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Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)
Alcacer, Juan; Molander, Rasmus; Mabud, RakeenCase HBS-710471-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 1991, Hartwall and Pripps made the decision to found Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku.Starting at €5.74
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Emerging Nokia?
Alcacer, Juan; Khanna, Tarun; Furey, Mary; Mabud, RakeenCase HBS-710429-EStrategyBy late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume emerging markets. This case poses the following questions: Should Nokia stay the course, operating in both the developed and emerging markets, or should they forego one for the other?...Starting at €8.20
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Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Khanna, Tarun; Skurnik, Samuli; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-709409-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the regional cooperatives own SOK, a centralized company that provides services to the regional cooperatives. Throughou...Starting at €8.20
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Nokia's Growing Cash Mountain
Mitchell, Jordan; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-777-EFinanceIn mid-November 2002, Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia and his management team must decide a course of action for his company's growing "cash pile" of ?8 billion. The company does not have any immediate acquisitions on the horizon and boasts a low debt load: ?450 million in long-term debt and ?2.6 billion in customer financing exposure. Ollila has recently ruled out a share buy-back after credit agencies like Moody's threatened to downgrade the compa...Starting at €8.20
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F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market
Applegate, Lynda M.; Austin, Robert D.; Lyytinen, Kalle; Penttinen, Esko; Saarinen, TimoCase HBS-809099-EInformation TechnologiesDescribes the development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an innovative new service model. The case describes the challenges involved in developing and executing the new service model, and offers students opportunities to discuss the evolving challenges the comp...Starting at €8.20
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Kyrö Distillery Company: Brutally Finnish in Japan
Miikka J. Lehtonen, Arto Lindblom, Gene ThompsonCase IVEY-W34817-EMarketing, StrategyKyrö Distillery Company (Kyrö), founded in 2012 in Isokyrö, Finland, focused on producing rye whisky from Finnish rye. However, it took an average of three years for one batch of whisky to be produced and ready for sale, so, to cover their costs and stay afloat, the founders decided to start producing gin, which could be produced faster. As luck had it, in 2014, Kyrö’s rye-based Napue Gin was named the best gin in the gin-and-tonic category in th...Starting at €8.20
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Supercell
Kerr, William R.; Jones, Benjamin; Brownell, AlexisCase HBS-817052-EEntrepreneurshipSupercell is a young Finnish smartphone game company with an unusual team structure and company philosophy. It is already one of Finland's most valuable companies, and despite being only 6 years old, it has put up some impressive numbers: as of 2016, it has released only four games for global audiences, but each one has made it to the top (or almost to the top) of the most-downloaded and most-revenue-generated app charts; it has recorded multi-mi...Starting at €8.20
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Vertu: Last Call for British Luxury Mobile Phone Maker
Margaret Osborne; Ken Kwong-Kay WongCase IVEY-9B19A005-EMarketing, StrategyVertu Corporation Limited (Vertu), a manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones, was founded as a subsidiary of Nokia in 2000. It was later acquired by a Swedish private equity firm in 2012, and then sold to Godin Holdings in 2015. Despite these multiple corporate ownership transitions, Vertu had remained uniquely positioned, differentiated by its phones’ bejewelled embellishments and a worldwide concierge service available at the touch of...Starting at €8.20