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Amazon Buys Whole Foods
Alvarez, Jose B.; Lane, David; Coughlin, JoniCase HBS-518056-EService and Operations ManagementThe June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7 billion for organic supermarket chain Whole Foods precipitated a broad sell-off in the shares of grocery retailers and suppliers. Behind the precipitous declines lay recognition that Amazon's bold move into brick and mortar assets offered transformational opportunities. Amazon could gain expertise in perishable product sales and procurement, plus access to 30 million well-off shoppe...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon: Balancing Customer Centricity with Employee Engagement
Tatge, Larisa; Lago, Alejandro; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1165-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementAmazon defines itself as the most customer-centered company in the world and explains its growth in various sectors as a way to offer more value to its customers. "Our vision is to be earth's most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online," according to Amazon's mission statement. This case presents how Amazon has grown quickly, and how it aims to balance this rapi...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon vs. Walmart: Using Financial Ratios to Compare Companies
Mitchell Stein; Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Vineet YagnikCase IVEY-W36678-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn 2021, an investment management firm analyst needed to convince his portfolio manager that technology companies such as Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon) could have a strong investment thesis since they improved upon existing business models. To make his argument, he used financial ratio analysis to compare one of the portfolio manager's favourite companies, Walmart Inc. (Walmart), with a more technologically focused competitor in the retail space, Amaz...Starting at €8.20
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McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain-From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs, Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.Teaching Note HBS-616021-EService and Operations ManagementThis case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier was purchasing soya (soybeans for chicken feed) that were grown on recently deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. Although its supply chain purchased a very small amount of this c...Starting at €0.00
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Amazon.com: Supply Chain Management
P. Fraser Johnson; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B18D017-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementBy early 2018, Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon), one of the world’s most valuable companies and the largest online retailer in the world, had grown dramatically since its beginnings in 1994. The company that had started as an online bookseller now sStarting at €8.20
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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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Whole Foods and JANA Partners
Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, QuinnCase HBS-118076-EFinanceIn 2017, JANA Partners decided to launch an activist campaign at struggling supermarket chain Whole Foods Market. The company had struggled for the past several years, and JANA thought the presence of new directors could help turn around its operations, while Whole Foods resisted, adding new directors and announcing ambitious new financial targets. Facing continued pressure from JANA despite the new changes, Whole Foods accepted an acquisition of...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20
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DropBox - Series B Financing
Strebulaev, I; Foroughi, J; GouwCase SGSB-F309-EFinanceIn mid-2011, as global markets corrected amid worldwide economic uncertainty, Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the fast-growing file synchronization and sharing company, found himself in a difficult, albeit enviable, situation. Houston, who had already raised over $7 million through two rounds of venture funding (one seed round and a Series A round) and developed a large and growing user base, began receiving significant investor int...Starting at €8.20