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Edelnor (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Siegel, JordanTeaching Note HBS-707550-EStrategyTeaching note to 707473 and 707530.Starting at €0.00
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CFR Pharmaceuticals: Potential Synergies in Africa
Charlene C. LewCase IVEY-9B14C049-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe third-generation leader of CFR Pharmaceuticals had been successful in executing a strategy of consolidating pharmaceutical firms across Latin America. As part of the company’s expansion strategy, the CEO explored opportunities to develop multiple sources of growth and expand CFR Pharmaceutical’s footprint in emerging markets; to do this, he found a company in South Africa, Adcock Ingram, to acquire. The combined company would offer CFR produc...Starting at €8.20
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Lisco Acquisition of a Minority Interest of Orion
Richard Howard; Kimberley HowardCase IVEY-9B13N008-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyA wealth management company in Chile that provided financial advisory services to high net worth individuals and pension funds was at a crossroads. After 15 years in business, the company had become very successful. To increase its value without incurring undue corporate financial risk, the owner, who has invested most of his personal wealth in the company, has the opportunity to make an investment in a similar wealth management company in Colomb...Starting at €8.20
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Empresas La Polar, S.A. (B)
Edward Waltzer; Matko KoljaticCase IVEY-9B16C033-ELeadership and People Management, StrategySupplement for product 9B16C032.Starting at €5.74
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WholeMeaning Inc. - Making your Strategic Bet
CROUTHAMEL, MICHELLE; DIAZ-MOLINA, IVAN; Sorich, DavidCase ESE-ES-C-ES-20-363-EStrategyThe case describes a technology start-up and its difficulties to define a product and a successful business model. It describes the struggle the founders went through in trying to harness the unlimited applications of NLP into a specific product.Starting at €8.20
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Lumni Inc.: Improving Society In A Sustainable Way
Luis Felipe Martí Borbolla; José Alfredo Walls Gómez; June CotteCase IVEY-9B18M011-EStrategyIn June 2017, a journalist was preparing a major news story about Lumni Inc. (Lumni), a company that he wanted to profile in the next issue of his Mexico City–based magazine. Lumni's mission was essentially a social one: to improve the conditions, access, and quality of higher education for young students, especially in Latin America. However, although its mission was originally non-profit, Lumni was not considered a non-governmental organization...Starting at €8.20
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When One Business Model Isn't Enough
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Tarzijan, JorgeArticle HBS-R1201M-EStrategyTrying to operate two business models at once often causes strategic failure. Yet LAN Airlines, a Chilean carrier, runs three models successfully. Casadesus-Masanell, of Harvard Business School, and Tarzijan, of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, explore how LAN has integrated a full-service international passenger model with a premium air-cargo business model while separately operating a no-frills passenger model for domestic flights....Starting at €8.20
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Edelnor (A)
Siegel, JordanCase HBS-707473-EStrategyFernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he purchased a Chilean electricity generation and transmission company called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent within months. del Sol had six months to restructure the company before it would become completely insolvent, and his headache was compounded by the fact that the process for company...Starting at €8.20
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Arauco (B): "Papel" in Brazil
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Tarzijan, Jorge; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-709416-EStrategyThis is Part B to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills and a paper mill. The case acts as an epilogue and allows students to revisit the concept of forward integration into paper in the Brazilian context.Starting at €5.74
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Two Ways to Fly South: Lan Airlines and Southwest Airlines, Teaching Note
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Tarzijan, Jorge; Mitchell, JordanTeaching Note HBS-710422-EStrategyTeaching Note for 707414.Starting at €0.00