This website uses technical, customisation and analytical cookies, both first-party and third-party, to anonymously facilitate browsing and analyse statistics on use of the website. Learn more
Search results
-
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
-
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
-
Private Media Group (A)
Mary M. Crossan; Jean-Philippe Vergne; Ken Mark; Jordan MitchellCase IVEY-9B15M025-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAn executive has just joined adult entertainment producer Private Media Group Inc. (PMG) as a strategy consultant. Despite being a highly controversial industry, adult entertainment has been credited with furthering the widespread adoption of major technologies such as the VCR, Internet and digital transmissions over hand-held devices.In preparing for his first meeting with PMG’s president, the executive wonders if he should recommend pursuing la...Starting at €8.20
-
Invitrogen/Life Technologies (B)
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Lee, RCase SGSB-SM209B-EStrategyOn June 12, 2008, Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems announced plans to merge. The combined company was to be renamed Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE). Invitrogen offered to acquire Applied Biosystems for $6.7 billion in cash and stock. AB shareholders would receive $38 per share in cash and stock, representing a 17 percent premium over the share’s closing price on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.Starting at €5.74
-
Flibe Energy: Pursuing a Safe, Affordable, and Sustainable Energy Future
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Nolan, SCase SGSB-SM208-EStrategyFlibe Energy is a startup in the nuclear power space seeking to find a safe way to enable nuclear energy using a technology previously dismissed by the US government since it could not be used for making material for nuclear weapons. The founders believe they have found a way to create safe, clean energy using a proven but forgotten technology. The challenges are steep, however, as proof of the technology will require hundreds of millions of doll...Starting at €8.20
-
Waste Management's Organic Growth Group
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Uribe, TCase SGSB-SM210-EStrategyIt was 2005 and David Steiner, CEO of Waste Management (WM), had just received a report from an internal advisory panel created some months before to assess the future of the waste management industry and propose how the company’s strategy should be adapted. The core of this report was the recommendation to create a special unit within the company, chartered with the central purpose of identifying ways to extract value from waste through new and ...Starting at €8.20
-
Minted in 2014: Scaling and Scoping a Crowdsourcing Design Business
Burgelman, R; Siegel, R; Kuyel, SCase SGSB-E530-EEntrepreneurshipMariam Naficy (Minted CEO) and Melissa Kim (Minted COO) have grown the company to become a leader in the online printed cards, independent design and art market segments. As the business has continued to scale they wrestle with simultaneously growing their existing business while also looking at expanding into new markets, all the while keeping their existing customer base engaged. The case highlights the difficult decisions management faces in d...Starting at €8.20
-
OWNI: Disrupting the French Media Landscape
Jean-Philippe Vergne; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B13M117-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOWNI was founded in April 2009 as a copyright-free online news and image distribution firm. As part of a web agency that developed web content and graphics for French companies, it insisted that all content produced could be made freely available to others under the Creative Commons licence. OWNI delivered hard-hitting news, sourced in the beginning mostly from bloggers and later supplemented by a team of investigative journalists. Set up to chal...Starting at €8.20
-
Minted in 2017: Designing a Profitable Brand
Siegel, R; Kuyel, SCase SGSB-SM275-EStrategyMariam Naficy (Minted CEO) and Melissa Kim (Minted COO) have grown the company to become a leader in the online printed cards, independent design and art market segments. As the business has continued to scale they wrestle with simultaneously growing their existing business while also looking at expanding into new markets, all the while keeping their existing customer base engaged. The case highlights the difficult decisions management faces in d...Starting at €8.20
-
Bitcoin
Jean-Philippe Vergne; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B14M104-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBitcoin is part of a new wave of financial technology – or fintech – innovations. These innovations are disrupting the technical, highly regulated financial industry that has been dominated by large banks and other financial institutions.After three years of trading in relative obscurity, the emergence of bitcoin in 2013 as a viable cryptocurrency is promising both to open up new possibilities to entrepreneurs and incumbent firms and to pose chal...Starting at €8.20