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El negocio de dióxido de titanio de Du Pont (E)
Ghemawat, PankajCase HBS-309S14StrategyProporciona a los estudiantes la oportunidad de realizar un seguimiento de la evolución de la industria con el tiempo, para explorar el papel que puede desempeñar en la señalización de dicha evolución, y para construir y validar escenarios de la industria.Starting at €5.74
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Lehigh Steel (Spanish version)
Narayanan, V.G.; Donohue, Laura E.Case HBS-107S10Accounting and ControlLehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead costs in an increasingly customized product line suggests that activity-based costing (ABC) could unlock the secrets of profitability. However, the high fixed-cost structure suggests th...Starting at €8.20
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Whose Money Is It Anyway (C)
Narayanan, V.G.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-810031-EAccounting and ControlThe case describes how the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization and its corporate parent resolved the issue of how the disputed funds would be distributed and used.Starting at €5.74
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Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Deshpande, Tanvi; Ramachandran, ShreyaCase HBS-120053-EAccounting and ControlIn May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was hitting hard times financially. It had been dealing with declining revenues for the past five years, and its losses had tripled between 2014-16. A slowdown in factory plant processes in 2006 and the ...Starting at €8.20
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Celebrity Fashions: Moving Ahead (B)
Narayanan, V.G.; Deshpande, Tanvi; Ramachandran, ShreyaCase HBS-120054-EAccounting and ControlIn May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was hitting hard times financially. It had been dealing with declining revenues for the past five years, and its losses had tripled between 2014-16. A slowdown in factory plant processes in 2006 and the ...Starting at €5.74
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Whose Money Is It Anyway (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-810008-EAccounting and ControlThe Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must negotiate who has control of the funds which impacts how the funds may be used.Starting at €8.20
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China vs the World: Whose Technology Is It
Hout, Thomas M.; Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R1012H-EStrategyNo longer content with being the world's factory for low-value products, China has quietly opened a new front in its campaign to become the globe's most powerful economy: It's on a quest for high-tech dominance. In pursuit of this goal, the Chinese government has ensured that it will be both buyer and seller in certain key industries by retaining ownership of customers and suppliers alike. It has consolidated manufacturers in those industries int...Starting at €8.20
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Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals
Narayanan, V.G.; Wilson, Michael G; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-108016-EAccounting and ControlTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide how to reorganize services to take advantage of newly created efficiencies. Focuses on the Orthopedics department at one of the hospitals.Starting at €8.20
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Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Freed, PamelaCase HBS-108057-EAccounting and ControlTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Samit Ghosh, the CEO and founder of Ujjivan, a major microfinance provider in Bangalore, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty alleviation, while simultaneously reaching out to higher-income customers. The case explores how Ujjivan can grow,...Starting at €8.20
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Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network: The Primary Care Unit
Narayanan, V.G.; Moore, Ryan; Brem, LisaCase HBS-100054-EAccounting and ControlThe Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some concern that it might be inaccurately representing the true cost of the intern and resident program, the interpretive services department, and the use of nurse practitioners. So the Prim...Starting at €8.20