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Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Khanna, Tarun; Skurnik, Samuli; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-709409-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the regional cooperatives own SOK, a centralized company that provides services to the regional cooperatives. Throughou...Starting at €8.20
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Emerging Nokia?
Alcacer, Juan; Khanna, Tarun; Furey, Mary; Mabud, RakeenCase HBS-710429-EStrategyBy late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume emerging markets. This case poses the following questions: Should Nokia stay the course, operating in both the developed and emerging markets, or should they forego one for the other?...Starting at €8.20
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Implantación de SAP en Celsa (B)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-140Information Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationEl caso (B) describe la solución adoptada que llevó a una mejora de la situación competitiva de la empresa.Starting at €5.74
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Implementation of SAP at Celsa (A)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-139-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationThe case describes the situation of a company with a large number of centres of operations, as a result of acquisitions and takeovers, that decides to implement SAP. It presents the problems associated with the implementation of a complex system in a distributed environment. Case (A) should be accompanied by case (B), to be handed out in class, which describes the solution eventually adopted, which leads to an improvement in the company's competi...Starting at €8.20
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Implementation of SAP at Celsa (B)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-140-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationCase (B) describes the solution eventually adopted, which leads to an improvement in the company's competitive situation.Starting at €5.74
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Implantación de SAP en Celsa (A)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-139Information Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationEl caso plantea la situación de una empresa con múltiples centros de trabajo, fruto de adquisiciones y absorciones, que decide implantar SAP. Presenta la problemática de puesta en marcha de un sistema complejo en un entorno distribuido. El caso (A) debe ir acompañado del caso (B), a entregar en clase, donde se describe la solución adoptada que llevó a una mejora de la situación competitiva de la empresa.Starting at €8.20