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FC Barcelona: More Than a Club, More Than Data - Teaching Note
Zamora, Javier; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SIT-25-EInformation TechnologiesBy the late 2010s, FC Barcelona had become one of the most important sports clubs in the world, whose success on the field was accompanied by an income that had grown in leaps and bounds and was approaching ?1 billion. The club's organization had grown and adapted, sometimes with difficulty, to the new reality of football. This was now a gigantic global business that could no longer be managed as it had back when the club won its first European C...Starting at €0.00
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Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (E): Excerpts from a Letter from Head of School Caroline Erisman, May 2015
McFarlan, F. WarrenCase HBS-116006-EDana Hall is a private all-girls school in New England facing a crisis in its mission. As social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and sports--at a time when Dana Hall's resources are lower than ever before. Can the school stay true to its mission? How will it find...Starting at €5.74
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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-PBInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20
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Anovo Ibérica: introduciendo IA en las operaciones
Zamora, Javier; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-207Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementEn 2018 Anovo, un proveedor de servicios posventa para productos de tecnología, empezó a estudiar la posibilidad de utilizar IA para mejorar la eficiencia de sus operaciones. En 2020, ja estaba en marcha la prueba piloto de su primera implementación: un nuevo proceso de diagnóstico automatizado, que empleaba aprendizaje automático (machine learning o ML) para optimizar las operaciones de la empresa en reparación de smartphones. Hasta el momento l...Starting at €8.20
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Charles Schwab Corp. (A) (Spanish version)
McFarlan, F. Warren; Tempest, NicoleCase HBS-302S30Information TechnologiesA look at the industrial restructuring in the brokerage industry made possible by e-commerce. Focuses the student's attention on the decision alternatives facing Charles Schwab, one of the industry leaders in January 1998. In a word, the challenge is "Do they slash prices to meet competition from companies like E-Trade or do they stand still?"Starting at €8.20
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Secom: Managing Information Security in a Risky World
McFarlan, F. Warren; Austin, Robert D.Case HBS-308015-EInformation TechnologiesExamines the type of security that is appropriate for an Internet company to have on its site. Focuses on a 20-person electronic e-commerce company trying to decide what parts of the information security product line they should acquire from the largest sStarting at €8.20
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Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand
McFarlan, F. Warren; Abrami, Regina; Kirby, William C.; Manty, Tracy YuenCase HBS-308052-ESetting up the goal to become one of the top 20 enterprises in the world dairy industry by 2010, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group had ambitious plans. As one of China's biggest national dairy companies, its main challenge was competing as a local company against joint venture rivals who benefited from perks granted to "foreign" companies. To set itself apart, Yili focused on research and development and innovative ways to improve the industry. Provi...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Competition in Fashion & Luxury Goods: YNAP versus Farfetch
Ferraro, Fabrizio; Baldo, Andrea; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1656-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn 2015, Federico Marchetti became CEO of the largest luxury online retailer in the world, after orchestrating the merger of Yoox Group with Net-a-Porter Group. Two years later, in 2017, the financial community was expecting him to deliver results. However, the new combined ?1.8 billion company was not growing as fast as it used to, and questions remained about the synergies that could be achieved between two companies with very different busines...Starting at €8.20
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Bodegas PRADOREY: Keys to the Future of a Family Business in the Winemaking Industry
Elvira, Marta; Proaño Vicente, Ángel; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1708-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2022, after several tough years turning the company around, Bodegas PRADOREY was finally looking towards the future. Founded in 1989, this family-owned winery had become an important winemaker within Ribera del Duero, one of Spain's Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) winemaking regions. But PRADOREY's road had not been an easy one. The winery had gone through difficult times in the 2010s, which could easily have ended the company. Thanks to...Starting at €8.20