategyDylan Smith, Co-Founder and CFO of Box, describes the various stages of founding the enterprise digital document and data storage company. At each financial raise, beginning with the very earliest family-and-friend money all the way through IPO, Smith describes the options and the thought process that went into each decision.Starting at €0.00
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KiOR: The Quest for Cellulosic Biofuels - Teaching Note
Reichelstein, S; Rosenthal, S; Sahoo, ATeaching Note SGSB-E427TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2012, KiOR was in the process of starting biofuels production at its first plant in Columbus, Mississippi. This initial plant was to provide a commercial scale proof-of-concept of KiOR’s production technology, and the company expected to build another set of plants in Natchez, MS using “copy exact” principles. These latter plants would be three times the size of the Columbus plants, and KiOR anticipated a number of improvements in its produc...Starting at €0.00
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Refresh Organics Board of Directors: Three Vignettes - Teaching Note
Child, M; Chamberd, J; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E432TN-EEntrepreneurshipGeorge Hausman, co-founder and CEO of Pleasanton, California-based Refresh Organics (fictional), was proud of the business he had built over the past 15 years. Along with a minority partner, Hausman had started Refresh as a distributor of organic produce sourced throughout California. The business had grown steadily, if not explosively, and was now a distributor for organic farms throughout the United States. Refresh’s distribution revenues were ...Starting at €0.00
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Sociable Labs (A) - (C) - Teaching note
Siegelman, RL; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E435A-CTN-EEntrepreneurshipSociable Labs was conceived as a start-up business attempting to use friend recommendations to curate and recommend purchase opportunities on the internet. Much as his Facebook social events app helped friends discover events based on their friends’ events, founder Nisan Gabbay wanted to show users what their friends were buying or “liking,” in the hope that such knowledge would help guide their purchases and even enable merchants to use Facebook...Starting at €0.00
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Huntington University - Teaching note
Grousbeck, I; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E439TN-EEntrepreneurshipHuntington University was a distinguished not-for-profit academic institution in the United States whose endowment grew from $7 billion to nearly $20 billion over the course of a decade. The funds prompted a variety of development projects. New funds, new buildings, and new programs brought with them new people, and Huntington was in a period of growth and change on all fronts.Starting at €0.00
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Vestige Capital - Teaching Note
Kelly, P, B; Wismer, LTeaching Note SGSB-E450TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe Vestige Capital case follows a search fund team comprised of two 2009 Stanford GSB alumni as they decide to raise a search fund in Mexico, procure search capital from U.S. and Mexican investors, and source deals over the ensuing two years. The case chronicles the difficulties the team faced during their search, including the departure of one partner from the firm and several near misses with acquisition. At the end of the case, the reader ...Starting at €0.00