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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Spanish version)
Bradley, Stephen P.; Ghemawat, Pankaj; Foley, SharonCase HBS-706S15StrategyThe case 'Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.' focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with its Supercenters, a combination supermarket and discount store. Wal-Mart experienced a drop in the value of its stock price in early 1993, which it ...Starting at €8.20
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The Northwest Passage
Leonard, Herman B.; Brannen, PeterCase HBS-309067-EFollowing dozens of failed expeditions to "discover" the NW passage, a Norwegian adventurer employs a new approach that emphasizes rigorous preparation, a lighter, quicker style, and a willingness to adapt to the inhospitable Arctic environment and its people. The case summarizes the bleak history of the exploration of the Northwest passage over several centuries, examining expeditions that employed a broad spectrum of strategies, leadership styl...Starting at €8.20
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Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, Epilogue
Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCase HBS-HKS455-EStrategyOn one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security plans for the public areas near the locus of the ministerial meetings. Their aim was to ensure that the talks proceeded smoothly while preserving the activists' rights to peaceful protest. Throughout the plann...Starting at €8.20
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Ready in Advance: The City of Tuscaloosa's Response to the 4/27/11 Tornado
Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCase HBS-KS1157-EIn a matter of minutes on the afternoon of April 27, 2011, a massive and powerful tornado leveled 1/8 of the area of Tuscaloosa, AL, a city of approximately 90,000 people and home to the University of Alabama. Doctrine called for the County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to take the lead in organizing the response to the disaster - but one of the first buildings destroyed during the event housed the County EMA offices, leaving the agency compl...Starting at €8.20
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Globalization of CEMEX (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Matthews, Jamie L.Case HBS-703S14StrategyCEMEX is a Mexican company that has become a major international competitor in cement while maintaining a higher level of profitability than other, longer-established majors. CEMEX's superior profitability supplies a basis for discussing the sources of superior performance in a global context. In addition, the wide array of benefits that CEMEX derives from its operations in different countries broadens conventional notions of why firms globalize.Starting at €8.20
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La decisión de USA Today. Difusión de titulares por todo el país (A)
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Garell, Scott B.Case HBS-708S15StrategyEsta serie de casos de dos partes describe cómo se define la opción de lanzar EE.UU. Hoy en día y evaluada por el Gannett Corp. Este caso es compatible con una amplia discusión de si el concepto de una manera general el interés ataques diarios nacionales con el entorno externo y los recursos internos de Gannett y capacidades; sino que también permite un análisis específico de la economía de la empresa propuesta.Starting at €8.20
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El lanzamiento de Gillette Sensor
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Esty, Benjamin C.Case HBS-714S14StrategyLa introducción del sistema de afeitado del sensor, uno de los lanzamientos de productos más grande nunca, Gillette forzado a reevaluar su estrategia en su afeitar y no afeitado negocio. Tenía que decidir si seguir adelante con el lanzamiento y si es así, ¿a qué escala. Permite el análisis de los márgenes y volúmenes tiene probabilidades de alcanzar el sensor, y las cuestiones de sostenibilidad y flexibilidad.Starting at €8.20
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Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A) (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, PankajCase HBS-309S10StrategyThis case series is a vehicle for examining the strategic logic and risks of preemption. Rewritten versions of earlier cases.Starting at €8.20
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Wal-Mart Stores' Discount Operations (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, PankajCase HBS-309S20StrategyFacilitates a discussion of the sources of Wal-Mart Stores' competitive advantage in discount retailing, and the future sustainability of that advantage. Also profiles the company's major diversification move in the early 1980s.Starting at €8.20
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The Northwest Passage (Epilogue)
Brannen, Peter; Leonard, Herman B.Case HBS-309068-ESupplement to 309067Starting at €8.20