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Negotiating for Success in Asia: Adapting to a Multipolar World
Stephen Grainger; Per HintzeCase IVEY-9B19M015-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAn executive at a North American-based multinational company contacted an old friend and former business associate in Indonesia in hopes of collaborating with him to purchase Asian software companies. After several emails, the two disagreed and disengaged. The North American declined the Indonesian’s advice to invest time in developing the relationships required to access this market. Three months later, after realizing he had closed the door on ...Starting at €8.20
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La Dinámica de la Competencia en los Videojuegos Caseros (C): El Génesis de Sega
Coughlan, Peter J.Case HBS-703S27StrategyDescribe el lanzamiento de la consola de 16 bits Génesis de Sega en 1988 y su efecto sobre la competencia de Nintendo. Un reescrito versión de un caso anterior.Starting at €5.74
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La Dinámica de la Competencia en los Videojuegos Caseros (D): El Super NES de Nintendo
Coughlan, Peter J.Case HBS-703S28StrategySienta las bases para el lanzamiento de Nintendo de su consola Super NES en Japón y en los Estados Unidos y describe la reacción del consumidor a la consola frente a la de su principal competidor en el momento, Sega. Un reescrito versión de un caso anterior.Starting at €5.74
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La Dinámica de la Competencia en los Videojuegos Caseros (E): El Auge del 3DO y Juegos de 32 Bits
Coughlan, Peter J.Case HBS-703S29StrategyDescribe el lanzamiento de la innovadora compañía de videojuegos en casa, 3DO, que había desarrollado un sistema innovador que ofrece procesamiento de 32 bits y el software de CD-ROM. Examina la dinámica competitiva en la industria de los videojuegos en casa desde 1970 en el nuevo milenio.Starting at €5.74
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Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B17M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2012, a real estate entrepreneur and his long-time friend and former neighbour, a police director, had enjoyed the profits of guanxi—a bilateral flow of personal favours—for many years. The use of guanxi in China had long been a core component of successful and sometimes illegal business. However, China’s new president had recently created a tough anti-corruption Disciplinary Committee. As a result, many respected citizens who had previously p...Starting at €8.20
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Roaring Dragon Hotel: A Second Attempt at Modernization
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B12C055-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH), a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE), was under pressure to become a profit generating 5-star hotel due to the continued development of the Chinese market economy. As for many SOEs, the RDH was overstaffed, filled with archaic work practices, internal cliques, unsystematic production systems and a dysfunctional motivation system unrelated to performance. During modernization, a number of human resource management...Starting at €8.20
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Roaring Dragon Hotel: Problems Adapting to the Chinese Market Economy
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B17C049-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyBetween 1999 and 2017, the Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH) evolved from a state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a modern, market-driven 5-star accommodation provider, experiencing a combination of market economy and privatization forces. Its initial operations under the new status progressed from the poor performance and management practices of China’s planned economy to a portfolio of operational and strategic reforms that saw it become semi-privatized i...Starting at €8.20
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Lamoiyan Corp. of the Philippines: Challenging Multinational Giants, Teaching Note
Coughlan, Peter J.; Siegel, Jordan; Wells, John R.Teaching Note HBS-707554-EStrategyTeaching note to 704405.Starting at €0.00
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The Sri Lankan Health Crisis and the Middle Man
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B16M117-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2015, many people in southwest Sri Lanka were experiencing severe health problems as a result of poor water sanitation, decaying pumps and pipes, and the resultant unsanitary water. With Sri Lanka’s dubious credit record and extremely poor economy, the country's government was unsure of how to raise the US$70 million that was required to build new sanitation plants and replace many aging pipes throughout the region. Would it have to accept the...Starting at €8.20
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Swine Flu Tour
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B09C021-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAn Australian business professor has just arrived in China with a group of students, when one of the group members comes down with the H1N1 virus. The entire group is hospitalized or quarantined. The professor, who is also the tour director, must determine how to deal with the crisis, and quickly. This case is designed for use in a crisis management course, or in an early class in an international management course to illustrate the sorts of diff...Starting at €8.20