Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (B)
Shaw, K; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-HR44B-EThis is the follow up case to “Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (A).” This (B) case presents the results of the company’s two major people analytics projects, which are described in the (A) case. The first project used data to identify empirically the traits of great managers and subsequently identify who might or might not be a great manager. This enabled RBC to help those managers who could...Starting at €5.74
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Bonnier News In 2019: Driving Take-Off of Digital Publishing
Burgelman, Robert; Melvin, SheilaCase SGSB-SM327-EStrategyWhen Anders Eriksson was appointed CEO of Bonnier News in June 2016, he took the helm of a storied Swedish media business in the midst of a momentous transformation. Bonnier News included three of Sweden’s most important newspapers—Dagens Nyheter (DN), the national paper of record; Dagens Industri (DI), the top business daily; and Expressen, a tabloid that reached roughly half of the country’s population—and the southern Swedish daily HD–Sydsven...Starting at €8.20
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BuildDirect: Constructing a Culture that can Weather the Storms
Sutton, R; Rao, H; Hinds, RCase SGSB-E526-EEntrepreneurshipAfter a delayed shipment of flooring materials impeded Jeff Booth’s ability to complete a construction project on schedule, he, along with cofounder Robert Banks, was determined to solve the inefficiency of the heavyweight building supply industry. They founded BuildDirect, an e-commerce company based on a sophisticated technology platform that optimized the shipment of home improvement products. Since its founding in 1999, BuildDirect faced se...Starting at €8.20
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Bonnier News in 2016 and Beyond: Balancing Legacy and Innovation
Burgelman, R; Melvin, SCase SGSB-SM251-EStrategyBonnier News was Sweden’s leading media group and a paragon in the nation’s cultural, economic, and political circles. It was one of six divisions of Bonnier AB, a company founded by Gerhard Bonnier in 1804 that remained wholly owned by the Bonnier family, with 8,000 employees and operations in 15 countries. Bonnier News, which published three major papers in Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Industri, and Expressen and the southern Swedish dai...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Creating a Viable Venture - A Global Perspective
Ciesinski, Steve; Rosen, HowieCase SGSB-E651 Spanish VersionEntrepreneurshipThe case chronicles the challenges of a consulting team charged with developing and executing a negotiation strategy designed to help a large retailer cut costs by renegotiating their contract with their largest supplier. The disguised case begins by describing the market conditions that led BizCo, a publicly traded office supply retailer, to invite DMB, a top consulting company, to help them restore their price competitiveness. It then describe...Starting at €8.20
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Mind the Gap: Strategy and Execution of Supply Chain Negotiations
Halevy, Nir; Ostos, LorenaCase SGSB-OB110-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case chronicles the challenges of a consulting team charged with developing and executing a negotiation strategy designed to help a large retailer cut costs by renegotiating their contract with their largest supplier. The disguised case begins by describing the market conditions that led BizCo, a publicly traded office supply retailer, to invite DMB, a top consulting company, to help them restore their price competitiveness. It then describe...Starting at €8.20
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Lloyds Banking Group: Digital Transformation
Feinberg, Yossi; Conn, JeffCase SGSB-SM329-EStrategyThis case describes the transformation of the UK’s oldest financial services franchise from a product-aligned and brick-and-mortar traditional banking institution to a customer-aligned and digital-first technology organization. The case parallels Lloyds’ business transformation with the growth of its digital-focused Transformation division – which commenced as a small hundred-person task force and ultimately grew to comprise one third of the bank...Starting at €8.20
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Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (A)
Shaw, K; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-HR44A-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case discusses how the leaders of the Royal Bank of Canada infused the 80,000-employee company with a new emphasis on People Analytics. This supported the bank’s business strategies for its wide range of business units. The bank’s new People Analytics group, led at the top by the vice president of human resources, collected and analyzed huge volumes of data about the bank’s employees, customers, and business unit performance to help the com...Starting at €8.20
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BoKlok's Housing for the Many People: On-the-Money Homes for Pinpointed Buyers
Burgelman, Robert; Fischer, Martin; Sutherland, MargotCase SGSB-SM298A-EStrategyJonas Spangenberg, CEO of BoKlok, an entrepreneurial industrialized construction venture focused on providing low-cost housing to a sharply defined, relatively low-price market segment, must identify and manage forces within three contexts as he develops and guides BoKlok’s growth strategy: the residential construction industry, and Skanksa and IKEA, BoKlok’s parent companies. Students are asked to consider Spangenberg’s strategic actions in rel...Starting at €8.20
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Cinnamon: New Product Introduction
Siegel, Robert; Mirabile, DominicCase SGSB-SM357-EStrategyThis case explores the introduction of a new product that targets both new and existing segments of the investment management services market. Cinnamon, a discretionary investment management app, was founded in the United Kingdom in 2011. With the help of the team’s first product manager, Maria Pasquale (GSB ’11), Cinnamon navigated the new product introduction process: identifying unmet needs, developing value hypotheses, building a minimum vi...Starting at €8.20