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Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (E)
Heskett, James L.; Johannessen, Tor Askild AaseCase HBS-908412-EProf. Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response.Starting at €5.74
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Key Elements for Excellence in Classroom Cases and Teaching Notes
Austin, James E.; Heskett, James L.; Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-915417-EThis document identifies the characteristics of excellent case studies and their accompanying teaching notes. The purpose is to provide guidance in preparing these educational vehicles. These guidelines were developed based on consultations with very experienced case teachers and an analysis of the elements of case studies and their teaching notes considered to be high quality by Harvard Business School faculty across departments, and on the ba...Starting at €8.20
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KidZania: Shaping a Strategic Service Vision for the Future
Heskett, James L.; Reynoso, Javier; Cabrera, KarlaCase HBS-916402-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Leverage Value Over Cost: Developing Customer and Employee Ownership
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Wheeler, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3827BC-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizations that foster customer and employee ownership gain an edge on the competition by designing their operating strategies and systems to leverage value over cost. They carefully align all the elements of the strategic value vision to create a unified, self-reinforcing enterprise focused on ownership-and in the process they achieve enviable margins. They pay particular attention to what the authors call "deep indicators," or key value leve...Starting at €8.20
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Weathernews
Lakhani, Karim R.; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-617053-EInformation TechnologiesTomohiro Ishibashi (Bashi), Chief Executive Officer for B to S and Julia Foote LeStage, Chief Innovation Officer of Weathernews Inc., were addressing a panel at the Harvard Business School Digital Summit on creative uses of big data. They told the summit attendees about the Sakura (cherry blossoms) Project, where the company asked users in Japan to report about how cherry blossoms were blooming near them, day by day, had opened up opportunities f...Starting at €8.20
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SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud
Lakhani, Karim R.; Iansiti, Marco; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-614052-EService and Operations ManagementIn May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at SAP's investors meeting, at a time when the company's stock is near record high. A 2010 strategy committed the company to a transition to cloud computing. The main driver behind this transition was the development of SAP HANA, an in-memory computing technology that combined database, ...Starting at €8.20
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Banc One--1996 (Spanish Version)
Heskett, James L.; Thomas N. UrbanCase HBS-302S24Knowledge and CommunicationEn febrero de 1995, Banc One se enfrentó a la sustitución de la "Asociación Poco frecuentes", una estrategia operativa básica que había funcionado bien durante años. Liderazgo ahora tuvo problemas con los nuevos protocolos para las estrategias de operación de reemplazo.Starting at €8.20
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El grupo Benetton
Heskett, James L.Case HBS-304S06Knowledge and CommunicationPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. La dirección del Grupo Benetton incluye ejecutivos de alto nivel que abogan dos estrategias diferentes: 1) la expansión de la fabricación para desarrollar economías con el fin de aumentar las ventas de Benetton en esos mercados, y / o, 2) encontrar maneras de proporcionar apoyo adicional a los minoristas, algunos de los cuales son que opera en los mercados desarrollados fre...Starting at €8.20
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Benetton (A) (Spanish version)
Heskett, James L.; Signorelli, SergioCase HBS-602S19Service and Operations ManagementThe world's largest manufacturer of woolen outerwear garments seeks to extend its retailing network to the United States from its base in Europe. A number of issues concerning marketing, manufacturing, and logistics strategy are raised by the proposed move along with specific questions about how the move should be managed. The case describes a well-thought-out, functionally integrated strategy for Europe in a way that allows assessment of its app...Starting at €8.20
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Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing
Ferreira, Kris; Lakhani, Karim R.Case HBS-617059-EService and Operations ManagementKate Wilson, retail analytics manager at Flashion-a fashion flash-sale site-is tasked with developing analytics to optimize pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing, can Wilson provide new insights?Starting at €8.20