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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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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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CASE LEARNING: Selling Adultery
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B16TE03-EStrategyA year after a massive data breach at its Ashley Madison adultery service, Avid Life Media relaunched in 2016 under a new name. The move was designed to help the business recover from the hacker attack that had exposed its security and governance issues and dashed the desire of investors to take the company public. It was also a strategic step to regain the trust of customers who had been outed as would-be cheaters. Now known as Ruby, the company...Starting at €8.20
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Trumping Divisive Leadership
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B17TD02-EStrategyAmerica faces a previously unimaginable leadership crisis. And that is why businesspeople fleeing White House advisory councils over Trump’s response to the tragic events in Charlottesville—where a civil rights activist was killed during a violent clash—should be applauded, not attacked. Unfortunately, millions of Trump supporters don’t see a problem with the comfort that racists are taking from his leadership. And because these Trump supporters ...Starting at €8.20
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2014 Showed Character Is as Important as Talent
Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B15TA03-ELeadership and People ManagementCharacter has often been described as the difference-maker in sports, business and life. The importance of character in the workplace, especially leader character, has proved all too easy to forget in recent years. Events in 2014 involving Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, radio broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi and NFL running back Ray Rice helped demonstrate the important role that character plays in the success and failure of organizations. As this article stat...Starting at €8.20
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A Not So Rosy Situation: Bill Aziz's Challenge at White Rose Crafts and Nursery Sales Limited - Teaching Note
Mary M. Crossan; Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkTeaching Note IVEY-8B07M53-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B07M053.Starting 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