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McKesson Corporation: Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry
George Athanassakos; Woojin Lee; Andy Seo; Derek Kang; Ton BuiCase IVEY-9B20N017-EFinance, StrategyOn October 27, 2017, the share price of McKesson Corporation and two other major US pharmaceutical distributors dropped by 7–12 per cent over only a few days. The stock price drop was fuelled by reports that Amazon Inc. had quietly acquired wholesales phaStarting at €8.20
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The Rise and Rise (?) of Walmart (A): Battling Kmart
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Van Den Steen, Eric; Elterman, KarenCase HBS-718431-EStrategyThis case, set in 1990, describes the history of Walmart and asks what competitive strategies Kmart might adopt in response to Walmart's success. It discusses the strategy and organization of both companies in terms of HR practices, store location, distribution, information technology, procurement, pricing, and company culture. This (A) case is the first in a multi-part series that goes on to describe the results of Kmart's competition with Walma...Starting at €8.20
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Walmart Ecommerce (A): Picking up the Pace
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Elterman, KarenCase HBS-720425-EStrategyThis case is an abridged version (part 1 of 2) of "Walmart's Omnichannel Strategy: Revolution or Miscalculation?" HBS Case 720-370. The (A) case discusses Walmart's early forays into online retail, as well as improvements made under Doug McMillon beginning in 2014. The case describes Walmart's physical stores, delivery options, grocery business, online marketplace, and distribution system. It also discusses the ecommerce startup Jet.com, which Wa...Starting at €8.20
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Cinépolis S.A. de C.V. and KLIC: Rising to the Streaming Challenge
Francisco Gil-WhiteCase IVEY-9B19A010-EMarketing, StrategyCinépolis S.A. de C.V. (Cinépolis), an innovative private Mexican firm—and one of the largest movie theatre companies in the world—had developed an over-the-top (OTT) streaming product, KLIC, and launched it in Mexico. But by late 2017, the Mexican OTT market had become competitive and crowded, with Netflix, Claro Video, Blim, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, and others in the space. KLIC initially faced challenges with finding a proper niche and had ...Starting at €8.20
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AMC Networks Inc.: The Walking Dead Problem
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-9B18M203-EStrategyIn August 2017, AMC Networks Inc. (AMCN), a New York City–based cable television provider, faced a lawsuit from the creative talent behind the hit show The Walking Dead. The lawsuit charged that AMCN used its vertical integration into content development to reduce the profits available for distribution to participants. For AMCN, which was originally a content distributor, expanding into content creation through its AMC Studios had several benefit...Starting at €8.20
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Verily Life Sciences and Machine Learning
Schulman, Kevin A; Ho, KevinCase SGSB-SM335-EStrategyVerily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships with academic research institutions, legacy life sciences companies, and hospitals and health systems to develop tools to collect and organize health data, with the goal of creating platforms that utilized the insights from that data to enhance patient care. The case study discusses these...Starting at €8.20
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Profitability of On-Demand Food Delivery Businesses
Marks, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SM270-EStrategyBy 2017, pervasive mobile connectivity and the rise of the on-demand economy resulted in an explosion of businesses attempting to fulfill immediate consumer demand in the food delivery market. A broad, secular shift was occurring: Online or mobile orders were rapidly replacing the traditional method of picking up the phone to call in takeout and delivery orders. Still, concerns began to arise as market participants struggled to raise funding a...Starting at €8.20
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The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988-2016
Wells, John R.; Ellsworth, GabrielCase HBS-716426-EStrategyIn October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company's stock price dropped 10% on the news, the largest one-day decline since 1998. In February 2016, Walmart reported that revenues for 2015 had dropped 0.7% to $482.1 billion, the first decline in Wal...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2024)
Vroom, Govert; Isaac Sastre BoquetCase SM-1761-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe year 2023 was another remarkable one for Spotify. Once more, the company reported record figures in both revenue ($13.1 billion) and users, boasting 236 million premium subscribers and 602 million total monthly active users. However, 2023 was also remarkable in another sense, as the company marked a turning point. After years focused on what Daniel Ek had referred to as "growth, growth, growth," Spotify witnessed three rounds of layoffs over...Starting at €8.20