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Primedic-Providing Primary Care in Mexico
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Cuellar, Regina Garcia; Margulies, LaurenCase HBS-811040-EEntrepreneurshipPrimedic is a Mexican start-up that aims to deliver affordable primary and preventative healthcare to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding, and the business model has yet to gain traction. How should the business model be changedm and should the venture capitalists continue to fund the company?Starting at €8.20
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Chances Are Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg
Halaburda, Hanna; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-711417-EStrategyThe case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system and their desirability (or lack thereof) depending on the context (the broader business system) within which they are implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to...Starting at €8.20
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salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Cuellar, Regina Garcia; Moy, ValeriaCase HBS-814041-EEntrepreneurshipIn May 2013 the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth and to fulfill its mission of Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico. salaUno had grown from doing 75 cataract surgeries in its first month of operation to a high of 388 surgeries 21 months later. Th...Starting at €8.20
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Developing an App for That, Teaching Note
Halaburda, Hanna; Gans, JoshuaTeaching Note HBS-711535-EStrategyTeaching Note for 711415.Starting at €0.00
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Pemex (B): The Rebound
Musacchio, Aldo; Maurer, Noel; Cuellar, Regina GarciaCase HBS-713052-EEconomicsSupplement for case 713051Starting at €5.74
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Developing an App for That
Halaburda, Hanna; Gans, Joshua; Burbank, NathanielCase HBS-711415-EStrategyAt a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party apps as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose which mobile development software platform to invest in. Written from the perspective of an established consumer bank that is about to commence development on its first downloadable ap...Starting at €8.20
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Agriculture in Mexico
Bell, David E.; Cuellar, Regina Garcia; Scott, CintraCase HBS-513065-EStarting at €8.20
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Analyzing Relative Costs (Spanish version)
Rivkin, Jan W.; Halaburda, HannaCase HBS-713S11Strategyto anticipate how a rival is likely to react to a price change; to predict how a price war may evolve; to test whether a cost advantage it believes it has is real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an acquired company might be reduced and what a reasona...Starting at €8.20
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Analyzing Relative Costs
Rivkin, Jan W.; Halaburda, HannaCase HBS-708462-EStrategyIntroduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the intricate quantitative analyses that strategists undertake, relative cost analysis may be the most common. The goal of a relative cost analysis is simply to estimate how a company's costs compare to a rival's. Companies examine relative costs for a host of reasons: to anticipate how a rival is likely to react to a price change; to predict ho...Starting at €8.20
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Chances Are Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg, Teaching Note
Halaburda, HannaTeaching Note HBS-711449-EStrategyTeaching Note for 711417.Starting at €0.00