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Nokia India: Battery Recall Logistics
Charles Dhanaraj; Narendar Sumukadas; P. Fraser Johnson; Monali MalvankarCase IVEY-9B11D003-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case presents the challenge faced by Nokia India in 2007. Nokia had built a strong brand reputation over a ten-year period and was a market leader in Indian mobile devices. India, incidentally, was also Nokia’s second-largest market, next only to China. Suddenly, what corporate headquarters considered a routine product advisory for a defective battery resulted in panic in customers after the Indian media widely publicized the potential dange...Starting at €8.20
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Will Our Partner Steal Our IP (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengArticle HBS-R1301Z-EA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored by Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang, featuring commentaries by experts Eric Giler and Mats H. Olsson. For teaching purposes, this is the commentary-only version of the HBR case study. The case-only version is reprint R1301X. The complete case study and commentary is reprint R1301M.Starting at €8.20
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Quanta Research Institute: Rainforest or Hothouse
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-Cheng; Yu, HowardCase HBS-611024-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Barry Lam, the CEO and Founder of Quanta Computer (the largest notebook computer manufacturer worldwide), has recognized for many years, that he had to transform the company to decrease its dependence on producing commodity hardware for other global brands and move the firm into areas of higher value-added products and services. But how could he transform an organization tha...Starting at €8.20
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Shanghai Pharmaceuticals
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-313016-EStrategyShanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company-essentially a collection of subsidiaries operating under a unified management structure-was formed through the 2009 merger of several state-owned enterprises, part of a broad policy effort in China to streamline state assets, ...Starting at €8.20
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Acibadem Healthcare Group
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Cekin, Esel; Kindred, Natalie; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-315120-EThis case focuses on Ac badem Healthcare Group's, Turkey's only premium nationwide hospital network, potential expansion strategies after it was acquired by International Healthcare Holdings Berhad (IHH) in 2011, the world's second-largest publicly listed health care group and a private hospital leader in Singapore and Malaysia. By providing perspectives on both Ac badem and IHH-Parkway-Pantai's operational models, growth aspirations, collabora...Starting at €8.20
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Nokia India: Battery Recall Logistics (Spanish Version)
Charles Dhanaraj; Narendar Sumukadas; P. Fraser Johnson; Monali MalvankarCase IVEY-9B11DS003Entrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case presents the challenge faced by Nokia India in 2007. Nokia had built a strong brand reputation over a ten-year period and was a market leader in Indian mobile devices. India, incidentally, was also Nokia’s second-largest market, next only to ChiStarting at €8.20
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Walmart China - Supply Chain Transformation
P. Fraser JohnsonCase IVEY-9B15D018-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn late September 2015, the senior vice-president of supply chain management at Walmart China was preparing for a meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas, where she was expected to make a presentation detailing plans for Walmart China's network of distribution centres. The investment in infrastructure would be the next major step in the organization's supply chain transformation. The case provides an opportunity to explore issues related to supply chain...Starting at €8.20
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Will Our Partner Steal Our IP? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengArticle HBS-R1301M-EStrategyA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored by Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang, featuring commentaries by experts Eric Giler and Mats H. Olsson. This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1301X, and commentary-only, ...Starting at €8.20
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MedVal Ventures
Herzlinger, Regina E.Case HBS-308087-EIs medical travel a viable business opportunity? A group of MBA students consider the pros and cons of starting a business that would send people from the U.S. to India for elective non-emergency surgeries.Starting at €8.20
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Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global, and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Ghorawat, Amit; Krishnan, Meera; Saggi, NaiyyaCase HBS-313030-EService and Operations ManagementThis case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the US. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two countries and Africa, to which one of the models is considering expansion, and intrinsic business characteristics. The Indian models are all focused factories, but one is a hub and spoke model, with a radiology hub and ambulatory spokes, while the other...Starting at €8.20