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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong (HBR Case Study)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401X-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401Z-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Garvin, David A.Article HBS-R1401L-ELeadership and People ManagementParivar, an IT services firm with a long history of attracting talented people with its family-like culture suddenly faces a spate of resignations among rank-and-file employees. As the vice president of HR tries to figure out what's behind the exodus, the CEO wants to create a brand-new function charged with reinforcing the company's culture. As Parivar prepares for global expansion, is emphasizing the family-like atmosphere the key to retaining ...Starting at €8.20
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Privalia: From Private Club to Fashion Brand
Fernandez Garcia-Andrade, Pablo; Oliver, XavierCase M-1330-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyThe private club (a business model pioneered by the French company Vente-privee in 2001) was the main driver of fashion e-commerce. On the one hand, it helped get rid of brands' stocks discreetly and allowed shoppers to buy heavily discounted fashion products, which they could not find online anywhere else since many brands did not use e-commerce and, in some cases, did not even have websites. These circumstances helped this type of e-commerce co...Starting at €8.20
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The National Geographic Society (A) (Spanish version)
Garvin, David A.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-317S02Strategycreating a senior management position responsible for e-commerce to coordinate web-based offerings and outreach across the Society's various departments, transition NGS from its many disparate and independent direct mail efforts to a more integrated and strategic e-commerce strategy, and leverage the NGS relationship with its members-currently defined as magazine subscribers, since a subscription comes with Society membership. Putting the final ...Starting at €8.20
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BCN Brand: paseando Barcelona por el mundo
Sicart, Sara; Oliver, XavierCase M-1340Decision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, MarketingEn tan sólo tres años y con trece empleados, Pablo Caralps crea BCN Brand, una pujante empresa con presencia en ocho países y una interesante cartera: zapatillas de colores, polos, ropa de baño, carcasas de móvil, gafas de sol, cascos de moto, marroquinería, bicis e, incluso, extintores. ¿Su objetivo? Transmitir una sensación de verano eterno y exportar el Barcelona lifestyle, una estrategia que está resultando todo un éxito: facturaron 700.000 e...Starting at €8.20
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El Celler de Can Roca: Best in the World - Teaching Note
Oliver, Xavier; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note MT-45-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, MarketingThis note serves as an instructor's guide to the case study "El Celler de Can Roca: Best in the World" (M 1357 E). The case sets out the monthly schedule of one of the three Roca brothers - the managers of the world-renowned haute cuisine restaurant El Celler de Can Roca. Through this schedule, the case reveals the inner workings of the business: its strategy, structure, positioning, corporate culture, and performance. In many ways, El Celler de ...Starting at €0.00
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Privalia: de private club a marca de moda
Fernandez Garcia-Andrade, Pablo; Oliver, XavierCase M-1330Entrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyEl comercio electrónico de moda tuvo como principal impulsor a los private clubs (un modelo de negocio iniciado por la francesa vente-privee en Francia en 2001). Por un lado, ayudaba a quitar el stock de las marcas de forma discreta y permitía a los clientes comprar productos de moda a grandes descuentos que no podían encontrar digitalmente de ninguna otra manera, ya que muchas marcas no disponían de comercio electrónico e, incluso, en algunos ca...Starting at €8.20
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The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)
Garvin, David A.; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-312120-EIn January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management position res...Starting at €8.20
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Quick Mechanic Outlets
Oliver, XavierExercise ME-5-EMarketingIn a market where consumers do not have any preferences, a company is considering its future, convinced that the only way it can survive is either by lowering prices further or creating a story that will be transmitted from one customer to the next. It will therefore have to get workers, suppliers and users involved in a project that is bigger than that of a chain of quick repair shops.Starting at €8.20