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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20
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Kozmo.com - "We'll Be Right Over"
Ghosh, AnindyaCase E-164-EEntrepreneurshipJoseph Park, co-founder of Kozmo.com, was euphoric. It was December 23, 1999 and he had just received a phone call about what he called the best Christmas gift of his life. A group of investors led by Amazon had decided to invest more that $100 million in his fledgling start-up. The capital markets were buoyant about all things related to the Internet and the NASDAQ was scaling to new heights every month. A quick IPO, which could help raise the c...Starting at €8.20
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Oakberry: The Gracia Store Decision - Teaching Note
Soler, EdiTeaching Note ASNT-18-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn December 2019, just two days before his final MBA exams, Edison was contemplating if he should become a shareholder of an Oakberry franchise store in Barcelona. Oakberry was a one-product fast food chain specialized in healthy and natural drinks based on frozen açaí, a unique fruit from an Amazon palm tree. Three years after its launch in Brazil, the chain had more than 200 stores worldwide. He believed this entrepreneurial experience could be...Starting at €0.00
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Oakberry: The Gracia Store Decision
Soler, Edi; Eduardo Bork AlvoCase ASN-90-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn December 2019, just two days before his final MBA exams, Edison was contemplating if he should become a shareholder of an Oakberry franchise store in Barcelona. Oakberry was a one-product fast food chain specialized in healthy and natural drinks based on frozen açaí, a unique fruit from an Amazon palm tree. Three years after its launch in Brazil, the chain had more than 200 stores worldwide. He believed this entrepreneurial experience could be...Starting at €8.20
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Plug Power, Inc. (B): Q1-2021 Evolution and News
Vera, Juan; López Cardenete, Juan LuisCase SM-1717-EInnovation and ChangePlug Power illustrates the potential for innovation in business models. The company takes advantage, at a very early stage, of the emergence of hydrogen as an essential emerging vector in the energy transition to a decarbonized society. Green hydrogen is emerging as the fuel and raw material that will make decarbonization viable when, for technological or competitive reasons, electrification isn't possible in end uses (transportation, industry an...Starting at €5.74
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Plug Power, Inc. (A)
Vera, Juan; López Cardenete, Juan LuisCase SM-1715-EInnovation and ChangePlug Power illustrates the potential for innovation in business models. The company takes advantage, at a very early stage, of the emergence of hydrogen as an essential emerging vector in the energy transition to a decarbonized society. Green hydrogen is emerging as the fuel and raw material that will make decarbonization viable when, for technological or competitive reasons, electrification isn't possible in end uses (transportation, industry an...Starting at €8.20
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How Social Networks Create Competitive Advantage
Burt, Ronald S.; Hogseth, SuzanneArticle ART-2749-EKnowledge and Communication, StrategyGlobal managers can gain competitive advantage by bridging information gaps -- or structural holes -- between different islands of knowledge within their organizations, whether these are functional areas, business units or geographic markets. By manning these bridges, they are in a unique position to collect and transfer information, and most important, reframe it to make sure that it is understandable across diverse islands. To learn how to gain...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Last-Mile Productivity at Paack
Markakis, Mihalis G.; Martínez de Albéniz, VictorCase OIT-17-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementLast-mile delivery is by far the most operationally complex and costly part of logistics. Nevertheless, it has become a critical function of e-commerce in the last 20 years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multitude of actors operate in the last-mile delivery space: first-party logistics companies, such as Amazon; third-party logistics companies, such as DHL; and fourth-party logistics (4PL) companies, many of them gig economy-based,...Starting at €8.20
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Organizational Behaviour
Raes, AnneloesInteractive Course DPOIC-36-ELeadership and People ManagementModule 1: In this module, the professor will introduce you to one of the central topics of organizational behavior: Motivation. We´ll explore why people act as they do so that we can better understand their motivations on the job. These insights will help you understand how managers can influence the people on their teams toward a common goal in the context of organizations. Module 2: Type the word leadership into Amazon´s search engine and you... -
Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud - Teaching Note
Zamora, Javier; Tatarinov, KatherineTeaching Note SIT-18-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final tests on his New York-based IT startup company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date for this innovative photo crowdsourcing service, commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client - the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed like the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realized that he coul...Starting at €0.00