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Malaysia Airlines: The Marketing Challenge after MH370 and MH17
Neeraj Pandey; Gaganpreet SinghCase IVEY-9B15A028-EMarketing, StrategyThe chief executive officer of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) had the daunting task of sustaining a business that had suffered the tragic loss of two of its airliners in a span of just four months. Prior to this, a US$392 million loss, as well as the inability to compete with lower-cost carriers, had posed a great challenge to MAS. Management was planning to initiate a cost-cutting strategy to manage pricing and the competitive challenges of the aviatio...Starting at €8.20
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Nestlé's Maggi: Pricing and Repositioning a Recalled Product
Neeraj Pandey; Gaganpreet SinghCase IVEY-9B16A025-EMarketing, StrategyIn June 2015, the Indian food regulatory body, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, declared Nestlé’s brand of noodles, Maggi, unsafe for human consumption. Tested samples showed excess levels of lead and added monosodium glutamate. To retain the trust of consumers, Nestlé recalled Maggi from all store shelves in the country. Management was then grappling with an improved re-positioning strategy to help Nestlé retain its considerable...Starting at €8.20
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To Float or Not to Float? (A) (Spanish version)
Alfaro, Laura; Di Tella, Rafael; Vogel, IngridCase HBS-707S08EconomicsOn July 21, 2005 China revalued its decade-long quasi-fixed exchange rate of approximately 8.28 yuan per U.S. dollar by 2.1% to 8.11% and, at the same time, introduced a more market-based exchange rate system. Many analysts and economists were disappointed with what they considered too small a change and called for more flexibility in the U.S. dollar/yuan exchange rate. Modification to China's exchange rate regime had been eagerly anticipated and...Starting at €8.20
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China: Flotar o no flotar (C) Esquel Group y el Renminbi chino
Alfaro, Laura; Di Tella, Rafael; Vogel, IngridCase HBS-707S10EconomicsEn julio de 2005, China revaluó su moneda en un 2,1% y ajustar su régimen de tipo de cambio hacia un sistema más basado en el mercado. Esquel Group, una gestión familiar, textiles privadas firma especializada en camisas de algodón de alta calidad con su mayoría de base de producción se encuentra en China, estaba entre aquellas empresas que se enfrentan con el reto de hacer frente a la revaluación del yuan y la posibilidad de apreciación futura . ...Starting at €5.74
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China ''Unbalanced''
Comin, Diego; Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-711010-EEconomicsIn 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and monetary policy, China had weathered the crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often demonstrating for higher wages or better working conditions. Wen, however, was really focused on his new development strategy-shifting away from export-led growth to ease domestic and intern...Starting at €8.20
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China: Flotar o no Flotar (B) Calendario de cambios relevantes del Renminbi chino
Alfaro, Laura; Di Tella, Rafael; Vogel, Ingrid; Kim, Renee; Russell, WilliamCase HBS-707S11EconomicsEl 21 de julio, 2005, China revaluó su tipo de cambio cuasi-fijo década de duración de aproximadamente 8,28 yuanes por dólar EE.UU. un 2,1% a 8,11% y, al mismo tiempo, introdujo un sistema de tipo de cambio más basado en el mercado. Muchos analistas y economistas se mostraron decepcionados con lo que consideraban un cambio muy pequeño y pidieron una mayor flexibilidad en el tipo de cambio dólar-yuan EE.UU.. Proporciona una línea de tiempo de más ...Starting at €5.74
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Ekohealth: Developing Price Structures
Neeraj Pandey; Gaganpreet SinghCase IVEY-9B14A057-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyFounded in 2011 in Mumbai, India, Ekohealth Management Consultants Private Limited helped its subscribing members by negotiating bulk discounts with hospitals for all planned surgeries and reducing their monthly bills by suggesting low-cost generic drugs rather than expensive brand names. It ensured ethical health care practices by removing the referral fees doctors routinely demanded from hospitals, pathology clinics, pharmaceutical companies an...Starting at €8.20
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Comedy Nights with Kapil: Maintaining Value Creation
Neeraj Pandey; Gaganpreet SinghCase IVEY-9B14A056-EMarketing, StrategyBy the end of its first season in spring 2014, “Comedy Nights with Kapil” had become India’s top rated comedy television serial in the nonfiction category. Each episode invited celebrities from Bollywood or sports teams as guests to promote their upcoming movies or ventures. The show had developed its target market and had entered the maturity stage of its business life cycle. What might be future value creation business strategies for the show t...Starting at €8.20
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Malaysia: People First
Comin, Diego; Abraham, JohnCase HBS-710033-EEconomicsOn March 30, 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak presented his new economic model (NEM) for Malaysia. With the goal of raising per capita income to over $15,000 by 2020 from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration and privatize inefficient government linked corporations (GLCs). However, the most controversial part of the NEM was the dismantling of the new economic policy (NEP), an affirmativ...Starting at €8.20
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Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization
Comin, DiegoTeaching Note HBS-711064-EEconomicsBusiness Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization is one of the core modules in Business Government and the International Economy (BGIE), a course for the required curriculum of the Harvard Business School. BGIE teaches the economic, political and historical context in which businesses operate. The readings and cases in this module have been selected to provide students with two sets of concepts: (i) a framework to understand business cycle...Starting at €0.00