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Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness, Teaching Note
Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge; Porter, Michael E.Teaching Note HBS-711481-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 710417.Starting at €0.00
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Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness
Porter, Michael E.; Ramirez-Vallejo, JorgeCase HBS-710417-EEconomicsThe case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizations for competitiveness.Starting at €8.20
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Asociación Colombiana de Industrias Plásticas (Acoplasticos) (Spanish Version)
Porter, Michael E.; Emmons, Willis M.Case HBS-705S10StrategyACOPLASTICOS se estableció en 1961 como un grupo de presión para los principales plásticos de Colombia las empresas de fabricación. En la década de 1980, la organización cambió su enfoque hacia la mejora de la productividad de los plásticos de Colombia y clúster de goma, que también incluían cierto petroquímica, fibras sintéticas o artificiales, la pintura, y las industrias de tinta. Con el tiempo, las actividades de la organización se ampliaron ...Starting at €8.20
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Sanofi Pasteur: The Dengue Vaccine Dilemma
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Bloom, David E.; Dessain, Vincent; Billaud, EmilieCase HBS-514074-EIn 2012, Sanofi Pasteur was racing to develop a vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, and was evaluating this product in a Phase IIb trial conducted with school children in Thailand. But while the candidate vaccine met the high safety expectations and a good balanced immune answer, it had a proof of efficacy of only 30%, far below the 70% mark the company had targeted. Guillaume Leroy, vice president of the Dengue Company at Sanofi Pa...Starting at €8.20
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Carulla & Cía, S.A.
Barrero, F.; Gómez G.; Santomá, JavierCase F-654FinanceLa mayor empresa de distribución alimentaria de Colombia, se plantea la política financiera necesaria para financiar el crecimiento de la empresa en los próximos años. Ante un entorno económico de altos tipos de interés, mercados de financiación pequeños y una competencia creciente Carulla se plantea la alternativa de una ampliación de capital distribuida e el extranjero, especialmente EEUU vía ADR½s. El caso permite discutir las ventajas e incon...Starting at €8.20
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Metaza: Implementing Corporate Governance in a Family Business
Gonzalo Gomez Betancourt; José Luis Rivas; Pedro VazquezCase IVEY-W34069-EDecision Analysis, StrategyMetaza SA (Metaza) was a family business created by two brothers who later invited their younger siblings to join the firm. Metaza operated in the steel sector, a capital-intensive business with fierce competition. The industry had experienced several mergers and acquisitions led by international players. To remain competitive, Metaza had changed its strategy, moving away from being a steel dealer and toward being a value-added producer. However,...Starting at €8.20
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Colombina S.A.: Entering the Ice Cream Market
Enrique Ramirez; Juanita Cajiao SaenzCase IVEY-9B18A008-EMarketing, StrategyIn March 2017, the vice-president of the ice cream division at Colombina S.A. (Colombina), was in her office at the company’s headquarters in Cali, Colombia. She was reviewing the growth figures for the company’s ice cream business, for which she was accountable. The sales target set for the company in 2010 was US$1 billion by 2020, and the ice cream segment would play a fundamental role in reaching that target. The vice-president remembered what...Starting at €8.20
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Khao Yai Winery: An Economic Perspective
Jordan FrenchCase IVEY-9B17M035-EStrategyIn 2015, the marketing and business developer at Khao Yai Winery in Thailand wondered whether a new excise tax, which the government implemented in 2012, had led to a decrease in sales despite an overall increase in wine consumption in Thailand. Before deciding whether he should lobby the government to lower the excise tax, he tasked three interns to examine how the government’s taxes on imported and domestic wines affected the winery. The intern...Starting at €8.20
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Magic Markers (A): Growing a Whiteboard Animation Company
Liliana Lopez Jimenez; Matthias A. TietzCase IVEY-9B18M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2013, two entrepreneurs founded Magic Markers, a whiteboard animation company in Bogotá, Colombia, with the mission of gracefully explaining complex issues to interested audiences. The (A) case describes how the company experienced unanticipated growth after one of its videos went viral. The two founders faced several challenges and needed to quickly learn how to manage their growing business. Human resources issues proved to be particularly t...Starting at €8.20
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How to Tackle a Strategy Case
Cara C. MaurerTechnical Note IVEY-9B21M040-EStrategyThis short technical note offers a multi-step process for how to analyze a strategy case. The technical note makes reference to frameworks and tools found in the following strategy textbook: Mary M. Crossan, Cara C. Maurer, W. Glenn Rowe, and Michael J. Rouse, Strategic Analysis and Action, 10th ed. (Toronto, ON: Pearson Publishing, 2021) [forthcoming]. This note explains that cases have no single correct answer and that if the analysis has no te...Starting at €8.20