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TEC Edmonton and TusStar Joint Innovation: An Entrepreneurial Match
Haibo Hu; Chunbing Mao; Phillp Swallow; William Wei; Bruce Thomson; Meiju FeiCase IVEY-9B20M082-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2017, the successful Canadian innovation center TEC Edmonton initiated a joint venture with TusStar, an important Chinese accelerator, and found itself in the middle of a debate about the challenges and opportunities of Chinese investment in Canada’s technology sector. Both organizations were unique collaborations among industry, academia, and government. This joint initiative had added significance because of the implications for these stakeh...Starting at €8.20
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TEC Edmonton and TusStar Joint Innovation: An Entrepreneurial Match - Teaching Note
Haibo Hu; Chunbing Mao; Phillp Swallow; William Wei; Bruce ThomsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M082-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M082.Starting at €0.00
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JD.Com: Responding to a CEO Crisis
Lu Zhang; William Wei; Yanming Liao; Jieyan Song; Yi WuCase IVEY-9B20M018-EStrategyIn August 2018, the founder and chief executive officer of JD.com, one of China’s largest e-commerce sites, was accused of sexual assault and was arrested. He denied wrongdoing and was released less than a day later. One week after his return to China, JD.com’s share value hit a 19-month low. In November 2018, the company announced that its customer base had shrunk for the first time since 2014. The impact from the investigation into the alleged ...Starting at €8.20
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Rich-Con Steel
McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-699133-EService and Operations ManagementOne month after "going live" with a new information system, Rich-Con Steel is in crisis. The new system was intended to give the company basic visibility and control over its business processes, but instead, visibility and control appear to have evaporated. Marty Sawyer, Rich-Con's president, must decide what action to take.Starting at €8.20
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Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-606S16Service and Operations ManagementThe large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI project and must determine exactly how much software to buy. She must also plan the BI implementation throughout the company. After conferring with Business Objects, the BI applicat...Starting at €8.20
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Dubai Ports Authority (A) (Spanish Version)
McAfee, Andrew; Ooms-Wall, Karen; Al Qasimi, LubnaCase HBS-608S08Service and Operations ManagementLos Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) desea digitalizar muchos de los documentos que comparte con sus socios externos, incluyendo el envío de líneas y agentes, comerciantes y autoridades aduaneras del país. DPA también desea automatizar las muchas transmisiones de documentos relacionados con manifiestos de embarque. En el momento de la causa, la industria del transporte marítimo en todo el mundo se caracteriza por bajos niveles de automatización, la pr...Starting at €8.20
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Prediction Markets at Google (Spanish version)
Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-612S12Information TechnologiesIn its eight quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market, and how to best use its predictions.Starting at €8.20
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Moore Medical Corp. (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Bounds, GregoryCase HBS-606S13Service and Operations ManagementMoore Medical is a medium-sized distributor of medical supplies to practitioners, such as podiatrists and emergency medical technicians. At the time of the case, it has relied on traditional customer channels such as catalogs, phones, and faxes to communicate product offerings, promotions, and availability, and to take orders. It is now attempting to shift to a "bricks and clicks" distributor with a strong Internet presence. It has already made s...Starting at €8.20
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New Approaches to Old Problems: Expanding the Universe of Interpersonal Ties with Emerging Internet Applications
McAfee, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-5576BC-EWith the advent of Internet connectivity, the tendency to focus only on strongly tied colleagues within enterprises has given way to a broader and more useful perspective. The ability to form, maintain, and exploit more casual ties, and the ability to convert potential ties into actual ones are hugely valuable assets, both to individuals and to the enterprises in which they work. Indeed, many analysts have found that the greatest value of the Web...Starting at €8.20
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Uniquely Valuable: The Benefits of Adopting Web 2.0 Tools for Organizations
McAfee, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-5577BC-EWhat do proliferating social networking applications have to do with the way a business runs? A lot more than you might imagine. Indeed, emergent social software platforms (ESSPs) provide valuable capabilities that are nearly impossible to acquire without them-unique Enterprise 2.0 benefits. In this chapter Andrew McAfee lays out six powerful benefits of using ESSPs in organizations: group editing, authoring, broadcast search, network formation a...Starting at €8.20