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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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Spotify: Face the Music - Teaching Note
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-104-EStrategyStarting at €0.00
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Hertz & Dollar Thrifty
Estrada, JavierCase F-906-EFinanceMark Frissora, Hertz's chief executive officer and chairman of the Board, had been pushing Elyse Douglas, the company's chief financial officer, to come up with a figure. The figure was how much Hertz should bid to acquire Dollar Thrifty and still generate value for Hertz's shareholders. Frissora had been pursuing the acquisition of Dollar Thrifty for almost three years now, and yet a deal remained elusive. "It's now or never," Frissora told Doug...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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Hertz y Dollar Thrifty: una introducción al DCF
Estrada, JavierCase F-940Entrepreneurship, FinanceEste caso examina el proceso detrás del intento de adquisición de Dollar Thrifty por parte de Hertz. Hertz Global Holdings (Hertz) es una empresa de alquiler de automóviles y equipos con sede en Park Ridge, Nueva Jersey. Walter Jacobs fundó la empresa en 1918, en Chicago, y la vendió, en 1923, a John Hertz, quien la rebautizó como Hertz Drive-Ur-Self System. Con el tiempo, Hertz pasó por varios propietarios, y cotiza en la Bolsa de Valores de Nu...Starting at €8.20
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Atlas Financial Advisors
Estrada, JavierCase F-954-EFinanceThe team of advisors under the supervision of John Galt gathered at the Coral Gables, Florida, offices of Atlas Financial Advisors in early January 2020. The meeting was held with the sole purpose of issuing a recommendation to the Board of Trustees of the Green Hills golf club, whose $200 million endowment Atlas advised. This case replaces the F-727 Atlas Investment Management case from the same author.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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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