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Formulating Strategy, Teaching Note
Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-714485-EStrategyTeaching Note for 712500.Starting at €0.00
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Videojet (A)
Sadun, Raffaella; Anand, Bharat N.; Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-717403-EStrategyIn 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high tech printer just launched in the market. The new product exemplified the first real instance in which the Videojet team had used the managerial processes of the Danaher Business System (DBS). Was the failure of the new printer a sign that the DBS was fundamentally inadequate for product developme...Starting at €8.20
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Videojet (B)
Anand, Bharat N.; Van Den Steen, Eric; Sadun, RaffaellaCase HBS-717410-EStrategyIn 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high tech printer just launched in the market. The new product exemplified the first real instance in which the Videojet team had used the managerial processes of the Danaher Business System (DBS). Was the failure of the new printer a sign that the DBS was fundamentally inadequate for product developme...Starting at €5.74
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Aldi: The Dark Horse Discounter, Teaching Note
Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-714482-EStrategyTeaching Note for 714474.Starting at €0.00
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Drivers of Value Creation
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-714487-EStrategyThis note introduces a concise but comprehensive framework for analyzing value creation and value creation advantage, i.e., a firm's superior ability to increase the spread (or gap) between its offering's customer value (or WTP) and supplier cost (or WTS). (While the framework applies more broadly, it was developed as a component of the PVA framework.)Starting at €8.20
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Akamai's Edge (A)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-712455-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading online content delivery network with a 60% market share, needs to decide how to respond to aggressive entry in its market, whether and how to pursue the explosive growth in online video, and whether to stay with its distributed network model or move towards its competitors' more centralized design.Starting at €8.20
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Navistar International: Competing Against PACCAR
Esty, Benjamin C.; Van Den Steen, Eric; Boyar, JeffreyCase HBS-717452-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Bananas (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-713535-EStrategyTeaching Note for 712451 and 712452.Starting at €0.00
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Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry
Van Den Steen, Eric; Stark, AaronCase HBS-718500-EStrategyAfter years of growth, the Swiss watch industry faced an existential crisis. Exports to the US, their primary market, had dropped by more than two thirds over the past five years. Swiss watches were being disrupted by high-quality and affordable American products. The Swiss had to figure out how to respond. No matter the outcome, the year 1876 would prove to be pivotal.Starting at €8.20
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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Course Overview Note for Instructors
Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-714491-EStrategyThis note gives an overview (for instructors) of the MBA elective course "Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage" (CSCA). The course gives students a deep dive on competitive advantage, on its relation to overall strategic performance (defined as performance corrected for temporary and random effects), and on the role of strategy (as a management tool) and of people in creating and sustaining competitive advantage. The note discusses the c...Starting at €0.00