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Fluidra Connect: The Internet of Pools
Rodríguez, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1349-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingConnect Fluidra is a smart solution for pool industry professionals to remotely manage and diagnose pool-related issues. It was one of the most innovative initiatives by Fluidra and would require a different business model than what the company had traditionally developed. After running a controlled product launch in Spain, approached as a lab, things did not go as expected: They had only installed one hundred devices when the target was five hun...Starting at €8.20
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Fluidra Connect: el Internet de las piscinas
Rodríguez, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1349Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingFluidra Connect es una solución inteligente orientada a los profesionales del sector de las piscinas que permite gestionar las cuestiones relacionadas con ellas y efectuar un diagnóstico de forma remota. Se trataba de una de las apuestas más innovadoras de Fluidra y supondría un modelo de negocio diferente al que había desarrollado tradicionalmente la compañía. Tras realizar un lanzamiento controlado del producto en España, a modo de LAB, los res...Starting at €8.20
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Sónar: 25 años vinculando creatividad y tecnología
Rodríguez, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1358Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, MarketingEn el aspecto musical, Sónar se consolidó hace años como un punto de encuentro para la innovación dentro de la industria musical, como un festival en el que muchos artistas aspiraban a presentar sus nuevos proyectos o a consagrarse como integrantes de la élite mundial. Sin embargo, Sónar era mucho más que música. Edición tras edición, el congreso internacional Sónar+D sobre tecnología y creatividad ganaba relevancia como exponente de actuaciones ...Starting at €8.20
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Negotiating for Success in Asia: Adapting to a Multipolar World
Stephen Grainger; Per HintzeCase IVEY-9B19M015-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAn executive at a North American-based multinational company contacted an old friend and former business associate in Indonesia in hopes of collaborating with him to purchase Asian software companies. After several emails, the two disagreed and disengaged. The North American declined the Indonesian’s advice to invest time in developing the relationships required to access this market. Three months later, after realizing he had closed the door on ...Starting at €8.20
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Carmina Shoemaker: Back to the Future of Luxury
Rodríguez, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1332-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Marketing: In its brief history, Carmina Shoemaker had managed to carve a niche for itself in the exclusive world of classic Goodyear welted shoes, competing with such manufacturers of stature as Crockett & Jones, Church and Edward Green. The honesty behind its products, which offered outstanding quality at an affordable price, had been its competitive weapon to date. Based on its position in a discreet second tier compared with the large brands, Carmina ...Starting at €8.20
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TRIPICTURES: afrontando el final de la transición digital
Rodríguez, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1296Innovation and Change, Marketing, StrategyTripictures, en su papel de distribuidora cinematográfica independiente, afrontaba los desafíos del desarrollo del cine digital, con la irrupción de un nuevo agente en la cadena de valor -los "intermediarios"-; los últimos movimientos en torno a las ventanas de explotación con el estreno de títulos de forma simultánea; el auge de la ventana electrónica, y las demandas de un consumidor exigente que, tras la explosión digital, tenía a su disposició...Starting at €8.20
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BYD Company, Ltd. (Spanish version)
Huckman, Robert S.; MacCormack, AlanCase HBS-614S03Service and Operations ManagementConsidera si BYD Co., Ltd., el mayor fabricante chino de baterías recargables, debe entrar en la industria del automóvil chino mediante la adquisición de Qinchuan automático, un fabricante de automóviles de propiedad estatal. Establecer justo después de la oferta pública inicial de BYD en la Bolsa de Hong Kong en 2002, que describe el desarrollo del enfoque de trabajo intensivo de BYD para la fabricación de baterías - un enfoque decididamente dif...Starting at €8.20
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Hotel Latvia: Sell Out, Hang In or Partner
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B14M170-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThree friends have followed their entrepreneurial dream to build a five-star hotel in Liepaja, a seaside city in Latvia. After a few early profitable years, the hotel is struggling, due to the massive downturn in the Latvian economy as a result of the European Union financial crisis and slow recovery. The hotel has declined from generating an annual profit to now making a loss or barely breaking even. On several occasions, the co-owners have cons...Starting at €8.20
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Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B17M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2012, a real estate entrepreneur and his long-time friend and former neighbour, a police director, had enjoyed the profits of guanxi—a bilateral flow of personal favours—for many years. The use of guanxi in China had long been a core component of successful and sometimes illegal business. However, China’s new president had recently created a tough anti-corruption Disciplinary Committee. As a result, many respected citizens who had previously p...Starting at €8.20
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Roaring Dragon Hotel: A Second Attempt at Modernization
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B12C055-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH), a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE), was under pressure to become a profit generating 5-star hotel due to the continued development of the Chinese market economy. As for many SOEs, the RDH was overstaffed, filled with archaic work practices, internal cliques, unsystematic production systems and a dysfunctional motivation system unrelated to performance. During modernization, a number of human resource management...Starting at €8.20