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IPremier Co. (A): Denial of Service Attack
Robert D. Austin; Larry Leibrock; Alan MurrayCase HBS-601114-EService and Operations ManagementDescribes a new CIO trying to manage a denial of service (DOS) attack against his e-retailing business. The attack and its aftermath provide students an opportunity to discuss the business issues that are interwoven with computer security issues.Starting at €8.20
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The Responsible Manager (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-F1001GLeadership and People ManagementManagers must remember that they are the custodians of society's most powerful institutions, and as such they must hold themselves to a higher standard. They must strive to achieve success with responsibility. He offers 11 specific pieces of advice intended to spur his listeners to reexamine their values before plunging into everyday routines. Among them are 1) Display a commitment to learning and developing yourself. 2) Put personal performance...Starting at €8.20
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Serving the World's Poor, Profitably (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.; Hammond, AllenArticle HBS-R0209CEconomicsBy stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people and help create a more stable, less dangerous world. Achieving this goal does not require MNCs to spearhead global social-development initiatives for charitable purposes. They need only act in their own self-interest. How? The authors lay out the business case for entering the world's poorest market...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation's Holy Grail
Prahalad, C.K.; Mashelkar, R.A.Article HBS-R1007N-EStrategyAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift in mind-set, but a few emerging-market pioneers are showing the way: They're designing inexpensive products and manufacturing them with so little capital and on a scale so vast that their prices-1 cent for a one-minute telephone call, $2,000 for a car-are the lowest in the world. Nowhere is this...Starting at €8.20
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Open Banking
Robert D. Austin; Jashan PuniyaCase IVEY-9B21M060-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), one of the world’s largest banks, was confronting the advent of open banking in its retail banking business. In late 2020, policy makers and regulators were advocating movement toward open banking with growing enthusiasm as a way to stimulate competition in the financial services sector and thus, encourage greater value creation for consumers.
JPMC, however, seemed to embrace open banking while also resisting i...Starting at €8.20
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Tokyo Jane
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Simon SchaferCase IVEY-9B14M085-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTokyo Jane is an accessible fashion jewelry company that makes and markets its products as “luxury for less” by designing, importing and selling fashion jewelry pieces that look luxurious but cost only a fraction of the high-priced items that inspired them. Finished products are air-shipped to company headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark from factories in China, stocked in the head office and delivered to 400 retail partners —small fashion boutiqu...Starting at €8.20
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Understanding the Link Between Crisis and Innovation
Robert D. Austin; Thomas Watson; Mark HealyArticle IVEY-9B20TD02-EStrategyThe COVID-19 pandemic has businesses around the world experimenting—but it is what happens when things go wrong that separates the innovators from the wannabes.Starting at €8.20
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Mircom Technologies Ltd. (B): Reflections of the CEO
Robert D. Austin; Laurel C. Austin; R. ChandrasekharCase IVEY-W28581-EInformation TechnologiesSupplemental product to W28457.Starting at €5.74
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Knight Capital Americas LLC
Robert D. Austin; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15E008-EInformation TechnologiesIt took 19 years to build Knight Capital Americas LLC into the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, but on August 1, 2012, it took only 45 minutes for the firm to be wiped out by an information technology (IT) problem: a change in the company's software caused it to lose more than $450 million dollars in less than an hour. Although it was ultimately saved from bankruptcy when it was acquired two days later, the terms of acquisitio...Starting at €8.20
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Pagani Automobili S.p.A: Motoring Becomes Electric
Robert D. Austin; Adrian PierceCase IVEY-9B19M066-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2018, Modena, Italy’s Pagani Automobili S.p.A (Pagani Automobili), a boutique designer and manufacturer of high-performance internal combustion engine powered supercars, was struggling to develop a response to the emergence of electric vehicle teStarting at €8.20