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Wikipedia: Project Esperanza
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Gorbatai, Andreea; Zuzul, TionaCase HBS-712493-EStrategyIn October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer-run on-line encyclopedia which could be freely read and edited by anyone with internet access. Within almost six years of its founding in 2001, the project had attracted hundreds of thousands of editors who had written over 1.2 million articles in English alone. Almost 10 percent of world-wide internet users accessed Wikipedia at least once a month. Just as Wales was stepping down, the editor c...Starting at €8.20
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Yammer (A)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Herman, Kerry; Smith, AaronCase HBS-713407-EStrategyIn spring 2012, Yammer was on track to become a highly successful standalone company. Yammer was a leading Enterprise Social Network (ESN), providing companies a private social network in which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that year, Microsoft executives unexpectedly reached out with an offer to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion and integrate Yammer into the Microsoft Office division. An integration with Micr...Starting at €8.20
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Yammer (B)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Smith, AaronCase HBS-713483-EStrategySupplement to Yammer (A), case 712-494.Starting at €5.74
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Netflix: liderando con una cultura corporativa única
Lee, Yih-Teen; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase DPO-810Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementA pesar de sus disruptivas peculiaridades - ausencia de políticas de aprobación de gasto o de vacaciones, feedback constante y visible por todos los miembros de la organización, y exigentes objetivos de rendimiento - la cultura de Netflix ha arrojado grandes resultados a lo largo de las décadas de los 2000 y los 2010. Efectivamente, durante este período Netflix se anticipó, incluso lideró, de forma exitosa muchas de las disrupciones que han afect...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon.com, Inc: la transformación mediante IA
Samila, Sampsa; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1724Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEste caso describe el desarrollo y utilización de la IA en Amazon. Este caso ha sido usado en clase para discutir el amplio abanico de aplicaciones de IA en Amazon, los efectos competitivos de estas aplicaciones, el proceso para desarrollar estas aplicaciones, y el estado actual de la organización de Amazon.Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20
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Social Strategy at Cisco Systems
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Malter, Daniel; Smith, AaronCase HBS-714475-EStrategyIn April 2013, Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice president and general manager for Learning@Cisco Systems, was planning the future of the Cisco Learning Network, an online platform hosted at Cisco.com. Since its launch in 2008, the Cisco Learning Network provided content to prepare networking professionals for certification exams, as well as social functionalities to let users interact with each other. To help realize the company's vision for "The Inter...Starting at €8.20
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foursquare
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Chen, DavidCase HBS-711418-EEntrepreneurshipThe cofounders of foursquare are deciding how to respond to competitive threats and scale up the organization. Foursquare was a location-based online service that allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby locations. Within a year and a half of its founding the company had 4...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: Leading With a Unique Corporate Culture
Lee, Yih-Teen; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase DPO-810-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementDespite its disruptive peculiarities --no formal expenses or vacation policies, constant publicly visible feedback throughout the organization, and exacting performance targets-- Netflix's culture, throughout the 2000s and 2010s, yielded impressive results. Indeed, during this period, Netflix successfully anticipated, even pioneered, many of the disruptions impacting the media industry. What began as a movie rental service of physical media like ...Starting at €8.20
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OpenAI and the Large Language Model Market - Teaching Note
Samila, Sampsa; Berrone, Pascual; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-144-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe case study centered on Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, as he faced critical decisions regarding the company's future direction in the rapidly growing large language model (LLM) market. With the success of GPT-4, OpenAI became a prominent player in the industry, and Altman had to develop a comprehensive strategy to maintain this position while navigating a complex array of challenges. The case explored key issues such as competitive dynamics, f...Starting at €0.00