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Amazon Go: Venturing into Traditional Retail
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Aurelia KarpCase IVEY-9B17M092-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn December 2016, Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon), the largest online retailer, entered the offline retailing industry by launching its first Amazon Go store in Seattle. Previously, the company had entered the food, diaper, and housekeeping product manufacturing industries with its Amazon Elements brand. The company had not been profitable until 2001 and was still facing some financial difficulties, but it was named the fourth most valuable public comp...Starting at €8.20
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Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-413030-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2011, Sarah Naud and Matt Stanley sat down with the chairman of Telecom New Zealand, Wayne Boyd. Telecom, a publicly listed company and the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies, Chorus, a telecom infrastructure company, and new Telecom, a telecom retail services provider. In connection with this split, Naud and Stanley were charged with overseeing the process of creating two new boar...Starting at €8.20
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Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.; Abrahams, RobinTeaching Note HBS-414060-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 413032.Starting at €0.00
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Delhaize Group: Developing Leaders
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-415019-ELeadership and People ManagementDelhaize Group, the Belgian-based global food retailer, was focused on competing in the food retailing industry by developing leading positions in key markets via localized retailing strategies. Delhaize was committed to offering its customers superior value while maintaining high social, environmental, and ethical standards. For Frans Muller, Delhaize's president and CEO, the key to executing on this strategy was ensuring that the Group was deve...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Developmental Culture: the Birth of Deloitte University, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Teaching Note HBS-417081-EAccounting and ControlThis teaching note is a companion piece to the case, Building a Developmental Culture: The Birth of Deloitte University.Starting at €0.00
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Kvadrat: Leading for Innovation, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Teaching Note HBS-418088-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 413120.Starting at €0.00
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Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks
Groysberg, Boris; Healy, Paul M.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-412004-EIt was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand, President and CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest expert network firm globally, has found his firm once again in the midst of controversy. This controversy centered around a number of insider trading cases that had been brought against consultants working for competing expert network firms. While GLG was in no way implicated in these cases, and GLG had invested significantly in its compliance polic...Starting at €8.20
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Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover
Gilson, Stuart C.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-216059-EFinanceIn early 2013, CEDC, a large publicly-traded producer and distributer of vodka and spirits in Eastern and Central Europe, has suffered significant declines in its financial performance, is at risk of defaulting on its debt, and is under pressure from its largest shareholders to give them control of the board and to restructure its debt to avoid bankruptcy. The largest shareholder, billionaire Russian investor Roustam Tariko, has proposed an out o...Starting at €8.20
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Constellation Brands' Investment in Canopy Growth: Aiming High
Gilson, Stuart C.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-220044-EFinanceIn 2017, Constellation Brands, the U.S. based beverage company, acquired a 9.9% equity interest in the Canadian marijuana company, Canopy Growth. In 2018, Constellation announced a subsequent investment in Canopy-taking its ownership interest to 37%. However, Canopy's performance had been volatile and net losses had increased since the investment. In an effort to get into the cannabis market early, had Constellation Brands been too early?Starting at €8.20
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Kmart and ESL Investments (B): The Sears Merger
Gilson, Stuart C.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-209045-EFinanceSupplement to 209-044Starting at €5.74