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Spotify: Face the Music - Teaching Note
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-104-EStrategyStarting at €0.00
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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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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2016) - Teaching Note: Facing Increased Competition
Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Vroom, GovertTeaching Note SMT-112-EStrategyThe case describes the business model of the music streaming company Spotify, setting it against the backdrop of a music industry that had faced steep revenue declines since the advent of digital formats in the late 1990s and the rise of illegal file sharing. The case also presents the competition Spotify faces from the likes of Pandora, Google and Apple and asks whether Spotify has a viable long-term business model despite its explosive user and...Starting at €0.00
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Tramsa Mobility on the Ropes: Dealing with a Cyberattack - Teaching Note
Valor Sabatier, Josep; Zamora, Javier; Pérez Balaguer, Jesús; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SIT-26-EIn summer 2020, Tramsa Mobility, a Spanish transportation carrier that operated several concession contracts from the administration, was victim of a ransomware attack that seriously threatened the ability of the company to operate the thousands of buses that gave service to some of the largest cities in the country. The case, broken up in three different parts, describes how the company dealt with the crisis, with new challenges and difficultie...Starting at €0.00
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Bodegas PRADOREY: Keys to the future of a family business in the winemaking industry - teaching note
Elvira, Marta; Proaño Vicente, Ángel; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-142-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2022, after several tough years turning the company around, Bodegas PRADOREY was finally looking towards the future. Founded in 1989, this family-owned winery had become an important winemaker within Ribera del Duero, one of Spain's Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) winemaking regions. But PRADOREY's road had not been an easy one. The winery had gone through difficult times in the 2010s, which could easily have ended the company. Thanks to...Starting at €0.00
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Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts: cambio de paradigma - Nota del instructor
Tàpies, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-126Decision Analysis, StrategyEn 2016, el equipo directivo de Borges International, uno de los grupos líderes en la elaboración y distribución de productos de dieta mediterránea, continuaba dando pasos en su nueva estrategia para la filial de frutos secos. Esta estrategia iba a comportar un total cambio total de paradigma en esa división, una de las más importantes dentro del holding. El crecimiento del consumo de productos de almendra, particularmente en los emergentes merca...Starting at €0.00
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DKV Group: Truly Interested in You - Teaching Note
Oliver, Xavier; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note MT-41-EKnowledge and Communication, Marketing, StrategyThe case describes the strategy of management through reputation that the DKV Group has been using in the Spanish market. This management strategy has helped the company establish a unique competitive positioning in the crowded health insurance industry and delivered some of the best growth rates in the market during the previous few years. With the help of exhaustive data, the case explains how this management style was developed and implemented...Starting at €0.00
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Restoring Japan: Abenomics - Teaching Note
Mas, Núria; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note ECONT-12-EEconomicsThe case presents Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose economic policies, nicknamed "Abenomics," aim to remedy the economic malaise Japan has suffered since the 1990s. The case then jumps back to that era and describes the circumstances that surrounded the beginning of this "lost decade" and the actions of the Japanese authorities of the time in response to it. Those actions failed to prevent stagnation, which has plagued the Japanese economy ever si...Starting at €0.00
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FC Barcelona: More Than a Club, More Than Data - Teaching Note
Zamora, Javier; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SIT-25-EInformation TechnologiesBy the late 2010s, FC Barcelona had become one of the most important sports clubs in the world, whose success on the field was accompanied by an income that had grown in leaps and bounds and was approaching ?1 billion. The club's organization had grown and adapted, sometimes with difficulty, to the new reality of football. This was now a gigantic global business that could no longer be managed as it had back when the club won its first European C...Starting at €0.00
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Samia Mazari: Building a Personal Brand - Teaching Note
Oliver, Xavier; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note MT-56-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, MarketingSamia Mazari, CEO of automotive supplier Frings Auto Parts, is about to leave her post in order to join a larger automotive group. In her 6 years has head of Frings, she's managed to turn the company around while also developing - with the help of the company's corporate communications group - a personal branding and communications strategy. The case takes a look at Samia's career before joining Frings. An accomplished engineer that emigrated fr...Starting at €0.00