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Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Spanish version)
Friedman, Stewart D.Article HBS-R0804HLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Work fills most executives' lives to the brim, leaving insufficient time for their families, their communities, and themselves. But Wharton professor Friedman suggests that, rather than view the problem as a set of trade-offs, executives use their leadership talen...Starting at €8.20
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Samsung Electronics (Spanish version)
Siegel, Jordan; Chang, James JinhoCase HBS-707S09StrategyWhen is it possible to create a dual advantage of being both low cost and differentiated? In this case, students assess whether Samsung Electronics has been able to achieve such a dual advantage, and if so, how this was possible. Moreover, Samsung Electronics' long-held competitive advantage is under renewed attack. Students also can assess how Samsung should respond to large-scale Chinese entry into its industry.Starting at €8.20
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Transformación de Corea Inc.: crisis financiera y reforma institucional
Alfaro, Laura; Kim, ReneeCase HBS-714S13EconomicsCorea del Sur, como una de las economías asiáticas "tigres", se transformó en el 11 del mundo y la mayor economía de los principales exportadores en 1996, emergiendo de ser uno de los países de ingresos más bajos de la región de la espalda en la década de 1960. Sin embargo, un año después, en 1997, Corea fue arrastrado por la crisis financiera asiática y buscó un récord de $ 58 mil millones de rescate del Fondo Monetario Internacional. La crisis ...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A) (Spanish version)
Alcacer, Juan; Herman, KerryCase HBS-716S16Service and Operations ManagementIn mid-2005, Intel is examining its options for where to locate its next assembly and test plant. On its short list of potential sites includes locations in China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each country has its own unique benefits and risks related to infrastructure, governance, education, business culture, intellectual property protection, labor markets, experience working with Western firms, and tax breaks and other incentives. Intel's Gene...Starting at €8.20
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Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network (Spanish version)
Gupta, Sunil; Han, SangmanCase HBS-510S22MarketingIn May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network company in Korea, had to decide how to create and capture value from his rapidly growing user base. Cyworld was founded in 1999 and in 2003 it was acquired by SK Telecom, a leading mobile service provider in Korea. By 2007, Cyworld had 21 million users and $95 million revenue--$65 million from paid items (music, virtual gifts, etc.), $15 million from mobile networking, and $15 million from adv...Starting at €8.20
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Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony
Bell, David E.; Milder, Brian; Shelman, Mary L.Case HBS-508001-EMarketingVegpro, a horticulture company, is Kenya's largest exporter of fresh vegetables and flowers to top supermarkets in the U.K. and Europe. In 2007, Vegpro's business is threatened by growing consumer concern about the environmental impact of food production and transport, including "food miles". The case describes the company's growth, which includes the use of owned land and outgrowers for production, the addition of value-added processing to obtai...Starting at €8.20
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Bose Corporation: Communication Strategy for Challenging Apple's Beats by Dr. Dre
Dolan, Robert J.Case HBS-518036-EMarketingWhen a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees in Thailand. Documents the challenges the company faced in the first ten hours of the crisis. Amid the uncertainty of those first hours, the leadership team must make a range of decisions to orchestrate the company's response and manage the rest of its business. D...Starting at €8.20
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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Upton, David M.; Kim, BowonCase HBS-609018-EService and Operations ManagementExplores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new Chinese competitors. Without outsourcing some of its work to China, DSHM would become uncompetitive. However, in outsourcing the work, some skills would necessarily have to be transf...Starting at €8.20
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KT Corporation in the New Energy Market
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Lau, DawnCase HBS-718051-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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TNT Ltd.'s Logistics Services in Asia (A): The Strategy
Yoshino, Michael Y.; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-397017-EEconomicsMeredith Hellicar's mission as general manager of corporate development is to make TNT Ltd. one of the biggest and most diverse transport and logistic companies in the world, with approximately $5 billion in turnover in 1993, a leading provider of logistics services in Asia. The case describes the approach she used to rank countries and select China and Thailand as priority markets. She has just presented her recommendation to the board when a ma...Starting at €8.20