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Cuando vender activos es una estrategia
Mair, Johanna; Moschieri, CaterinaArticle ART-1970StrategyLa enajenación de parte de una empresa suele malinterpretarse. Se ve como un instrumento al que recurren las grandes empresas para ¿sacar la basura¿, pero lo cierto es que puede ser el resultado de una decisión estratégica rentable tanto para la matriz como para la unidad de negocio de la que se desprende. Las empresas enajenan por razones legales o estratégicas. A su vez, la enajenación puede adoptar muchas formas, entre ellas la creación de una...Starting at €8.20
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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20
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International Expansion of Escuela Nueva: A Transformative Pedagogy on a Global Scale
Hehenberger, Lisa; Moral, N.; Mair, JohannaCase SM-1556-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenging task of expanding the widely successful Escuela Nueva pedagogy on a global scale. Escuela Nueva provides a cost effective, replicable and scalable solution to improve the quality of basic education in low income schools. It started in rural Colombia, but has since expanded principally to a large number of Latin American countries. Evidence shows that wherever Escuela Nueva is implemented, children become ...Starting at €8.20
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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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Project Impact: The Affordable Hearing Aid Project
Cordes E.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1472-EStrategyThis case introduces David Green, a social entrepreneur with the mission of making advanced medical technology affordable and available to those in the third world. It describes the growth and success of projects to develop, manufacture and distribute low-cost hearing aids and other basic medical technology in India, and presents a direct contrast to the traditional maximum profit model of the medical industry. After achieving success with Aurola...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