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Coley Andrews
Grousbekc, I; Rosenthal, SCaso SGSB-E567-EIniciativa emprendedoraColey Andrews could never have anticipated when he cofounded Pacific Lake Partners, a search fund investment firm, in 2009, that he would spend as much time managing people as he would the firm’s investment strategy. Pacific Lake had grown its portfolio to include 30 operating companies plus 30 active search funds in the six years since its launch, and Andrews interacted regularly with many of the CEOs, either as a board member or as an informal...Desde 8,20 €
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WalMart: Driving Innovation to Scale
Wilkinson, Amy; Nguyen HCaso SGSB-OB109-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIn 2014, Walmart was at an inflection point. The world’s largest company wasn’t sure how to evolve and innovate to win over the next 30 years. In a leadership change that year, Doug McMillon rose to become Walmart’s new CEO. Soon after, he hired Lori Flees, a Bain & Company partner, to lead Walmart’s Corporate Strategy and drive innovation at scale. Flees led Walmart’s acquisition of Jet.com for $3.3 billion and together with Jet founder Marc L...Desde 8,20 €
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Innovation at Caterpillar: The D7E Tractor
Carroll, G; Hoyt, DCaso SGSB-SM223-EDirección estratégicaIn 2009, Caterpillar shipped its first D7E tractor, an “electric drive” machine in which electric motors moved the tracks and blade, using electricity from a generator powered by a diesel engine. In an industry where new products provided performance gains of just a few percent, the D7E moved 10 percent more material per hour, using 10-30 percent less fuel that its predecessor. It was also easier to operate, had 40 percent fewer moving parts, a...Desde 8,20 €
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Quirky: A Business Based on Making Invention Accessible - Teaching note
Marks M; Hoyt DNota del Instructor SGSB-GS84TN-EServicios y operacionesBen Kaufman founded Quirky in 2009 to enable anyone with a product idea to access an online network of people to help evaluate and improve the idea, and potentially bring it to market. By the end of 2012, Quirky was shipping 74 products, and had many more in development. Its products were sold in 35,000 stores worldwide. Each week, the company took three products into the research and development process, out of more than 1,000 submitted onlin...Desde 0,00 €
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Quirky: A Business Based on Making Invention Accessible
Marks M; Hoyt DCaso SGSB-GS84-EServicios y operacionesBen Kaufman founded Quirky in 2009 to enable anyone with a product idea to access an online network of people to help evaluate and improve the idea, and potentially bring it to market. By the end of 2012, Quirky was shipping 74 products, and had many more in development. Its products were sold in 35,000 stores worldwide. Each week, the company took three products into the research and development process, out of more than 1,000 submitted onlin...Desde 8,20 €
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How Stories Drive Growth: HSN
Aaker, J; Schifrin, DCaso SGSB-M348B-EMarketingStories play an important role in business. They are a powerful tool for persuasion and useful in the context of understanding customers, building brands and leading teams. Set in 2014, the case explores how stories can drive the growth of a company, focusing on HSN Inc., the $3 billion interactive, multi-channel retailer. When Mindy Grossman became CEO of HSN in 2006, she had three major challenges: create a new story for a 30-year old company t...Desde 8,20 €
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BuildDirect: Constructing a Culture that can Weather the Storms
Sutton, R; Rao, H; Hinds, RCaso SGSB-E526-EIniciativa emprendedoraAfter a delayed shipment of flooring materials impeded Jeff Booth’s ability to complete a construction project on schedule, he, along with cofounder Robert Banks, was determined to solve the inefficiency of the heavyweight building supply industry. They founded BuildDirect, an e-commerce company based on a sophisticated technology platform that optimized the shipment of home improvement products. Since its founding in 1999, BuildDirect faced se...Desde 8,20 €
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Kirk Riedinger and Jamie Turner – Teaching Note
Grousbeck, H.I.; Dodson, DavidNota del Instructor SGSB-SB102TN-EIniciativa emprendedoraTeaching note for product SB102Desde 0,00 €
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Lighthouse
Grousbeck, HI; Rosenthal, SCaso SGSB-E628-EIniciativa emprendedoraJosie Sung and Greg McNamara founded Denver-based Lighthouse Systems in 2006 shortly after graduating from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2005. After exploring several ideas, they landed on a technology solution for helping large corporations better communicate with their customers. However, after running into a few roadblocks in the early days, the company pivoted as it learned more about its customers’ needs. Now, almost seven y...Desde 8,20 €
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Vaccine Vial Monitors: "The Little Big Thing:" Taking Social Innovation to Scale
Davis, S; Schifrin, DCaso SGSB-SI145-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Innovación y cambioIt is a major global health challenge to get life-saving vaccines to children in hard-to-reach parts of Africa and Asia. These vaccines must stay cool during transport, yet it is not always possible to prevent heat exposure. Historically, health workers had no means of determining whether such heat exposure had damaged the vaccines and caused them to lose potency. But Vaccine Vial Monitors, or VVMs, changed that. A VVM is a small temperature mon...Desde 8,20 €