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Amazon Alexa and Patient Engagement
Wood, Stacy; Schulman, KevinCase SGSB-SM328-EStrategyThe Palo Alto Health System had three hospitals, 1,600 physicians, and over 1 million patients each year - and a new risk-based model that incentivized the prevention of illness, as well as early intervention in patients with chronic illness. Engaging with patient populations involved clinical interventions, but also involved a marketing approach to encourage patients to adopt health behaviors and keep following those practices. This case study...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix and the State of Streaming Video in 2011
Feinberg, Yossi; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SM267-EStrategyIn 2010, only 16 percent of Americans were streaming movies and television shows online. By the end of 2011 that number would almost double, and the entertainment industry began barreling towards a digital future. This case follows Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO through the year 2011 as they launched and improved their streaming video capabilities. Though Netflix had historically been the most popular player in the streaming video market, Hulu, A...Starting at €8.20
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Beef in Brazil: Shrinking Deforestation While Growing the Industry
Lee, H; Rammohan, SCase SGSB-GS88-EService and Operations ManagementIn June 2009, Greenpeace accused the cattle industry of contributing to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Big brands that bought beef and leather were named as silent partners to the practice. Pressure from Greenpeace and the Brazilian government led to major changes. Meatpackers Bertin, JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva, responsible for one-third of exports, agreed to stop purchasing directly and indirectly from ranches that cleared more forest tha...Starting at €8.20
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Mercado Libre
Barnett W; Mekikian GCase SGSB-IB105-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAs 2013 approached, Marcos Galperin and his team of MercadoLibre top executives were meeting to celebrate the breathtaking growth of their company, and contemplate the challenges ahead. Since starting the company with his Stanford Business School classmates in 1999, Marcos had transformed the company from an internet auction site akin to eBay, to Latin America’s leading online marketplace unique in its own right, and on par with Amazon. The Merca...Starting at €8.20
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Target: Creating a Data-Driven Product Management Organization
Siegel, Robert; Kingbo, DavidCase SGSB-SM308-EStrategyAs retail shopping has changed with the rise of e-commerce, Target Corporate, one of the largest retail stores in the United States, made the strategic decision to invest in developing a core data science and technology team to remain competitive in its physical and online shopping experiences. The company hired a team of technologists who initially worked at enhancing the company’s digital and mobile solutions, but soon began influencing the com...Starting at €8.20
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Target: Creating a Data-Driven Product Management Organization
Siegel, Robert; Kingbo, DavidCase SGSB-SM308 Spanish VersionStrategyAs retail shopping has changed with the rise of e-commerce, Target Corporate, one of the largest retail stores in the United States, made the strategic decision to invest in developing a core data science and technology team to remain competitive in its physical and online shopping experiences. The company hired a team of technologists who initially worked at enhancing the company’s digital and mobile solutions, but soon began influencing the com...Starting at €8.20
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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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Mercado Libre (Spanish Version)
Barnett, William; Mekikian, GaryCase SGSB-IB105SPMarketingA medida que se acercaba 2013, Marcos Galperin y su equipo de altos ejecutivos de MercadoLibre se reunieron para celebrar el impresionante crecimiento de su empresa y contemplar los desafíos que se avecinan. Desde que comenzó la compañía con sus compañeros de clase de la Stanford Business School en 1999, Marcos había transformado la compañía de un sitio de subastas en Internet similar a eBay, al mercado en línea líder de América Latina único por ...Starting at €8.20
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Verily Life Sciences and Machine Learning
Schulman, Kevin A; Ho, KevinCase SGSB-SM335-EStrategyVerily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships with academic research institutions, legacy life sciences companies, and hospitals and health systems to develop tools to collect and organize health data, with the goal of creating platforms that utilized the insights from that data to enhance patient care. The case study discusses these...Starting at €8.20
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Global Climate Coorperation and Conflict: Brazil and the Paris Agreement
Clark, Richard; Gaikwad, Nikhar; Scheve, KennethCase SGSB-P98-EEconomicsIt is March 2019, and Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s newly elected president, is deciding what to do about Brazil’s participation in the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change. Bolsonaro must weigh the economic and political costs and benefits of taking drastic action to curb environmentalism and environmental protections in Brazil. Exiting from the Paris Agreement would provide far greater freedom to reboot Brazil’s economy, which is one of Bolsonaro’...Starting at €8.20