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Kinyuseisaku: Política Monetaria en Japón (A)
Kanno, Akiko; Alfaro, LauraCase HBS-714S11EconomicsToshihiko Fukui, gobernador del Banco de Japón, se enfrentaba a una situación compleja en el otoño de 2007. Una recuperación económica había permitido al banco central a abandonar su política de interés cero tasa, que había estado en vigor desde hace años, y las tasas de aumento a 0,5% . El Banco de Japón estaba dispuesto a aumentar a niveles más 'normales' para ejercer una política monetaria eficaz. Sin embargo, el momento y el enfoque apropiado...Starting at €8.20
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Raksul
Kominers, Scott Duke; Kotosaka, Masahiro; Sato, Nobuo; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-819115-EEntrepreneurshipRaksul, 2018 Forbes Japan "Startup of the Year," ran an e-commerce platform drawing upon thousands of individual suppliers. Launched as a business-to-business printing services marketplace, Raksul had recently expanded to operate both a logistics/delivery marketplace and a television advertising marketplace. Each marketplace faces its own growth challenges; at the same time, the CEO must consider whether and how each marketplace can enhance the o...Starting at €8.20
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Owen Barry: Coping with Brexit Stalemate - Teaching Note
Neil Bendle; Ramasastry ChandrasekharTeaching Note IVEY-8B20A061-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B20A061.Starting at €0.00
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Daily Bread Food Bank: The Adoption of Social Missions - Teaching Note
Neil Bendle; Wendy WangTeaching Note IVEY-8B20A052-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B20A052.Starting at €0.00
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The Alibaba Group and Online to Offline (O2O) Sales
Neil Bendle; Xin (Shane) Wang; Xiaoqian (Vivian) ChenCase IVEY-9B15A035-EMarketing, StrategyIn the fall of 2014, the Alibaba Group, an e-commerce company that operates domestic and international marketplaces and provides Internet-based services from its headquarters in Hangzhou, China, startled the world with its record-breaking initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s business plan differs from other major Internet companies such as Amazon and eBay by its strategies that are tailored to the particular circu...Starting at €8.20
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Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (B)
Trumbull, Gunnar; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-710018-EEconomicsAs the regulatory environment for consumer lending evolves, CFJ has to decide how to respond.Starting at €5.74
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Visa Inc. and the Global Payments Industry
Neil Bendle; Dan HorneCase IVEY-9B14A018-EMarketingA manager, preparing for an interview with Visa Inc., seeks to understand the nature of the global payments industry and Visa Inc.'s position within it. The case outlines the industry's history and current practice through extensive use of publicly reported information. The public information allows answers to some important questions. What does Visa Inc. do? How competitive is the industry? And what is the source of Visa Inc.'s competitive advan...Starting at €8.20
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Snap Inc.: Becoming a “Camera Company”
Neil Bendle; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B19A023-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn March 2018, Snap Inc. (Snap), based in Venice, California, and commonly known as Snapchat for its application that allowed users to send photos that disappeared, was looking for ways to grow its user base in the competitive social media platform industry and to differentiate itself from the other major platforms. To do this, it was trying to position itself as a “camera” company and to become relevant to a larger target market: adults aged 25 ...Starting at €8.20
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Pokémon Go: Virtual Invading Reality
Neil Bendle; Xiaoke XuCase IVEY-9B17A032-EMarketing, StrategyIn June 2016, the augmented reality game Pokémon GO quickly became one of the hottest topics in the world, changing both the online and offline behaviours of players. Pokémon GO was jointly developed by the San Francisco-based firm Niantic Inc. and The Pokémon Company, based in Japan, and was underwritten by the Japanese video game giant Nintendo. The game, which overlaid virtual items and creatures onto the physical world, allowed smartphone use...Starting at €8.20
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Kameda Seika: Cracking the US Market
Ofek, Elie; Sato, Nobuo; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-517095-EMarketingIn spring 2016, Kameda's CEO, Michiyasu Tanaka, is facing difficult questions from board members over the lackluster performance of the company's US subsidiary. Kameda was the leading player in the Japanese rice cracker market and was looking to expand overseas to achieve growth, with the vision of becoming a global food company. Starting in 2008, it had tried to market its best-selling product in Japan, Kakinotane, as well as other types of rice...Starting at €8.20