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Intel NBI: MXP Digital Media Processor
Shih, Willy; Thurston, ThomasCase HBS-608100-EEntrepreneurship"Gila" was a high-performance image processor project housed in Intel's New Business Initiatives (NBI) group. NBI was an incubator for such corporate entrepreneurs, and it had an established methodology for ensuring a degree of autonomy while these ventures got started. But it faced many questions as the ventures grew and started to win their first customers. How should NBI handle the transition of the venture back to a mainstream division within...Starting at €8.20
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Chi Mei Optoelectronics
Shih, Willy; Yu, Howard; Shih, Chintay; Wang, Jyun-ChengCase HBS-608123-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a global leader in the relatively short span of ten years. Such organic diversification...Starting at €8.20
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Chi Mei Optoelectronics, Teaching Note
Shih, WillyTeaching Note HBS-609040-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [608-123].Starting at €0.00
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A Puma vs. Giants: The rise of David
Fruechtnicht M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1519-EStrategyAt the beginning of 2007 - for the first time in his 13 years at the helm of Puma - Jochen Zeitz was able to take a deep breath, reflect on the company's successful turnaround and, most importantly, contemplate the way ahead. After reinventing itself, creating a new market segment and demonstrating that the company could compete with its bigger brother Adidas, Puma was at a crossroads. It had become very profitable in the past decade and the stoc...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon Web Services
Huckman, Robert S.; Pisano, Gary P.; Kind, LizCase HBS-609048-EService and Operations ManagementConsiders the development of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a division of Amazon.com, Inc., specializing in the provision of web-based storage and computing services to web developers. The case focuses on the issues facing Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, in 2008 as AWS faces increased competition from established technology giants, such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM. Students are asked to consider whether entry into web services by Amazon, which had est...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon Web Services (Spanish version)
Huckman, Robert S.; Pisano, Gary P.; Kind, LizCase HBS-612S02Service and Operations ManagementConsiders the development of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a division of Amazon.com, Inc., specializing in the provision of web-based storage and computing services to web developers. The case focuses on the issues facing Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, in 2008 as AWS faces increased competition from established technology giants, such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM. Students are asked to consider whether entry into web services by Amazon, which had est...Starting at €8.20
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LPP Reserved: Growth Strategies of a Fashion Retailer in Central and Eastern Europe
Renart, Lluís G.Case M-1213-ECorporate GovernanceIn 1989 two Polish entrepreneurs set up a company to import clothing. From 1999 they began to open their own retail stores. In 2001 the company went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. By 2007 it had three fashion retail chains with a total of 345 stores, a turnover of nearly ¿400m and profits of about ¿40m. In March 2008 the management was looking at the issue of how to continue growing, and in particular whether or not to buy another Polish fa...Starting at €8.20
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Yamaha Corporation's Corporate Strategy
Bourgeois, L. J. III; Spreadbury, Andrew W.Case DARDEN-S-0139-EStrategyWith a far more diversified product range than any of its competitors in the electronic keyboard market, Yamaha had pursued a corporate strategy of diversification since World War II. The company had branched into the cutthroat competition of television, VCR, and audio-equipment production. With only its manufacturing-related capabilities supporting these businesses, Yamaha Corporation did not fare well with them because top executives were not a...Starting at €8.20
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Alibaba's Taobao (A) (Spanish version)
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Wulf, Julie M.Case HBS-714S01StrategyExamines the decision of Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once dominant eBay, the world's largest consumer marketplace. However, the company had little revenue because it offered services free of charge.Starting at €8.20
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Alibaba's Taobao (A)
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Wulf, Julie M.Case HBS-709456-EStrategyExamines the decision of Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once dominant eBay, the world's largest consumer marketplace. However, the company had little revenue because it offered services free of charge.Starting at €8.20