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Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corp. (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-605S01StrategyFocuses on the difficulty established companies face when confronted with disruptive technological innovations. The power that their prior asset investments, their cost structures, and their customers have in constraining their investment and innovation decisions are clearly illustrated. Rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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BMG Entertainment (Spanish version)
Rivkin, Jan W.; Meier, GerritCase HBS-704S03StrategyThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. As dramatic changes in technology and customer tastes roil the music industry, the top executives of BMG Entertainment, one of the world's largest record companies, must decide how to organize for digital distribution of music....Starting at €8.20
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Marketing i-mode (Spanish version)
Moon, YoungmeCase HBS-504S02Marketingi-mode is a wireless Internet service offered in Japan by NTT DoCoMo. In just three years, the service has won over 30 million subscribers and achieved a 60% share of Japan's mobile Internet market, making it the most successful mobile data service in the world. It is now early 2002 and Keiichi Enoki, managing director of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service, faces two challenges. On the domestic front, i-mode must fend off two strong competitors while ma...Starting at €8.20
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Intermountain Health Care (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Edmondson, Amy C.; Feldman, Laura R.Case HBS-604S16Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making and the care process itself, with the aim of boosting physician productivity and improving care quality, while saving money. This case explores the challenges facing Brent James, e...Starting at €8.20
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Empire Strikes Back: Counterrevolutionary Strategies for Industry Leaders (Spanish version)
D'Aveni, Richard A.Article HBS-R0211DStrategyIndustry leaders frequently worry that their companies will fall victim to some revolutionary business model or disruptive technology. But new research shows that it's strategically better for incumbents to counter a revolution than to ignore or fully embrace it. Successful incumbents rely on one or more of five approaches to restrain, modify or, if necessary, neutralize a revolutionary threat. A company that perceives a revolution in its earlies...Starting at €8.20
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How to Identify Your Enemies Before They Destroy You (Spanish version)
Rafii, Farshad; Kampas, Paul J.Article HBS-R0211JStrategyWe've all heard the stories about corporate giants who ignored disruptive innovations and paid a steep price. Most of the nascent technologies that typically bombard executives will not amount to competitive threats and deserve to be ignored. As a result, disruptions are usually not taken seriously until they become obvious--when it's often too late. A disruptive innovation is a technology, product, or process that creeps up from below an existin...Starting at €8.20
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Kodak (A) (Spanish version)
Gavetti, Giovanni; Henderson, Rebecca M.; Giorgi, SimonaCase HBS-716S20StrategyThe introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in the new landscape, the case questions how CEO Daniel Carp can use digital imaging to revitalize Kodak.Starting at €8.20
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Ambidextrous Organization (Spanish version)
Tushman, Michael L.; O'Reilly, Charles A.Article HBS-R0404DStrategyCorporate executives must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act is one of the toughest of all managerial challenges, and it's no surprise that few companies do it well. But as every businessperson knows, there are companies that do. What's their secret? These organizations separate their new, exp...Starting at €8.20
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Microsoft in 2004
Rukstad, Michael G.; Yoffie, David B.; Delacey, Brian J.; Freier, DebbieCase HBS-704508-EStrategySurveys Microsoft's expansion into new businesses, such as mobile and embedded devices, home and entertainment, and business solutions, as it faces challenges due to size and maturity and outside threats from Linux and Google. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Innovating Within Established Enterprises (Spanish version)
Moore, Geoffrey A.Article HBS-R0407FStrategyAs commercial processes commoditize in a developed economy, they are outsourced or transferred offshore, leaving onshore companies with unrelenting, Darwinian pressure to come up with the next wave of innovation. But "innovation" is a broad term. There are many types, from the ballyhooed disruptive innovation to more mundane forms such as process and experiential, which might involve, respectively, doing such things as streamlining the supply cha...Starting at €8.20