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Boston Consulting Group, The - Addendum to strategy consulting in Europe, 1997
Rodríguez-Llauder, María Dolores; Bølset, N.; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1268-EStrategyBrief description of the profile of this strategy consulting company, covering the following aspects: historical developments, current position in the industry, basic strategic choices, basic organizational design, performance measures and current company challenges. Intended to be used as a complementary material to the industry case DG-1194-E Strategy consulting in Europe - 1997.Starting at €8.20
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Pay Television in Europe -1996
McDonough M.; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1166-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Gemstar-TV Guide International
McNichols, M; Blair, NCase SGSB-A208-EAccounting and ControlNormally, serving on a company's board of directors is not a full-time job, but in the summer of 2002, Nick Donatiello (GSB 1986) found himself in exactly that position. As a member of Gemstar-TV Guide International's (Gemstar's or the Company's) board of directors and its Audit Committee, Donatiello was caught up in a storm of accounting issues, shareholder lawsuits and a power struggle between the Company's largest shareholders. Donatiello, one...Starting at €8.20
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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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miraclefeet.org: Fundraising and Financial Sustainability - Teaching note
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JTeaching Note SGSB-SI135TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn the summer of 2015, after reporting another year of strong growth in programming and fundraising at miraclefeet.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing treatment to children born with clubfoot in developing countries, co-founder and executive director Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld (MBA ’92) found herself wanting to do more. While miraclefeet had reported record numbers in each year since its 2010 founding, she knew that she had the capacity to no...Starting at €0.00
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La televisión de pago en Europa -1996
McDonough M.; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1166StrategyThis case is used to discuss industry evolution as well as the relative competitive position and business strategies of different players (the French Canal Plus, the Brithish BSkyB, the two German Kirch and Bertelsmann and the Italian -Berlusconi's Fininvest). Topics at discussion are the role of alliances, investments in new technology pushing for standards, the upcoming of new services under the digital television, the need to fine-tune custome...Starting at €8.20
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Reach Capital: Porformance in Education Technology
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SI136-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn January 2015, Jennifer Carolan, who had served as the managing director of the NewSchools Venture Fund Seed Fund (“Seed Fund”), spun off from the nonprofit venture philanthropy firm to create a for-profit social impact fund focused on education technology (edtech). Through a unique joint venture with NewSchools Venture Fund (“NewSchools”) called NewSchools Capital, the new venture fund, Reach Capital, would allow Carolan to not only raise mor...Starting at €8.20
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Reach Capital: Porformance in Education Technology - Teaching note
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JTeaching Note SGSB-SI136TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn January 2015, Jennifer Carolan, who had served as the managing director of the NewSchools Venture Fund Seed Fund (“Seed Fund”), spun off from the nonprofit venture philanthropy firm to create a for-profit social impact fund focused on education technology (edtech). Through a unique joint venture with NewSchools Venture Fund (“NewSchools”) called NewSchools Capital, the new venture fund, Reach Capital, would allow Carolan to not only raise mor...Starting at €0.00
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miraclefeet.org: Fundraising and Financial Sustainability
McNichols, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SI135-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn the summer of 2015, after reporting another year of strong growth in programming and fundraising at miraclefeet.org, a nonprofit dedicated to providing treatment to children born with clubfoot in developing countries, co-founder and executive director Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld (MBA ’92) found herself wanting to do more. While miraclefeet had reported record numbers in each year since its 2010 founding, she knew that she had the capacity to no...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