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SAP: Branding in the Digital Age
Narayandas, Das; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-518058-EMarketingBy 2017, digital, social, and mobile technologies were rapidly changing the way many of SAP's traditional customers did business over the last decade. In response to this trend, SAP had acquired companies with capabilities in e-commerce, human capital, workforce management, travel and expense management, and other areas. No longer able to rely on a single contact point through customers' IT departments, SAP's salesforce now had to target a variet...Starting at €8.20
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Tough Choices at the G mez Lobster Cooperative
Henderson, Rebecca M.; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-315105-EThis case is designed to be used with HBS Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century, HBS No. 315-074.Starting at €8.20
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Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved
Kim, John Jong-Hyun; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-316140-EIn fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada-based education technology non-profit Rumie had distributed thousands of computer tablets preloaded with collections of thousands of pieces of curated educational content to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in some of the most impoverished countries around the world that lacked basic educational resources. Founder and executive director Tariq Fancy, with his team, was deciding whether to accept a large new...Starting at €8.20
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Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor
Lerner, Josh; Dionne, John D.; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-818023-EFinanceThe case examines the March 2015 Centerbridge Partners investment decision regarding whether to acquire Great Wolf Resorts, a North American family-oriented indoor water parks and hotel operator, from a private equity (PE) competitor, Apollo Global Management. The case allows for discussion of strategic and financing considerations by Centerbridge, a New York-based investment firm employing a flexible approach across investment disciplines: priva...Starting at €8.20
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Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
George, William W.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-317063-EStrategyRoyal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM's global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company's final moves away from commodity chemicals and toward more sustainable businesses whereby DSM could create value with differentiated offerings. Sijbesma emphasized innovation and mo...Starting at €8.20
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Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelez International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy
Sadun, Raffaella; Collis, David J.; Migdal, Amram; Herman, KerryCase HBS-718403-EStrategyThe case focuses on Irene Rosenfeld's tenure as CEO of the global snack food company Mondel z International. Beginning in 2006, she had led the company through many acquisitions, including France's LU Biscuit and British confectionery company Cadbury, before, in 2012, boldly splitting the company into two: Kraft, a North American grocery business, and Mondel z International, a global snack food company. This case is accompanied by a Video Shor...Starting at €8.20
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Soofa: Displaying the Right Path
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Klopfenstein, Amy; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-820098-EEntrepreneurshipIn November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and pursuing an aggressive expansion strategy, while the other represents a more modest $3 million raise to bring the company to operating profitability. Richter had developed the $15 mil...Starting at €8.20
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uberPOOL
Iansiti, Marco; Toffel, Michael W.; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-617009-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares.Starting at €8.20
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Pricing PatientPing
Cespedes, Frank V.; Kelley, Julia; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-818017-EIn 2017, Jay Desai, the CEO of Boston-based health care technology company PatientPing, had to consider a number of interrelated pricing challenges. Founded in late 2013, PatientPing sold a software platform that allowed health care providers to receive real-time notifications ("Pings") when one of their patients was admitted to or discharged from a health care facility. Pings allowed providers to coordinate with one another to reduce costs and e...Starting at €8.20
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New Director Dilemmas - Family Affairs
Fubini, David G.; Srinivasan, Suraj; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-120103-EThis case focuses on a new director who is must help resolve a disagreement between two generations of leaders in a family business. The case raises questions of the proper role and approach for a director trying to manage a legitimate disagreement between shareholders with different time horizons and specific interests. This case is part of a series of vignettes that capture different dilemmas faced by directors as they join boards of companies ...Starting at €8.20