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Regional Strategies for Global Leadership (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R0512FStrategyhome base, portfolio, hub, platform, and mandate. Some companies adopt the strategies in sequence, but the most nimble switch from one to another and combine approaches as their markets and businesses evolve. At Toyota, for example, exports from the home base continue to be substantial even as the company builds up an international manufacturing presence. And as Toyota achieves economies of scale and scope with a strong network of hubs, the comp...Starting at €8.20
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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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Before You Split that CEO/Chair (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-F0604JLeadership and People ManagementWhat's the rationale for dividing the roles of chairman and CEO? Studies show that, usually, doing so has no effect on the company's performance.Starting at €8.20
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Choosing a Charitable Giving Vehicle, Teaching Note
Pozen, Robert C.; Desai, Mayur; Graul, Maura A.Teaching Note HBS-314074-ETeaching Note for 314073.Starting at €0.00
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Malcolm Life Enhances Its Variable Annuities
Pozen, Robert C.; Pearlman, David J.Case HBS-311041-EThe case involves an insurance CEO choosing between different designs for a variable annuity product in light of hedging, marketing, and pricing issues. The case provides students with background on the economics and regulation of life insurance and variable annuities. Then it asks students to calculate the returns on capital of different product designs for a variable annuity based on specified assumptions including a range of hedging scenarios.Starting at €8.20
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The Cosmopolitan Corporation (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R1105FStrategyNever mind what you've heard about the world being flat. Today's global landscape is marked by unbalanced growth, protectionism, and ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Differences still do matter. The ideal of a truly global, stateless corporation has become popular, but it simply isn't possible to achieve, says the author. Look at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. A major player from Australia to the United Kingdom to the United Sates, ...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