HBSP (USA)
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Strategies to Fight Low-Cost Rivals (Spanish version)
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0612FStrategySlashing prices usually lowers profits for incumbents without driving the low-cost entrants out of business. Companies take various approaches to competing against cut-price players. Some differentiate their products--a strategy that works only in certain circumstances. Others launch low-cost businesses of their own, as many airlines did in the 1990s--a so-called dual strategy that succeeds only if companies can generate synergies between the ex...Starting at €8.20
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Don't Be Undersold!
Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M.; Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0912K-EMarketing"Aldi" is a word that strikes fear in the hearts of brand managers across Europe. A chain of low-budget retail stores with sales of $73.5 billion in 2008, Aldi invented what is commonly referred to as the hard-discount store, a format that is destroying between a quarter and a half trillion dollars in brand sales annually. Brand executives at major consumer packaged goods companies have mostly been caught off guard by this success. The authors' r...Starting at €8.20
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The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Donahue, John D.Case HBS-HKS107-EThis public leadership case puts students in the shoes of King County Executive Ron Sims, the top elected official in Washington State's largest and most diverse county. The year is 2005, and Sims wishes to take a high profile leadership role on the climate change issue-locally and on the national stage-by tackling the nearly uncharted realm of "adaptation," preparing at the local level for impacts of climate change considered inevitable. In addi...Starting at €8.20
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Buying Property in a Hot Market: NYC Creates a Fund to Keep Affordable Housing Developers in Play
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Goldsmith, StephenCase HBS-HKS110-EThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. This three-part case study presents the initial problem, the thinking, the politics, and the design negotiations that produced New York City's "NYC Acquisition Fund" in August 2006. The case concludes with a brief round-up of ...Starting at €8.20
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No se excluya del superdescuento!
Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M.; Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0912KMarketingAldi es una palabra que provoca temor en los corazones de los gerentes de marca en toda Europa. Una cadena de tiendas al por menor de bajo presupuesto con ventas de $ 73,5 mil millones en 2008, Aldi inventó lo que se conoce comúnmente como la tienda de descuento duro, un formato que está destruyendo entre un cuarto y medio billón de dólares en ventas de la marca anualmente. ejecutivos de la marca en las principales compañías de bienes de consumo ...Starting at €8.20
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Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Scott, Esther; Boatright Wilson, JulieCase HBS-HKS104-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerate...Starting at €8.20
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Michelle Rhee and the Washington D.C. Public Schools
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Winig, Laura; Kelman, SteveCase HBS-HKS693-EEconomicsThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. The case opens in 2007, when theStarting at €8.20
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Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Hong, KesselyCase HBS-HKS886-EA suite of 5 Video Shorts is an integral part of the case study. It features interviews with four leading members of the Santa Clara Pueblo, including the case protagonist, Alvin Warren. This negotiations case describes the approach, over time, of Santa Clara, a small Pueblo Indian tribe in New Mexico, to recover a piece of land tribal leaders viewed as integral to their ancestral homeland. Unlike many negotiations cases, which concern the strate...Starting at €8.20
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Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands, Teaching Plan
Hong, Kessely; Varley, Pamela; Garcia-Rios, PatriciaTeaching Note HBS-KS1011-ETeaching plan for product HKS886.Starting at €0.00
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Sea Change: Rewriting the Rules for Port Security
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Donahue, John D.Case HBS-HKS692-EStrategyThis case describes the task that confronted Coast Guard Captain Suzanne Englebert, the staff point-person who led an initiative to develop new regulations intended to improve the security of the nation's ports from terrorist attacks, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is intended for use in a strategic management class. Students are challenged to weigh an array of political, practical, legal, and technical considerations in assess...Starting at €8.20