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Brasil Foods (Spanish version)
Bell, David E.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-514S04StrategyA mediados de 2011, la gestión de Brasil Foods, un brasileño que lleva la marca de alimentos productor y exportador de proteínas, está evaluando estrategias para el crecimiento internacional y nacional. El equipo acaba de recibir la aprobación de las autoridades antimonopolio de Brasil para completar la fusión de Perdigao y Sadia, los dos productores de alimentos masivas que se habían combinado para formar Brasil Foods en 2009. Ahora, el equipo e...Starting at €8.20
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La-Z-Boy (A) (Spanish Version)
Fuller, Joseph B.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-317S09StrategyKurt Darrow, CEO de muebles La-Z-Boy, debe decidir si desea continuar una revisión de la estrategia de la compañía en la cara de un colapso de la demanda durante la gran recesión. Tener cartera de marcas y red de fabricación posterior pelado de La-Z-Boy, tiene la intención de cambiar la posición de la compañía como una marca minorista de muebles y modas. dirección sólo está a punto de poner en práctica una nueva estrategia que implica una fuerte ...Starting at €8.20
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care
Huckman, Robert S.; Porter, Michael E.; Gordon, Rachel; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-609016-EStrategyDescribes the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a multidisciplinary unit that offers patients suffering from spinal problems "one-stop" access to a range of providers including orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, medical specialists in physical medicine and pain management, mental health providers, and occupational and physical therapists. The Center was created to address what its founder, James Weinstein, M.D., s...Starting at €8.20
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Rumo: Infrastructure for a Healthier Economy
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Cal, Mariana; Costas, Ruth; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-720008-EStrategyBrazilian logistics company Rumo operated 13,500 km in railway networks, port terminals, and inland transshipment terminals, connecting major Brazilian ports to the agriculture hubs of Mato Grosso and S o Paulo state. Controlled by Cosan, Brazil's leading sugar and ethanol producer, Rumo had been through a turnaround over the last 3 years, including heavy investment in operational improvements, financial deleverage, and taking cash flow generati...Starting at €8.20
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Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)
George, Bill; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-411009-ELeadership and People ManagementDaniel Kim was considering blowing the whistle on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing start-up where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two 25-year-old founders) working from a one-bedroom Minneapolis apartment. By 2008, when the venture capital-backed company recorded $110 million in revenues, Kim had become close friend...Starting at €8.20
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Shanghai Pharmaceuticals
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-313016-EStrategyShanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company-essentially a collection of subsidiaries operating under a unified management structure-was formed through the 2009 merger of several state-owned enterprises, part of a broad policy effort in China to streamline state assets, ...Starting at €8.20
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La-Z-Boy (A)
Fuller, Joseph B.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-317034-EStrategyKurt Darrow, CEO of La-Z-Boy furniture, must decide whether to continue an overhaul of the company's strategy in the face of a collapse in demand during the great recession. Having pared back La-Z-Boy's portfolio of brands and manufacturing network, he intends to reposition the company as a branded retailer of furniture and home fashions. Just management is poised to implement a new strategy that involves a heavy investment in brand advertising, ...Starting at €8.20
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Brasil Foods
Bell, David E.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-512013-EStrategyIn mid-2011, the management of Brasil Foods, a leading Brazilian branded foods producer and protein exporter, is evaluating strategies for international and domestic growth. The team has just received approval from Brazil's antitrust authorities to complete the merger of Perdigao and Sadia, the two massive food producers that had combined to form Brasil Foods in 2009. Now, the team is free to focus on their ambitious plan to double revenues by 20...Starting at €8.20
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Henkel: Building a Winning Culture (B)
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-115040-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case, an update on "Henkel: Building a Winning Culture (A)," describes Henkel's strong performance against its tough 2012 objectives, as well as the new objectives CEO Kasper Rorsted set for 2016.Starting at €5.74
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Managing Vioxx (A) (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Rosenberg, Kathryn; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-111S02Strategy(B) evidence of life-threatening side effects, (C) decision options, (D) announcement to withdraw Vioxx, (E) reaction by patients, shareholders, media, and regulators, (F) Merck fights back, and (G) wrap-up. At the end of the case series, students may conclude that doing the right thing sometimes requires very hard choices.Starting at €8.20