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The Jia Wu Expansion
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelFocused Case ADFC-3-EDecision Analysis, MarketingSales forecasting is needed for planning. This case describes a situation in which monthly sales forecasts can be produced using very elementary methods. The case may be used as an introduction to this topic. Ideally, it should be followed by other cases in which more advanced methods should be employed. The objective of the case is to illustrate a simple forecasting method for monthly sales data. The data set, supplied in an Excel file (jiawu-a...Starting at €8.20
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The Jia Wu Expansion - Teaching Note
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelTeaching Note ADT-31-EDecision Analysis, MarketingThe Jia Wu Expansion is a teaching note that accompanies the case of the same title. It proposes a set of questions that can serve as the foundation for discussion of the case and it delivers step-by-step solutions to those questions. Sales forecasting is needed for planning. This case describes a situation in which monthly sales forecasts can be produced using very elementary methods. The case may be used as an introduction to this topic. Ideal...Starting at €0.00
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The Sales Trend at Guarini
Osuna, Ignacio; Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelCase AD-370-EDecision AnalysisGuarini, a European supermarket brand, has about 150 stores in Spain. Being able to track about a 70% of the purchases through customer debit cards, Julia García, Guarini's marketing director for Spain, feels herself compelled to exploit Guarini's database, which still remains largely underused. She plans a pilot study using data from one of the stores located in Barcelona. She collects weekly sales data covering two years and tries to estimate f...Starting at €8.20
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I Was Greedy, Too (Spanish version)
Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0302BAmericans are outraged at the greediness of Wall Street analysts, dot-com entrepreneurs and, most of all, chief executive officers. How could Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski use company funds to throw his wife a million-dollar birthday bash on an Italian island? How could Enron's Ken Lay sell thousands of shares of his company's once high-flying stock just before it crashed, leaving employees with nothing? Even America's most popular domestic guru, Marth...Starting at €8.20
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HR Analytics at Barney
N'Guessan, Marie Noelle; Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelCase AD-369-EAccounting and Control, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementBarney Consumer Products (BCP) is a large company based in South Africa. The company's performance has worsened in the last couple of years, and the different departments blame each other. The Human Resources (HR) department manager suggest that the decrease in performance could be driven by a decrease in employee performance due to lack of motivation and stress. The board asks the HR manager to provide some data to back up his intuition. The HR ...Starting at €8.20
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Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
Socolow, Daniel J.; Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0705H-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the business world, "creativity" has become the latest buzzword. How to attract, nurture, and direct the extraordinarily talented people who will come up with the next Lipitor, Sony Walkman, or iPod is an enduring topic among businesspeople. As the director of the MacArthur Fellows Program, Daniel J. Socolow has considerable experience with the process of rooting out creativity. In this conversation with HBR senior editor Diane Coutu, he descr...Starting at €8.20
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Jia Wu goes West - Teaching Note
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinTeaching Note ADT-33-EDecision Analysis, MarketingThe objective of this note is to illustrate forecasting with monthly sales data. It is based on historical data of household goods sales in United Kingdom, from January 1997 to December 2011. The student is challenged to develop a model for these data and to calculate a forecast for 2012 sales, based on this model. There is a companion IESE focus case, - ADFC-003 -"The Jia Wu Expansion", that covers the prior expansion of Jia Wu to Australia. The...Starting at €0.00
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Jia Wu Goes West
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinFocused Case ADFC-4-EDecision Analysis, MarketingThe objective of this case is to illustrate forecasting with monthly sales data. It is based on historical data for household goods sales in the United Kingdom from January 1997 to December 2011. Students are challenged to develop a model for this data and to calculate a forecast for 2012 sales based on that model. There is a companion IESE focus case, ADFC-3 "The Jia Wu Expansion," which describes Jia Wu's earlier expansion to Australia. The pur...Starting at €8.20
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Technology and Human Vulnerability (Spanish version)
Turkle, Sherry; Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0309BService and Operations ManagementFor most of the last 50 years, technology knew its place. It's very different today. Technology is not only ubiquitous but has become highly intrusive as well. On the Internet, people invent imaginary identities in virtual chat rooms. Children are growing up with interactive toy animals. If we want to be sure we'll like who we've become in 50 years, we need to take a closer look at the psychological effects of current and future technologies. The...Starting at €8.20
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Spotting Patterns on the Fly: A Conversation with Birders David Sibley and Julia Yoshida (Spanish version)
Sibley, David; Yoshida, Julia; Coutu, Diane L.Article HBS-R0211BStrategyRecognizing and anticipating change in industry patterns is a core competence for companies today, allowing managers to capitalize on opportunities before they are apparent to others. Yet, companies are far from mastering how to recognize such patterns, especially at the strategic level, where information is usually less profuse and much less precise. Pattern recognition is not a new skill, though, at least not to people outside the business worl...Starting at €8.20