Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Havilah Merchants Nigeria Ltd: Generating Cash from a Company's Value Chain
Kasznik, Ron; Piotroski, Joseph; Fleming, Kweku; Augustine, CorinneCase SGSB-A235-EAccounting and ControlHavilah Merchants Nigeria Ltd. is Nigeria’s leading one-stop shop for outfitting libraries and archives. It serves three primary market segments: (i) public university libraries, (ii) multi-national companies in the oil and gas industry and (iii) banking industry. Over the years since its incorporation in 1995 , Havilah has successfully executed many library and archive projects, and its products and services have become the benchmark in the ...Starting at €8.20
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WalMart: Driving Innovation to Scale
Wilkinson, Amy; Nguyen HCase SGSB-OB109-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2014, Walmart was at an inflection point. The world’s largest company wasn’t sure how to evolve and innovate to win over the next 30 years. In a leadership change that year, Doug McMillon rose to become Walmart’s new CEO. Soon after, he hired Lori Flees, a Bain & Company partner, to lead Walmart’s Corporate Strategy and drive innovation at scale. Flees led Walmart’s acquisition of Jet.com for $3.3 billion and together with Jet founder Marc L...Starting at €8.20