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Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Lietz, Nori GerardoCase HBS-811013-EEntrepreneurshipIn January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of Moneybookers revenues were related to transactions from online gaming sites (down from 100% in 2002). Although the thesis was that e-commerce transactions would soon make up a much large...Starting at €8.20
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Monsanto: Helping Farmers Feed the World
Bell, David E.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-510025-EStrategyMonsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on food production. Through some management missteps and consumer resistance the company had difficulties in its early years. But since Hugh Grant became CEO the picture has brightened with widespread adoption of the company's products. This case focuses on the company's product pipeline and the galvanizing effect of the CEO's promise to substantially improve global food production by 203...Starting at €8.20
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Monsanto: ayudando a los agricultores a alimentar el mundo
Bell, David E.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-515S23StrategyMonsanto ha dirigido los esfuerzos para traer la biotecnología para influir en la producción de alimentos. A través de algunos errores de manejo y resistencia de los consumidores a la compañía tuvo dificultades en sus primeros años. Pero ya que Hugh Grant se convirtió en CEO de la imagen se ha iluminado con la adopción generalizada de los productos de la compañía. Este caso se centra en la cartera de productos de la compañía y el efecto de galvan...Starting at €8.20
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The Slingshot: Improving Water Access
Quelch, John A.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Rodriguez, MargaretCase HBS-514007-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 2012, over 750 million people around the globe lacked access to safe drinking water. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, sought to bring fresh water to poor and rural areas with the Slingshot, a water purification device. Kamen's challenge was to identify ways to distribute the Slingshot to areas where it was most needed. A partnership with the Coca-Cola Company helped Ka...Starting at €8.20
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Amylin Pharmaceuticals B
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-813091-EEntrepreneurshipSupplement for case 809011Starting at €8.20
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Transition at DataCo
Cespedes, Frank V.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-816058-EEntrepreneurshipThe founder of a data analytics company, Stefan Brecht, has several issues with his key business developer and head of marketing and sales, Tamara Smithson. Smithson, an early hire who had been instrumental in building the firm operates as an individual contributor, is hesitant to delegate tasks and clients, and, as Brecht sees it, "often puts client affairs ahead of company needs and procedures." Brecht is evaluating different options for dealin...Starting at €8.20
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The Universalization of L Oreal
Lal, Rajiv; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-513001-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 2010, half of the world's cosmetics sales came from the so-called emerging markets for the first time; L'Or al opened three new subsidiaries, in Egypt, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan; and the Paris, France-based cosmetics and personal care powerhouse declared its intention to double its consumer base to two billion and increase its share of sales from emerging markets. CEO Jea...Starting at €8.20
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inge watertechnologies, GmbH
Nanda, Ramana; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Mittermaier, MarkusCase HBS-812002-EEntrepreneurshipUsing the financing history and exit choices of a German clean-tech startup as a lens, this case explores the reasons why venture-backed entrepreneurship is much lower in Germany that the US, despite a robust SME sector and large-corporate innovation in Germany. It also shows the tight link between investor incentives and a startup's product market strategy, including differences between "pure-play" VCs and corporate venture capital investors.Starting at €8.20
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Associated British Foods, Plc
Goldberg, Ray A.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-912402-EGeorge Weston, CEO of Associated British Foods, and his top executives, are deciding how to position the company, a major agribusiness involved in a range of food and processed food categories, ingredients, consumer brands, sugar, and also clothing, in the constantly evolving global food system.Starting at €8.20
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Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
George, William W.; Palepu, Krishna G.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-413096-ENovartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise with 127,000 employees of 153 nationalities in 140 countries generating $56.7 billion in 2012 revenues and $9.6 billion in net income, making the firm one of the world's largest and mo...Starting at €8.20