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IESE Insight. Issue 15. Fourth Quarter 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-36-EAccounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyClaus Rerup (Richard Ivey School of Business) presents a framework for companies to improve their capability to pick up on signals that impending crises give off before they happen. The corporate communications consultant Alfonso González-Herrero looks at the key issues that companies must address, with forecasting and planning, in order to safeguard their reputations. IESE's José R. Pin provides a guide to help managers lead and communicate, so ...Starting at €22.00
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Kyrö Distillery Company: Brutally Finnish in Japan
Miikka J. Lehtonen, Arto Lindblom, Gene ThompsonCase IVEY-W34817-EMarketing, StrategyKyrö Distillery Company (Kyrö), founded in 2012 in Isokyrö, Finland, focused on producing rye whisky from Finnish rye. However, it took an average of three years for one batch of whisky to be produced and ready for sale, so, to cover their costs and stay afloat, the founders decided to start producing gin, which could be produced faster. As luck had it, in 2014, Kyrö’s rye-based Napue Gin was named the best gin in the gin-and-tonic category in th...Starting at €8.20
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F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market, Teaching Note
Austin, Robert D.; Applegate, Lynda M.; Lyytinen, Kalle; Penttinen, Esko; Saarinen, TimoTeaching Note HBS-809151-EMarketingTeaching Note for [809099].Starting at €0.00
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IESE Insight. Issue 10. Third Quarter 2011
IESE InsightMagazine REV-10-EEconomics, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyMauro F. Guillén and Esteban García-Canal highlight what managers of traditional, established MNCs can learn from their emerging market counterparts. Arnoud De Meyer considers the global innovation trends that have been heavily influenced by China, India and Southeast Asia. Francesc Prior and Javier Santomá take lessons from the banking sector to help all companies adapt their offer to the customers and circumstances of low-income segments. Alici...Starting at €22.00
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Angry Birds
Gupta, Sunil; Rood, DharmishtaCase HBS-512033-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Within months of its launch in December 2009, Angry Birds, a mobile game created by a small Finnish company, Rovio Entertainment Ltd., became an international hit. By late 2011, Rovio was not only making Angry Birds games for the iPhone, Android and other mobile platforms, but it had also expanded into plush toys, cookbooks, animation videos and licensing arrangement with ma...Starting at €8.20
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Vertu: Nokia’s Luxury Mobile Phone for the Urban Rich
Ken Kwong-Kay WongCase IVEY-9B11A040-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyNokia, headquartered in Finland, was a global telecommunications equipment manufacturer. It operated Vertu, a luxury mobile phone brand that had pioneered the luxury mobile phone market in the late 1990s by using precious materials such as diamonds, sapphires, titanium, and exotic leather for phone production. The company had enjoyed impressive growth in almost 70 countries and had sold hundreds of thousands of phones in the eight years since its...Starting at €8.20
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Vertu: Last Call for British Luxury Mobile Phone Maker
Margaret Osborne; Ken Kwong-Kay WongCase IVEY-9B19A005-EMarketing, StrategyVertu Corporation Limited (Vertu), a manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones, was founded as a subsidiary of Nokia in 2000. It was later acquired by a Swedish private equity firm in 2012, and then sold to Godin Holdings in 2015. Despite these multiple corporate ownership transitions, Vertu had remained uniquely positioned, differentiated by its phones’ bejewelled embellishments and a worldwide concierge service available at the touch of...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Número 10. Tercer trimestre 2011
IESE InsightMagazine REV-10Economics, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyHoy, las empresas que piensan en internacionalizarse, innovar y crecer tienen muy claro que deben dirigirse a los mercados que llamábamos emergentes, y que ahora se conocen como de alto crecimiento. Pero las realidades de estos mercados ya no son como hace una década. Los artículos de este número de IESE Insight apuntan algunos aspectos que las empresas harían bien en tener en cuenta. Mauro F. Guillen y Esteban García-Canal repasan la...Starting at €22.00
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IESE Insight. Número 15. Cuarto trimestre 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-36Accounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyLas crisis golpean a cualquier empresa en el momento menos esperado, por lo que deben integrarse como un elemento más de la gestión diaria de la empresa. El número 15 de la revista IESE Insight repasa algunos aspectos clave para que la empresa esté a la altura de las circunstancias. Antes de que estalle una crisis, hay que estar atento a los indicios previos, ya que eso condicionará la capacidad de respuesta de la empresa. Claus Rerup prop...Starting at €22.00