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Rabobank Corporate Netherlands: Turning the Smartphone into an Engine of Bottom-Line Growth
Stremersch, Stefan; Camacho, NunoCase M-1286-EMarketingSet in late 2011, this case study enables the discussion of a bank's possibilities to develop new business amid drastic technological and macroeconomic changes promising to revolutionize the whole payment value chain. In particular, several emerging technologies - such as near-field communication (NFC) - promised to turn mobile payments into a trillion-dollar industry in a period of less than five years. The case invites students to step into the...Starting at €8.20
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Alcatel-Lucent: Marketing the Cell Phone as a Mobile Wallet
Camacho, Nuno; Verniers, Isabel; García Pont, Carlos; Stremersch, StefanCase M-1279-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingAlcatel-Lucent (ALU) was gearing up for the launch of a new business: mobile payment services. Mobile payment involves cash transactions between consumers and merchants or between consumers using their mobile phones. The emergence of a new technology in which ALU had strong expertise - near-filed communication (NFC) - represented a huge opportunity, as analysts expected the market for mobile payments to explode in the coming years. But to avoid p...Starting at €8.20
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Alessandro Mueller: How to Become an Entrepreneur by Making the Numbers Work
Ruman, Szczepan; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-862-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceAlessandro leaned back in his chair. Through the windows of his home office in Aachen, Germany, he could already see the sunrise and he was not even close to making his buyout model work. Two days from now, on March 13, 2012, he had to deliver the model for this opportunity to his investors. But how could he get their desired IRR and at the same time maintain the stake he wanted to have in this investment? He put away a can of Coke that he was ab...Starting at €8.20