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Amazon y mybabyallergy.com: Decisiones de e-commerce para una start-up
Jané, JoanCase P-1172Decision Analysis, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyLa entrada en Amazon suele actuar como un auténtico revulsivo para el negocio de cualquier empresa, ya que las ventas tienden a dispararse. Pero también es verdad que implica contrapartidas que no se pueden pasar por alto. Amazon, líder indiscutible en la venta online de todo tipo de productos, se ha convertido en una plataforma única para el posicionamiento y el desarrollo comercial de miles de compañías. Especialmente, para las de menor tamaño,...Starting at €8.20
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Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-606S16Service and Operations ManagementThe large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI project and must determine exactly how much software to buy. She must also plan the BI implementation throughout the company. After conferring with Business Objects, the BI applicat...Starting at €8.20
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Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker (A) (Spanish version)
Snow, Daniel C.; Wheelwright, Steven C.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-607S43Service and Operations ManagementScharffen Berger, a premium brand chocolate, is growing rapidly and must decide where and when to add capacity in the production line and with what technology. The company must consider the demands of marketing, the impact on quality and reputation, and the economics of alternative approaches to increasing output in both the short term and long term. Provides an opportunity for students to examine the existing process technology and flow, to unde...Starting at €8.20
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Keeping Google "Googley" (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; Thomas, David A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-409S03EntrepreneurshipThis case, set in 2008, examines how Google has worked to avoid potential negative byproducts of rapid growth such as bureaucracy, slow decision-making, lack of visibility, and organizational inconsistency. When the case protagonist, Kim Scott, started with Google in 2004, she wondered if she would still be there in several years as she liked small, entrepreneurial companies. In 2008, she was pleased that Google still had the same entrepreneurial...Starting at €8.20
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S&P Indices and the Indexing Business in 2012
Viceira, Luis M.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-213049-EFinanceIn June 2012, Standard & Poor's Indices is finalizing a deal with the CME Group, the largest global exchange for futures and options and majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes, to combine their respective indices business into a new joint venture called S&P Dow Jones Indices. This case discusses the index provider business model through the lenses of this transaction: sources of revenue and profitability, business valuation, uses of indexes in the m...Starting at €8.20
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Nanosolar, Inc.
Steenburgh, Thomas; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-510037-EMarketingNanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology is less efficient in producing electricity than polysilicone, it is much less costly too. As it is about to enter the market, Nanosolar is facing the decision on which market to enter. Should it attempt to go into the Europea...Starting at €8.20
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Ocean Tomo: Building a Market for Intellectual Property
Hagiu, Andrei; Coles, Peter A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-709404-EStrategyOcean Tomo's management team sought to turn the company into the leading intermediary for intellectual property. Despite its increasingly important role in the global marketplace, IP remained a notoriously illiquid asset--difficult to value, harder to trade, and often underutilized by owners. CEO Jim Malackowski and his colleagues hoped to capitalize on this inefficiency by designing and operating innovative marketplaces for intellectual property...Starting at €8.20
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Intellectual Ventures
Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David B.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-710423-EStrategyIntellectual Ventures creates and acquires intellectual property, which it then seeks to monetize through non-exclusive licensing. In early 2009, as an increasing number of companies were trying to position themselves as leading intermediaries in the market for intellectual property, IV was looking for the best business model to become such a leading intermediary. Its model was predicated on making it easy for small inventors to monetize their in...Starting at €8.20
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La cadena de suministro de NIKE en la nueva era digital
Jané, Joan; Ferrinha, PedroCase P-1199Service and Operations ManagementPese a su éxito en las operaciones de la cadena de suministro a través de los canales mayorista y minorista físico, NIKE quiere rediseñar la estrategia de su red logística para alcanzar el crecimiento esperado de los ingresos digitales. Un nuevo programa llamado NIKE Digital First Supply Chain aspira a preparar y entregar los pedidos a los clientes online directos en un plazo de dos días en toda Europa. Carlos Bermejo, director sénior de Programa...Starting at €8.20
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Starship SpaceX: The Disruption in the Space Value Chain
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX was established in 2002 to fulfill founder, CEO and chief engineer Ellon Musk's heady plan to colonize Mars. Starship aimed to be a "Mars colonial transporter" or, more formally, an "interplanetary transport system" both in ease of access and affordability, and designed to be "aircraft-like" from the specification and operational standpoints to maximize the vehicle's utilization rate of launching kilotons of payloads into orbit per year. S...Starting at €8.20