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Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Weiss, Mitchell B.Article HBS-R1607Z-EStrategyLumiscape, a manufacturer of high-tech streetlights, has recently decided to switch from a direct sale business model to a subscription service, in which customers would get installation, maintenance, and monitoring software bundled with the product. Part of the reasoning is that customers haven't been extracting all the potential value in their streetlights. Now a customer wants to hugely increase its order--but through a direct sale. With comme...Starting at €8.20
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Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (B)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Pyshkov, AlexanderCase DARDEN-QA-0855-EDecision AnalysisTimm Veizenburg is an entrepreneur who is reviving his family’s tradition of dress-shirt making. He realizes that an issue that initially looked like a markdown management problem may, in fact, be rooted in procurement. Operating in the modern data-rich environment, Timm asks an associate to prepare data about one product line, and together they examine the company’s current procurement practice, where the production is outsourced to supply chain...Starting at €5.74
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Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Pyshkov, AlexanderCase DARDEN-QA-0854-EDecision AnalysisTimm Veizenburg is an entrepreneur who is reviving his family’s tradition of dress-shirt making. He realizes that an issue that initially looked like a markdown management problem may, in fact, be rooted in procurement. Operating in the modern data-rich environment, Timm asks an associate to prepare data about one product line, and together they examine the company’s current procurement practice, where the production is outsourced to supply chain...Starting at €8.20
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MTN and the Nigerian Fine
Albert Wöcke; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B17M031-EStrategyIn late 2015, South African telecommunications giant MTN was fined US$5.2 billion by the Nigerian authorities for a mass of improperly registered subscribers—the largest fine of its kind ever imposed in the industry anywhere in the world. MTN was an emerging-market multinational corporation with a track record of successfully operating in some of the toughest, riskiest emerging markets. Thus, it was surprising that MTN had been unable to avoid a ...Starting at €8.20
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Talent Management and the Dual-Career Couple
Petriglieri, JenniferArticle HBS-R1803H-ECompanies invest heavily in grooming star talent for leadership--but most of them haven't figured out how to manage the growing population of employees who care deeply about their partners' or spouses' careers at the same time that they want to advance their own. As a result, many high potentials are heading for the nearest exit. The author has seen this happen again and again in her research on dual-career couples in tech, health care, professio...Starting at €8.20
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How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
Frick, WalterArticle HBS-R1903F-EEconomicsAccording to an analysis led by Ranjay Gulati, during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000, 17% of the 4,700 public companies studied fared very badly: They went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired. But just as striking, 9% of the companies flourished, outperforming competitors by at least 10% in sales and profits growth. A more recent analysis by Bain using data from the Great Recession reinforced that finding, showing that the top 10% of...Starting at €8.20
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Nate Chooses a Business Entity
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-F-1795-EFinanceThis case follows Nate Jamison as he determines which business entity to form for his growing City Moving Company (City Moving) in Washington, DC. From the start, Jamison operated City Moving as a sole proprietorship while he bootstrapped the business. Eventually he was able to get his own truck and hire two steady employees, and the three hope to formalize a business partnership to expand City Moving so that all three men can lead their own movi...Starting at €8.20
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AGC Inc. in 2019: "Your Dreams, Our Challenge"
Kato, Masanori; Schaede, Ulrike; O'Reilly, CharlesCase SGSB-OB103-ELeadership and People ManagementAsahi Glass Co., Ltd. in 2014 was the world’s largest glass company, but the company faced flat revenues and increased global competition. Several of its flagship businesses projected few prospects for growth unless the company could develop new products and identify competitive strengths to compete within the rapidly changing global economy. AGC held leading global market shares in four major products: architectural glass, automotive glass, quar...Starting at €8.20
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Rethinking the On-Demand Workforce
Fuller, Joseph B.; Raman, Manjari; Bailey, Allison; Vaduganathan, NithyaArticle HBS-R2006G-ELeadership and People ManagementAs companies struggle with chronic skills shortages and changing labor demographics, a new generation of talent platforms, offering on-demand access to highly trained workers, has begun to help. These platforms include marketplaces for premium expertise (Starting at €8.20
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Managing supply chains in a world that is no longer flat
Moscoso, PhilipArticle 75265Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementDeglobalization and digitalization were gathering force when COVID-19 confirmed what many companies already suspected: Supply chains need to undergo a fundamental transformation. Here’s how to make supply chains more agile and resilient.Starting at €8.20