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The Quest for Achieving Financial Inclusion: M-Pesa Versus UPI
Winig, Laura; Eaves, DavidCase HBS-KS1304-EInformation TechnologiesIn 2019, World Bank analyst Abebi Eke had a difficult assignment: decide whether to recommend that the World Bank, in line with its commitment to expanding financial inclusion to the world's poor, lend its support to a particular digital payments scheme. Eke was asked to investigate two of the most promising payment systems-UPI in India and M-Pesa in Kenya-and prepare a memo comparing the benefits and drawbacks of each. Eke had discovered that wh...Starting at €8.20
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Productos de consumo Disney: marketing nutricional infantil
Bell, David E.; Winig, LauraCase HBS-508S23MarketingEn un esfuerzo por ganar cuota de mercado en la categoría de alimentos de los niños, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) debutó una amplia línea de "mejores para usted" alimentos, que van desde frutas y verduras frescas a las comidas congeladas, a través de una asociación con los supermercados Kroger. En respuesta a una epidemia global de obesidad, DCP reformuló los productos existentes e introdujo nuevos que cumplieron con los requisitos nutricionale...Starting at €8.20
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The HLB Turnaround
Applegate, Lynda M.; Chakravorti, Bhaskar; Winig, LauraCase HBS-810023-EEntrepreneurshipFord Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally invested in the firm, re-organized many aspects of its operations and has hired a younger executive and turnaround expert, Andrew Macey, as COO to help him in the effort. Pearson and M...Starting at €8.20
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Woolf Farming and Processing
Bell, David E.; Winig, Laura; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-510033-EWoolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water and unavailability of surface water due to federally imposed pumping restrictions. Woolf had been farming crops for more than 30 years, but this was the first time they suffered a water shortage so severe that crops had to be abandoned in ...Starting at €8.20
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Marks and Spencer: Plan A
Bell, David E.; Sanghavi, Nitin; Winig, LauraCase HBS-509029-EMarketingMarks & Spencer initiated a comprehensive approach to sustainability (reduction of waste, carbon emissions, fair trade) called Plan A. Does it offer a competitive advantage?Starting at €8.20
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Woolf Farming and the California Water Crisis
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Bell, David E.; Kindred, Natalie; Shelman, Mary; Winig, LauraCase HBS-716038-EEconomicsThis case highlights the tough choices, competing interests, and decision-making mechanisms involved in California's management of its severe drought, entering its fifth year in 2015. Stuart Woolf, CEO of Woolf Farming, a grower and processor of almonds, tomatoes, and other crops in California's Central Valley, must decide how to respond to the changing operating environment. Scarce water resources-and institutional constraints on the use of wate...Starting at €8.20
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Martha Johnson and the General Services Administration (B)
Kelman, Steven; Winig, LauraCase HBS-KS1219-EIn June 2009, Martha Johnson was selected to lead the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), a federal agency headquartered in Washington, D.C that largely oversaw government procurement. After Johnson, a GSA veteran, was sworn into office in February 2010, she told reporters she was committed to holding the GSA to the highest ethical standards. In October 2010, ten months after she took office, four of GSA's Public Buildings Service (PBS) ...Starting at €5.74
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Consumer Payment Systems - Japan
Edelman, Benjamin; Hagiu, AndreiCase HBS-909007-EStrategyIn 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially mobile phones. The case details the alliances that created new products, as well as the regulations that sometimes stood in the way. Throughout, the case identifies incentives for both consumers and merchants, including direct costs...Starting at €8.20
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What's Your Google Strategy
Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David B.Article HBS-R0904F-EStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Multisided platforms can lower your transaction costs and increase customer reach. But powerful MSPs like Microsoft, Google, and Apple have also tended to extract most of the value from their platforms, mainly because companies that played with them didn't adequate...Starting at €8.20
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Staging Two-sided Platforms
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Hagiu, AndreiCase HBS-808004-EStrategyFirms that aspire to develop two-sided platforms face a formidable challenge. Prospective users on each side will not invest in the platform until they are confident there will be enough users on the other side. Traditional strategies for dealing with this dilemma--subsidizing users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided...Starting at €8.20