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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2019)
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1685-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyIn early 2019, Spotify announced an operating profit of $94 million for the fourth quarter of 2018. The world's largest streaming company was approaching profitability for the first time, after a decade of massive losses. Previously a staggering increase in revenue, which exceeded $5 billion at the end of 2018, had failed to get it out of the red. By the late 2010s, streaming had become the way to consume music, fueling the first global sustained...Starting at €8.20
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Sustaining Competitive Advantage: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-679-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementIn "Value Creation & Capture", we discussed how firms gain competitive advantage and create value by making choices and trade-offs, allowing them to capture more value than rivals, and hence, generate greater profit. This note focuses on the internal analysis of a firm, concentrating on how a firm can combat imitation by utilizing its unique resources, capabilities, and core competencies. This resource-based approach emphasizes that the key to pr...Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note will discuss some of the main strategies firms employ in close competition with other firms and how game theory can be used to help shape a firm's competitive strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la presente nota técnica se comentarán algunas de las principales estrategias que emplean las compañías con una gran rivalidad con otras empresas y cómo la teoría de juegos se puede utilizar para dar forma a la estrategia competitiva de las organizaciones.Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2018) - Teaching Note: Seeking Profitability
Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Vroom, GovertTeaching Note SMT-119-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategySpotify reached $3 billion in revenues in 2016, amid a booming music-streaming market that now made up 51% of the U.S. music industry's total revenues. Finally the industry had embraced digitization and was now seeing two-digit growth for the first time in decades. However, that growth had an Achilles' heel. Spotify itself was staring at an operating loss of $350 million, having never been able to post a profit in all its years of existence. Now,...Starting at €0.00
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New Immuno-Oncology Solutions (NIOS): Aligning Stakeholders in the Biotech Industry
Vroom, Govert; Maribel Berges; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1701-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis case focuses on a small biotech company (NIOS), located in Barcelona, Spain, that is developing a new immune-oncology product for treating pancreatic cancer. The drug that the company is developing has recently finished Phase I of clinical trials successfully and is now preparing for Phase II and III. At this point, the CEO is approached by her former PhD director, a university professor, who asks if the company is interested in licensing a ...Starting at €8.20
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La diversificación de los modelos de negocio: cómo lograr que múltiples modelos funcionen en su empresa
Sohl, Timo; Vroom, Govert; McCann, Brian T.Article HDBR-10Innovation and ChangePara ser más competitivas y poder adaptarse a los cambios del mercado, cada vez son más las empresas que optan por operar con varios modelos de negocio a la vez. En la mayoría de casos, se sigue empleando el modelo original y se adopta un modelo nuevo, disruptivo, de forma paralela. Para minimizar los obstáculos que presenta este proceso, es importante saber que adoptar modelos que no tienen relación entre sí es más complicado que adoptar modelos...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: cara a cara con la música (actualización del 2019)
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1685Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyA principios de 2019, Spotify anunció que había tenido unos beneficios operativos de 94 millones de dólares en el cuarto trimestre de 2018. La empresa de streaming más importante del mundo se acercaba por primera vez a la rentabilidad tras diez años de pérdidas enormes. Pero, a pesar del asombroso aumento de sus ingresos, que superaban los 5.000 millones de dólares al final de 2018, no había conseguido salir de los números rojos. A finales de la ...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: cara a cara con la música (actualización del 2018): En busca de la rentabilidad
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1657Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategySpotify alcanzó los 3.000 millones de dólares en ingresos en 2016, en medio de un floreciente mercado de la música en streaming que ahora representaba el 51% de los ingresos totales de la industria musical en Estados Unidos. Finalmente el sector había adoptado la digitalización y ahora experimentaba un crecimiento superior al 10% por primera vez en décadas. Sin embargo, ese crecimiento tenía un punto débil: la propia Spotify se enfrentaba a unas ...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2018): Seeking Profitability
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1657-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategySpotify reached $3 billion in revenues in 2016, amid a booming music-streaming market that now made up 51% of the U.S. music industry's total revenues. Finally the industry had embraced digitization and was now seeing two-digit growth for the first time in decades. However, that growth had an Achilles' heel. Spotify itself was staring at an operating loss of $350 million, having never been able to post a profit in all its years of existence. Now,...Starting at €8.20