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Vipp A/S, Teaching Note
Austin, Robert D.Teaching Note HBS-609099-EMarketingTeaching Note for [607052].Starting at €0.00
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F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market, Teaching Note
Austin, Robert D.; Applegate, Lynda M.; Lyytinen, Kalle; Penttinen, Esko; Saarinen, TimoTeaching Note HBS-809151-EMarketingTeaching Note for [809099].Starting at €0.00
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LEGO Group: Building Strategy
Darren Meister; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B11M086-EMarketing, StrategyThe world famous toymaker, The LEGO Group, assembled an internal management team to create a strategic report on LEGO’s different product lines and business operations. In recent years, numerous threats to LEGO had emerged in the toy industry. The acquisition of Marvel Entertainment by The Walt Disney Company created major implications for valuable toy license agreements. LEGO had also recently lost a long legal battle with major competitor MEGA ...Starting at €8.20
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Vertu: Last Call for British Luxury Mobile Phone Maker
Margaret Osborne; Ken Kwong-Kay WongCase IVEY-9B19A005-EMarketing, StrategyVertu Corporation Limited (Vertu), a manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones, was founded as a subsidiary of Nokia in 2000. It was later acquired by a Swedish private equity firm in 2012, and then sold to Godin Holdings in 2015. Despite these multiple corporate ownership transitions, Vertu had remained uniquely positioned, differentiated by its phones’ bejewelled embellishments and a worldwide concierge service available at the touch of...Starting at €8.20
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Better World Fashion: Circular Economy and Competitive Advantage
Reimer Ivang; Mohammad Bakhtiar RanaCase IVEY-9B19A021-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn 2015, in Aalborg, Denmark, the two co-founders of Better World Fashion formed their company as a social enterprise, aiming to highlight all that was wrong with the fashion industry and offer a cleaner and more ethical solution. The business was designed to focus not only on profit but also on minimizing the environmental impact of the supply chain. The founders chose to specialize in garments made from re-purposed leather, as leather had a lon...Starting at €8.20
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Vertu: Nokia’s Luxury Mobile Phone for the Urban Rich
Ken Kwong-Kay WongCase IVEY-9B11A040-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyNokia, headquartered in Finland, was a global telecommunications equipment manufacturer. It operated Vertu, a luxury mobile phone brand that had pioneered the luxury mobile phone market in the late 1990s by using precious materials such as diamonds, sapphires, titanium, and exotic leather for phone production. The company had enjoyed impressive growth in almost 70 countries and had sold hundreds of thousands of phones in the eight years since its...Starting at €8.20
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Verne Global: Building a Green Data Center in Iceland
Steenburgh, Thomas; Okike, NnamdiCase HBS-509063-EMarketingVerne Global, a pioneering startup created to build the first large-scale data center in Iceland, faces critical challenges regarding its green strategy. Verne Co-Founder Isaac Kato is tasked with evaluating how the company can most successfully market and sell the green components of its service offering. Using only renewable energy in its data center facility, Verne can drastically reduce customers' carbon emissions, enabling customers to meet ...Starting at €8.20
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Angry Birds
Gupta, Sunil; Rood, DharmishtaCase HBS-512033-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Within months of its launch in December 2009, Angry Birds, a mobile game created by a small Finnish company, Rovio Entertainment Ltd., became an international hit. By late 2011, Rovio was not only making Angry Birds games for the iPhone, Android and other mobile platforms, but it had also expanded into plush toys, cookbooks, animation videos and licensing arrangement with ma...Starting at €8.20