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The Rise of Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Wells, John R.; Danskin, GalenCaso HBS-713401-EDirección estratégicaIn fiscal 2000, Circuit City was at the top of its game. The world's leading consumer electronics retailer had delivered record sales and profits for the first year of the new millennium. It was a fitting moment for Richard Sharpe, the CEO of the last 14 years, to step down. Over his tenure, revenues had increased 18 times and operating profits 13 times. In June 2000, Alan McCollough succeeded him as CEO. A 12 year veteran of Circuit City, McColl...Desde 8,20 €
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ASOS PLC
Wells, John R.; Ellsworth, GabrielCaso HBS-716449-EDirección estratégicaLaunched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world's largest online fashion specialists in 2016. Focusing on young consumers aged 16-25 years, the company offered over 80,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand new lines every week. Based in the United Kingdom, ASOS shipped products to 240 countries and territories, and international sales represented more than 50% of total revenues. But whe...Desde 8,20 €
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Gap, Inc., 2000
Wells, John R.; Danskin, GalenCaso HBS-713508-EDirección estratégica"From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, by 2000 Gap, Inc. had grown to become the world's leading specialist clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the ""merchant prince,"" was credited with transforming Gap into a global empire, leading the company through eighteen years of 21% p.a. growth to reach sales of $13.6 billion in 2000. Gap had expanded to 2,848 stores under its three brands: Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy, and cont...Desde 8,20 €
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Best Buy in Crisis
Wells, John R.; Danskin, GalenCaso HBS-713403-EDirección estratégicaIn June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing; however, 18 years later, Best Buy now found this position threatened. With $51 billion in revenues, it was still the biggest CE retailer, but sales were flat and profits had collapsed. Meanwhile, Amazon's sales in Best Buy's categories were growing at more than 50% p.a. and its total sales, at $48 billion, were ap...Desde 8,20 €
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Where's the (Sustainable) Beef? McDonald's Quest
Freeman, R. Edward; Langert, Bob; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0489-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaIn 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published "Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options," which, among other things, detailed the connection between livestock agriculture, particularly beef, and its adverse impact on the environment, including land, soil, and water degradation as well as the reduction of biodiversity. Raising livestock contributed, globally, to 18% of the world's greenhouse ...Desde 8,20 €
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Out for Blood: Tyler Shultz and Theranos (A)
Harris, Jared D.; Agle, Bradley R.; Mead, Jenny; Scoville, JimmyCaso DARDEN-E-0440-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaIn early 2014, recent Stanford University graduate Tyler Shultz was in a quandary. He had been working at Theranos, a blood-diagnostic company founded by Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford-dropout wunderkind, for almost a year. Shultz had learned enough about tDesde 8,20 €
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The e-Choupal Initiative
Horniman, Alexander B.; Venkataraman, S.; Thiemele, Anne-Laure; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0343-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaAn international corporation’s agricultural business division reviews its seven-year-old IT initiative among rural Indian farmers. Suitable for learners at all levels, the case is ideal for modules on strategic change, transformational change in a value chain, and development at the bottom of the pyramid. It also provides excellent insight into how corporations can improve both profits and lifestyles in developing nations while bolstering their w...Desde 8,20 €
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Bulb 2018: Rapid Growth
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCaso HBS-719442-EDirección estratégicaLaunch" (719-441). After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,127 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market. This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the founders, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, had imagined in August 2015 when they first launched. Bulb was now one of the top 12 energy suppliers in the UK. Gudka and Wood w...Desde 8,20 €