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KITEA (E): IKEA's Opening Day
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-719422-EStrategyThe case opens in 2016 as Amine Benkirane, CEO of the furniture retailer KITEA, observes KITEA's dormant sales on the day IKEA opens its first store in Morocco. It then provides information on IKEA's Morocco store, as well as a detailed pricing comparison between IKEA products in Morocco and elsewhere and similar products sold by KITEA. The case then asks whether KITEA had any chance to compete with IKEA under the current circumstances, taking in...Starting at €5.74
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Acibadem Healthcare Group
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Cekin, Esel; Kindred, Natalie; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-315120-EThis case focuses on Ac badem Healthcare Group's, Turkey's only premium nationwide hospital network, potential expansion strategies after it was acquired by International Healthcare Holdings Berhad (IHH) in 2011, the world's second-largest publicly listed health care group and a private hospital leader in Singapore and Malaysia. By providing perspectives on both Ac badem and IHH-Parkway-Pantai's operational models, growth aspirations, collabora...Starting at €8.20
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Vita: Cosmetics in the Nordics
Narayandas, Das; Palepu, Krishna G.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-516013-EVita is a Norwegian cosmetics retailer owned by FSN Capital, a Scandinavian private equity company. The company has a strong market position in Norway. The case focuses on two strategic issues: how to develop an e-commerce strategy to supplement the company's traditional retail strategy, and how best to grow the company in Sweden. While both of these are potentially important future growth drivers, they also entail large investments in new capabi...Starting at €8.20
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Pinduoduo
Zhu, Feng; Palepu, Krishna G.; Yining Cao, Bonnie; Lau, DawnCase HBS-620040-EService and Operations ManagementFounded in 2015 by serial entrepreneur, Colin Huang, Pinduoduo Inc. (PDD) had become China's fastest-growing e-commerce platform in history. PDD pioneered a new approach to online shopping that allowed shoppers to share products, invite friends to form shopping teams, and purchase together at discounted prices. The company's rapid development helped it debut on the Nasdaq in July 2018, only three years after its inception. The fast growth was par...Starting at €8.20
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Floward
Palepu, Krishna G.; Arora, NamrataCase HBS-124010-EStrategyIn 2022, Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, CEO and co-founder of Floward, an online flower and gifting company established in Kuwait in 2017, contemplated the firm's growth trajectory. Floward, an e-commerce enterprise that offered fresh-cut flowers sourced directly from global growers and had control over the entire delivery chain, had expanded its footprint to 32 cities across nine MENA countries and had ventured into the UK. Witnessing a remarkable CA...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Transformation at Tata Steel
Palepu, Krishna G.; Narayandas, Das; Kak, RadhikaCase HBS-323053-EStrategyT.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India's oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, entered new segments and adjacent businesses, and launched digital transformation, agility, safety, and sustainability programs. At the heart of his transformation program lay the ...Starting at €8.20
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Hillside Beach Club: Delivering the Ultimate Family Vacation in the Mediterranean
Lal, Rajiv; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-516110-EMarketingIn 2015, Edip Ilkbahar, HBC's founder and CEO, was looking over the plans for a new branch in Cyprus. Since the inception of the company by the Alarko Group of companies in 1994, Ilkbahar's company had enjoyed high occupancy, high guest satisfaction, and high return-visitor rates, not to mention increasing profits from HBC's single location in Fethiye, Turkey. Although branching out had been on the agenda for a couple of years, Ilkbahar was feeli...Starting at €8.20
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Jumia's Path to Profitability
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Armerding, Pippa Tubman; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-721355-EStrategyThe case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company's path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company announced two internal issues in August 2019. The case chronicles the founding and expansion of Jumia and the iterations of its business model and describes its competitive outloo...Starting at €8.20
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iyzico: recaudación de fondos en mercados emergentes (B)
Di Maggio, Marco; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-220S02FinanceEl caso se abre en julio de 2016 Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-fundador y CEO de la tecnología de pago iyzico puesta en marcha con sede en Estambul, contempla los pros y los contras de las diferentes hojas de término la compañía ha recibido para su ronda de Serie C. El caso, entonces informa al lector acerca de algunos cambios en las circunstancias que afectan a los términos de las ofertas preseleccionadas. Al final, el caso plantea esta pregunta: que se...Starting at €5.74
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Tetra Pak Argentina (Spanish Version)
Khanna, Tarun; Palepu, Krishna G.; Herrero, Gustavo A.Case HBS-709S09StrategySe ocupa de las manos a la gestión de una situación difícil frente a la filial de una corporación multinacional (Tetra Pak) en un país en desarrollo (Argentina). La situación surge de una avería importante económica, social e institucional que pone en peligro la existencia de la filial. Argentina dejó de pagar su deuda soberana y devaluó el peso en más de un 200%, pero se diferenció el tratamiento de la tasa de FX para ser aplicado a diversas ope...Starting at €8.20