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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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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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Bananas (A)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-712451-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. As owner and CEO, Wim Van der Borght had grown Bananas in 8 years from a 4.5 million euro company into a 40 million euro group of companies with a range of field marketing activities in Belgium and the Netherlands. The core of the group consisted of two companies - Bananas and Demonstrate - which were operationally completely independent and acted as competitors in the marke...Starting at €8.20
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Tesla Motors
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-714413-EStrategyIn mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised first-year production targets; and had started taking orders for its next car, the Model X. Tesla seemed to be on its way to defying the skeptics and becoming the first US company to enter the car industry with a mass-produced car since WWII and the first to successfully launch a fully electri...Starting at €8.20
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IKEA
Van Den Steen, Eric; Galor, AlonCase HBS-716458-EStrategyAt Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators-bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao-are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have discovered many ways to increase their performance. Meanwhile a globally-networked team of manufacturing experts led by Marty Cole, the case protagonist, is trying to spread best pr...Starting at €8.20
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Tesla Motors (Spanish version)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-715S14StrategyIt had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised first-year production targets; and had started taking orders for its next car, the Model X. Tesla seemed to be on its way to defying the skeptics and becoming the first US company to enter the car industry with a mass-produced car since WWII and the first to successfully launch a fully electric car. Or was it not?Starting at €8.20
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Bananas (B)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-712452-EStrategySupplemental Material for Product Number 712451.Starting at €5.74
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SoulCycle
Collis, David J.; Van Den Steen, Eric; Hartman, AshleyCase HBS-717454-EStrategyCo-founders Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler have grown SoulCycle from a business idea in 2006 to a major presence among urban boutique fitness studios in 2015. In March 2015, fitness company Equinox approaches them with an offer to buy them out. Evaluating the offer requires an assessment of market or industry attractiveness and of SoulCycle's (potential) competitive advantage.Starting at €8.20
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Strategy and the Strategist, Teaching Note
Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-714486-EStrategyTeaching Note for 713533.Starting at €0.00
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Airgas, Inc.
Van Den Steen, Eric; Karl, JasonCase HBS-714517-EStrategyIn 2013, Airgas was the market leader in packaged industrial gas distribution. Recent acquisitions had made it into a larger player in upstream gas production as well, where it competed with Praxair and Air Products. Should Airgas continue building a position in gas production or divest these activities?Starting at €8.20