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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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Salomon Brothers (B)
Golembiewski, Christopher; Campana A.; Torres, Maximilian B.Case TD-150-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityPaul Mozer informs his supervisor, John Meriwether, about the US Treasury's letter to Mercury Asset Management, and the events that precipitated it. The decision is now Meriwether's. Should he in turn bring the problem to his superiors and the legal compliance department, a path that might result in Mozer's dismissal, harsh penalties for the firm and the loss of his traders' confidence? Or, given the SEC's stated intention of dropping the matter...Starting at €5.74
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Salomon Brothers (C)
Golembiewski, Christopher; Campana A.; Torres, Maximilian B.Case TD-151-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJohn Meriwether reports Mozer's actions to Salomon's President, Thomas Strauss, chief legal compliance officer, Donald Feuerstein, and CEO, John Gutfreund. On Feuerstein's recommendation, a decision is made to report the incident to the federal authorities. But, who will report the incident, how and to whom, the Federal Reserve Board or the more hostile Treasury Department? No plan for implementation of the decision is formulated.Starting at €5.74
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Salomon Brothers (A)
Golembiewski, Christopher; Campana A.; Torres, Maximilian B.Case TD-146-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case involves the personal decision of Wall Street government bond trader, Paul Mozer, whether or not to report a gray-area transaction he has made to his superior, John Meriwether. The stakes are very high, but the indiscretion is murky and the chances of the firm's being sanctioned for it are virtually nil.Starting at €8.20
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Salomon Brothers (D)
Golembiewski, Christopher; Campana A.; Torres, Maximilian B.Case TD-152-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityNothing has been done when the financial press reports of fishy activity in the May 22nd Treasury auction. Salomon orders an internal audit and uncovers Mozer's wrongdoing in the December 27th, February 7th, February 21st, April 25th and May 22nd auctions. The bottom drops out for all the key players from Mozer to Gutfreund and for the firm.Starting at €5.74