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Barman: The Amazon Opportunity
Javier Pijoan; Villanueva, Julian; Balmaseda, CarmenCase M-1383-EInnovation and Change, Marketing, StrategyBarman was one of the four leading players in the spirits industry. Due to the pressure of sales and objectives, the commercial directors of some countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, or Germany, had decided to establish business relationships with the prominent e-commerce clients, among others, Amazon. The result was a boost in sales in the last two years. Spain, however, had not entered Amazon until then. In the last business review with...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon and mybabyallergy.com: E-commerce Decisions for a Retail Start-Up
Jané, JoanCase P-1172-EDecision Analysis, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyGoing on Amazon usually acts as a real spur for any firm's business, since sales tend to shoot up. But it is also true that it involves downsides that cannot be overlooked. Amazon, the undisputed leader in online sales of all kinds of products, has become a unique platform for the positioning and sales development of thousands of companies-especially for smaller firms, with a shorter track record or fewer resources available to promote their prod...Starting at €8.20
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Rocket Internet: Rise of the German Silicon Valley
Bryan Hong; Dave TangCase IVEY-9B15M098-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyRocket Internet, a unique technology incubator based in Germany, invests in and develops startups in Europe and emerging markets that are versions of successful technology firms primarily located in the United States, such as eBay, Zappos, Amazon and Groupon. Fundamentally, the company seeks to reduce the uncertainty of entrepreneurial startup ventures by imitating proven business models and replicating them in other geographic regions. Rocket In...Starting at €8.20
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Oakberry: The Gracia Store Decision
Soler, Edi; Eduardo Bork AlvoCase ASN-90-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn December 2019, just two days before his final MBA exams, Edison was contemplating if he should become a shareholder of an Oakberry franchise store in Barcelona. Oakberry was a one-product fast food chain specialized in healthy and natural drinks based on frozen açaí, a unique fruit from an Amazon palm tree. Three years after its launch in Brazil, the chain had more than 200 stores worldwide. He believed this entrepreneurial experience could be...Starting at €8.20
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Random House: Shifting to E-Books in a Globalized World
Sarah Bickert; Volker Diestegge; Thorsten Knauer; Katja Möslang; Andrea Schroer; Friedrich SommerCase IVEY-9B13M083-EStrategyThe publisher Random House, a fully owned subsidiary of the German family company Bertelsmann SE & Co. KgaA, faces significant changes in its markets and internal structure. While printed books have been the company’s core competence from its earliest years, with the advent of the Internet, customers, especially in the West, are beginning to prefer electronic books. Will printed books be completely replaced by digital ones, or will e-books remain...Starting at €8.20
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Deutsche Telekom 2020: Leading The Digital Transformation
Burgelman, Robert; Sutherland, MargotCase SGSB-SM337-EStrategyTim Höttges was at the outset of his seventh year as CEO of Deutsche Telekom (DT) in 2020. The company served more than 184 million mobile customers and had a presence in over 50 countries. Over the course of the previous 7 years, European telecommunication companies had experienced varying degrees of success. Revenues for telecommunication companies in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain as a whole fell by 14 percent from 2012-2019, while DT’s re...Starting at €8.20