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The Competitive Battle Continues (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-914S12StrategyDescribes the development of the global strategies and organizations of two major competitors in the consumer electronics industry. Over four decades, both companies adapt their strategic intent and organizational capability to match and counter the competitive advantage of the other. The case shows how each is faced to restructure as its competitive advantage erodes.Starting at €8.20
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Storming into the U.S. Market (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Gordon, Rachel; Lafkas, JohnCase HBS-918S10StrategyThe RoboTech case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative product (a specialized surgical robot) in an unfamiliar market segment (spinal surgery) and decides to enter the unfamiliar, distant U.S. healthcare market, which is characteri...Starting at €8.20
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Kentucky Fried Chicken (Japan) Ltd. (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Rangan, U. SrinivasaCase HBS-318S12StrategyDescribes the internationalization of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain, focusing on KFC's entry into Japan. An entrepreneurial country general manager, Lou Weston, battles numerous problems to establish the business and is eventually highly successful. In doing so, Weston ignores or circumvents policies and control from KFC's headquarters and becomes very upset when more sophisticated planning, coordination, and control systems be...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Scenario Planning in High-Uncertainty Environments: The Disruption Matrix
Costa, Carlos; Nueno, José LuisTechnical Note MN-405-EDecision Analysis, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe coronavirus pandemic is an unexpected external event with a profound impact on demand in all sectors that is highly conditioned by decisions that correspond to external stakeholders. After overcoming their initial shock, within this context companies have to think about their future in two or three years; however, it is very difficult for the management team to plan and define a clear strategy when it remains unknown when and how they will be...Starting at €8.20
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Big Brother: Endemol's Big Hit
Fillat D.; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Nueno, José LuisCase SI-154-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case describes the history of the Big Brother television show format, thought up by Endemol, which represent the global launchof the "reality show" concept. Following years of extraordinary success, Endemol and its Spanish subsidiary Zeppelín are thinking about how to vary the format to recover audience viewing levels.Starting at €8.20
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Avena Kinesia (A)
Arias, José Francisco; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1007MarketingLa jefa de producto de Avena Kinesia se encuentra en la encrucijada de fijar precios de transferencia para un Gel de Avena. La empresa que lanza el producto no ha hecho un lanzamiento en la categoría en varios años.Starting at €8.20
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3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Mohammed, AfrozeCase HBS-395017-EKnowledge and CommunicationA middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by a struggling business unit. Describes the long, difficult process by which the unit has developed the pStarting at €8.20
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Henkel Ibérica: The Relaunching of Conejo Vajillas
Carrasco, M.; Farrero, E.; Nueno, José LuisCase M-908-EMarketingIn October 1985, S.A. Casamitjana Mensa (leader on the Spanish bleach market) was acquired by the Henkel Ibérica, S.A. Group (one of the biggest manufacturers of chemical products, adhesives, hygiene products, cosmetics, etc.). The takeover caused the new company problems managing marketing and sales. The problem was integrating Casamitjana's brands, sales force, distribution management and manufacturing operations into Henkel's company structure...Starting at €8.20
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Recuperaciones Unidas y Nacional Aurea, S.A.
Miravitlles, L.; Nueno, José Luis; Serra, FernandoCase P-586-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy (Brief Case) (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Barlow, Benjamin H.Case HBS-414S07StrategyWhen students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. Clayton Industries, a sixty-year-old U.S.-based firm in the HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) industry, with nearly $1 billion in revenues, has gradually built a presence in a number of countries, including several in Europe. Peter Arnell, previously Clayton's successful country manager for t...Starting at €8.20