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Helena Divi ov
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-220020-EEntrepreneurshipHelena Divi ov (MBA, 2016) decided to return home to the Czech Republic soon after graduation to be near her father who became seriously ill soon after she started HBS. She had considered leaving HBS immediately to help run his business. But her father, who grew up in the Czech Republic when travel and overseas educational opportunities were severely limited, would not allow her to abandon her studies. Instead, Divi ov 's husband, Pavel Divi...Starting at €8.20
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Beznoska: Sell Me Your Stocks
Martin Jurek, Mohit Srivastava, Karel Pernica, Jiri HnilicaCase IVEY-W31002-EStrategyIn late January 2020, the chief executive officer and third-generation successor of BEZNOSKA s.r.o., a traditional Czech manufacturer of joint implants, was preparing for an annual shareholders’ meeting with the family business owners. The annual report indicated that the company had experienced its worst financial year in its 30-year history. The company was also facing challenges from new competitors in the market and the need to comply with a ...Starting at €8.20
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Forta Furniture: International Expansion
Quelch, John A.; Easwar, KarthikCase HBS-918547-EMarketingThe Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings. In addition, the case suggests there are many routes to global expansion; a firm could look to build a brand in these new markets or compete as a private label. Further, the case add...Starting at €8.20
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International Expansion
Quelch, John A.; Easwar, KarthikCase HBS-919S06MarketingThe Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings. In addition, the case suggests there are many routes to global expansion; a firm could look to build a brand in these new markets or compete as a private label. Further, the case add...Starting at €8.20
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Emerging Markets: Look Before You Leap
Khanna, Tarun; Palepu, KrishnaArticle ART-2385-EStrategyThink "emerging markets," and most people think BRICs. The problem with this approach is that it is too simplistic and tends to treat emerging markets as one homogeneous whole, when the exact opposite is true. Instead of asking, "What's my emerging market strategy for Brazil, Russia, India or China?" companies should ask themselves, "In which ways is this particular market emerging?" Viewed this way, the answer may surprise them. The authors synt...Starting at €8.20
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RMS Teleinformatics' CEO - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: When the Interest of Shareholders and the Company Are at Odds
Moszoro, Marian; Jamro, KonradCase E-140-ECorporate GovernanceRMS Teleinformatics is a high-tech, privately owned company which has been active in the Polish market for 18 years, with over 40 million EUR of revenue. Its CEO wants to grow the company and ensure a better future. He therefore negotiates an investment from a private equity fund (PE). However, the owner of the company and the main shareholder (98% of shares) are against PE, because, according to the five-year projections, the company will be bet...Starting at €8.20
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Pravost Consulting Services
Wasynczuk, Andrew; Chang, Tiffany Y.Case HBS-918033-ELeadership and People ManagementPravost Consulting Services considers a division manager's response to the stringent demands of his boss who lambasts him for the division's weak performance. Six months earlier Jakub Kowalski, CEO of Pravost, promoted Viktor Novak to head up the faltering Pravost Consulting Services (PCS). For the most recent two quarters, however, PCS proved to be unfertile ground for Novak who failed to reach Kowalski's (or his own) goals for the division. Kow...Starting at €8.20
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Herend Porcelain Manufactory: Designing Strategy in a COVID-19 World
Elias Goletsas; Anass Karzazi; Pardeep Singh Attri; Yusaf AkbarCase IVEY-W27119-EStrategyHerend Porcelain Manufactory Ltd. (Herend) was an almost 200-year-old porcelain manufactory located in western Hungary. The company had weathered multiple social and political changes, world wars, and hardships and had variably experienced prosperity, international recognition, and, on one occasion, bankruptcy. However, under the current chief executive officer, Herend had become a stable and profitable organization. Then, in March 2020, the COVI...Starting at €8.20
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Strategizing at Monarchia Matt International (MMI)
Michael J. Rouse; Jordan MitchellCase IVEY-9B07M014-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAs of late 2004, the chief executive officer (CEO) of New York-based wine distributor Monarchia Matt International (MMI) is looking at his portfolio of wines and wondering what advantage Hungarian wine could provide in becoming a powerful niche player in the highly fragmented and complicated U.S. wine industry. The CEO is cognizant of Hungarian wine's reputation in the United States as an inexpensive, mass-quantity produced and low quality drink....Starting at €8.20
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Lincoln Financial Group (B): Making LFD a Reality (Spanish version)
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-513S25MarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €5.74