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Globalizing an Australian Wine Company (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-305S13StrategyTwo new product launch decisions face Christopher Carson, managing director of BRL Hardy, Europe. Responsible for the European operations of a major Australian wine company, Carson has begun to globalize his strategy beyond selling the parent company's wines. After a difficult joint venture with a Chilean wine source, he is proposing to launch an Italian line of wines. His local team has also developed a new Australian brand that would compete di...Starting at €8.20
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Amanda Tremblay at Citrine Solutions (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-921S16Knowledge and CommunicationThe case focuses on Amanda Tremblay, a recent MBA with a technical background who was recruited by Citrine Software Solutions (CSS). CSS, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, develops, implements, and supports software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for human resource management and associated business processes. Soon after joining, Tremblay distinguishes herself through her work on a project that analyzed the possibility of accessing a lower-priced m...Starting at €8.20
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AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-919411-EDescribes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Australian Indigenous university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at less than half the rate of non- Indigenous students. The case traces the strategic, organizational and cultural challenges JMB faced in bui...Starting at €8.20
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Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-916414-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Teach this case online with new suggestions added to the Teaching Note. In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman los...Starting at €8.20
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New World versus Old (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-912S02StrategyThe case contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers, the battle for the US market, the most desirable export target in 2009 due to its large, fast-growing, high-priced market segments. The case allows analysis of the way in which newcomers can change the rules of competitive engagement in a global industry. It also poses the question of how incumbents can respond, especially when constrained...Starting at €8.20
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Learning to Ride Abroad (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-918S22StrategyYushan Bicycles, one of Taiwan's leading bicycle manufacturers, is pursuing an international expansion strategy by increasing demand for its range of traditional and electric bicycles and by shifting its product mix toward higher-margin models sold through specialty bicycle retail shops. However, the manager of its new Australian subsidiary has taken a different approach that focuses on selling lower-priced models through large sporting-goods ret...Starting at €8.20
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Venturing Abroad (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; O'Connell, JamieCase HBS-308S13StrategyLincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees through a culture of cooperation between management and labor and an unusual compensation system based on piecework and a large bonus based on individual contribution to the company's performance. Despite opening a few international sales and production ventures in Canada, Australia, and France, Lincoln remaine...Starting at €8.20
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Yushan Bicycles: Learning to Ride Abroad
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-917539-EStrategyYushan Bicycles, one of Taiwan's leading bicycle manufacturers, is pursuing an international expansion strategy by increasing demand for its range of traditional and electric bicycles and by shifting its product mix toward higher-margin models sold through specialty bicycle retail shops. However, the manager of its new Australian subsidiary has taken a different approach that focuses on selling lower-priced models through large sporting-goods ret...Starting at €8.20
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Amanda Tremblay at Citrine Solutions
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-920561-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe case focuses on Amanda Tremblay, a recent MBA with a technical background who was recruited by Citrine Software Solutions (CSS). CSS, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, develops, implements, and supports software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for human resource management and associated business processes. Soon after joining, Tremblay distinguishes herself through her work on a project that analyzed the possibility of accessing a lower-priced m...Starting at €8.20
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Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-910405-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe case contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers, the battle for the US market, the most desirable export target in 2009 due to its large, fast-growing, high-priced market segments. The case allows analysis of the way in which newcomers can change the rules of competitive engagement in a global industry. It also poses the question of how incumbents can respond, especially when constrained...Starting at €8.20