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Rural Taobao: Alibaba's Expansion into Rural E-Commerce
Khanna, Tarun; Allen, Ryan; Frost, Adam; Koo, WesleyCase HBS-719433-EStrategyAlibaba's Rural Taobao initiative had been launched in 2014 as a public service initiative to increase e-commerce adoption in China's remote rural areas. In the first two iterations of the initiative, dubbed "1.0" and "2.0", Alibaba had partnered with local businesses and young returnees to operate village stations. Village stations served as logistical and educational hubs to help villagers make online purchases. Despite significant growth in sa...Starting at €8.20
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS
Khanna, Tarun; Bloom, Sonali R.; Bloom, David E.Case HBS-709429-EThis case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide. There is a focus especially on its efforts in several emerging markets, particularly the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-r...Starting at €8.20
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS, Teaching Note
Khanna, Tarun; Bloom, David E.; Bloom, Sonali R.Teaching Note HBS-709454-ETeaching Note for [709429].Starting at €0.00
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Relevant Costs for Decision Making (III): Product Decisions at Capacity
Rosanas, Josep MariaTechnical Note CN-144-EAccounting and ControlThis is the third of a three-note series (CN-155-E, CN-143-E and CN-144-E). This note introduces decision rules for situations where the company is working near capacity. The basic rule of contribution per unit of capacity is stated and applied to a variety of situations.Starting at €8.20
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Relevant Costs for Decision Making (II): Product Decisions at Under Capacity
Rosanas, Josep MariaTechnical Note CN-143-EAccounting and ControlThis is the second of a three-note series (CN-155-E, CN-143-E and CN-144-E). This note deals with the use of cost accounting data for decision making purposes. After classifying business decisions between investment and operating decisions, and the latter between pricing and production decisions, the note studies production decisions in situations where the firm is working below production capacity. The special order problem, dropping and adding ...Starting at €8.20
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Costes y decisiones (II): decisiones de producto a baja capacidad
Rosanas, Josep MariaTechnical Note CN-143Accounting and ControlÉsta es la segunda de una serie de tres notas (CN-155-E, CN-143-E y CN-144-E). Esta nota aborda el uso de datos de contabilidad de costes en la toma de decisiones. Después de clasificar las decisiones de negocio en decisiones de inversión y decisiones operativas, y estas últimas en decisiones de precios y decisiones de producción, la nota estudia las decisiones de producción en aquellas situaciones en las que una empresa trabaja por debajo de la ...Starting at €8.20
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Microsoft en China y en India, 1993-2007
Khanna, Tarun; Choudhury, PrithwirajCase HBS-711S29StrategySe relaciona con la expansión de Microsoft en China e India en el período 1993-2007 y los temas estratégicos que enfrentan las multinacionales en los mercados emergentes.Starting at €8.20
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China + India: el poder combinado
Khanna, TarunArticle HBS-R0712DEconomicsChina e India están enterrando el hacha de guerra después de poco más de cuatro décadas de hostilidad. Algunas compañías de ambos países se han apresurado a obtener ventajas competitivas mediante la visualización de los dos como simbiótica. Si las corporaciones occidentales no pueden hacer lo mismo, van a perder su ventaja competitiva - y no sólo en China e India, sino a nivel mundial. El problema es que la mayoría de las empresas y consultores s...Starting at €8.20
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Análisis de desviaciones de beneficios
Grandes, Mª Jesús; Rosanas, Josep MariaTechnical Note CN-164Accounting and ControlLa nota desarrolla un mètodo de anàlisis de desviaciones de beneficios (previstos versus reales) como paso importante en el proceso de control. Se hace especial hincapié en la necesidad de seleccionar e interpretar la información que se utiliza en dicho análisis.Starting at €8.20
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Chemblog A.G. (C)
Cugueró-Escofet, Natàlia; Rosanas, Josep MariaCase C-763-EAccounting and ControlIn the end, Chemblog chose not to make the investment proposed by Quimic, its subsidiary in Spain (see Cases A and B). The subsidiary was forced to abide by the decision of the German head office and thus became the Spanish distributor of Chem 1. Kressing notified Quimic of the decision by e-mail, and expressed the group's satisfaction with the initiative and with the excellent management of the Spanish subsidiary. The only issue that remained wa...Starting at €5.74