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Benetton Group S.p.A., 2012
Wells, John R.; Danskin, GalenCase HBS-713513-EStrategy"On May 31, 2012, after 36 years on the Milan Stock Exchange, Benetton was officially delisted and taken private by Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company. Since 2000, Benetton shareholders had seen its market value fall from $4.3 billion to $720 million at the end of 2011. At $2.6 billion, Benetton's sales in 2011 were virtually the same as they were in 2000, but Inditex from Spain, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) from Sweden and Fast Retailing ...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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Rechargeable Batteries, 2017: Gigafactory Wars in the Offing
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-720371-EStrategyIn 2017, the global market for rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries was 126 gigawatt-hours (GWh) valued at $37 billion, growing by $10 billion in two years. Once confined largely to consumer electronics and appliances, the rapid increase in demand was spurred by the adoption of electric cars and buses. Moreover, the falling cost of batteries was sparking interest in another potential huge market-the electrical utility sector. Batteries cou...Starting at €8.20
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Tencent
Wells, John R.; Ellsworth, GabrielCase HBS-718426-EStrategyTencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China's largest social networking service provider with several of the largest social networking applications in the world, and China's favorite Internet portal. It was challenging Alibaba's Alipay as the leader in online payments systems, and it had esta...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon.com, 2019 (Spanish version)
Wells, John R.; Danskin, Galen; Ellsworth, GabrielCase HBS-718S08StrategyEl 28 de enero de 2016, Amazon anunció récord de 2015 una utilidad operacional de $ 2.2 mil millones dólares en $ 107 mil millones en ventas, y los mercados respondieron con optimismo. Durante años, fundador y CEO Jeffrey Bezos habían priorizado el crecimiento y la inversión en nuevas áreas de negocio sobre las ganancias, pero la presión de los analistas fue de montaje ya que el crecimiento se está desacelerando y las ganancias fueron fallando a ...Starting at €8.20
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Electric Car Wars, 2018
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-719470-EStrategyElectric cars had long been championed by environmentalists as a superior solution to the internal combustion engine (ICE), but, despite large government incentives and strong pioneering efforts by a few automakers over the years, electric and hybrid cars and light trucks still accounted for less than 1% of total global production in 2016. However, events took a turn in 2017 and 2018, when many governments committed to banning ICE vehicles. In re...Starting at €8.20
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Tencent, Teaching Note
Wells, John R.; Ellsworth, GabrielTeaching Note HBS-718457-EStrategyTeaching Note for HBS No. 718426.Starting at €0.00