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La organización del negocio de productos para el consumidor de HP: la distribución de impresoras por Internet
Lal, Rajiv; Prescott, Edith D.; Kalyanam, KirthiCase HBS-502S32MarketingEn la primavera de 1998, Pradeep Jotwani, vicepresidente y director general de la Organización de Empresas de Productos de Consumo de Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), estaba contemplando el éxito cada vez mayor del comercio electrónico y sus implicaciones para su división. El grupo de productos de consumo había comenzado a vender impresoras restauradas a través de un centro de venta de Internet en diciembre de 1997, pero ahora se Jotwani considerando un...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home
Lal, Rajiv; Johnson, ScottCase HBS-518035-EMarketingAmazon, Google, and Apple all offer their own smart speaker. The devices represent the each firm's entry point into the connected home market. All three companies come into the space with their own strenghs and weaknesses. Who will win?Starting at €8.20
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iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba
Lal, Rajiv; Johnson, ScottCase HBS-518055-EThe makers of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, connected the latest version of their product to the Internet. This new feature opened up a wealth of new opportunities and challenges for the company.Starting at €8.20
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Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity, Teaching Note
Lal, RajivTeaching Note HBS-509074-EMarketingTeaching Note for [506055].Starting at €0.00
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Target: Responding to the Recession
Gulati, Ranjay; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-510016-EMarketingWithin 10 months of Gregg Steinhafel's taking over as CEO at Target, the U.S. was mired in the most significant economic downturn in 50 years. Top competitor Wal-Mart had positioned itself well for the crisis, while Target's same store sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and...Starting at €8.20
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Gentera: Beyond Microcredit
Lal, Rajiv; Mazzanti, LisaCase HBS-515017-EMarketingGentera, whose largest subsidiary is Compartamos Banco, has been a fantastically successful endeavor since it started in the 1990s. But in 2014, Gentera faces challenges in expanding beyond group-lending and micro-credit into microfinance and beyond in order to fulfill its mission of financial inclusion.Starting at €8.20
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Sirum: Scaling a “Tech-for-Good” Medication Donation Platform
Siegelman, Russell; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E815-EEntrepreneurshipKiah Williams started SIRUM as a Stanford undergraduate alongside her classmates Adam Kircher and George Wang. Nearly two decades later, the medication donation nonprofit was now operating in five states across the country and had helped facilitate medication donations to reach 150,000 uninsured and underinsured patients. SIRUM’s technology enabled donors with excess medication supply to donate unexpired, sealed, non-opioid medications to those...Starting at €8.20
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Total Venture Design: Creating and Delivering Value
Holloway, Charles; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E823-EEntrepreneurshipCharles Holloway, founder of Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, shares his reflections and learnings on entrepreneurship in this teaching note. Designed to be a hands-on tool for aspiring entrepreneurs, this playbook will frame key questions and provide frameworks to assist in building new ventures.Starting at €8.20
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Ascend Behavior Partners: Hiring in a Tight Labor Market
Carroll, Glenn; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-SM355-EStrategyAscend Behavior Partners provided applied behavioral analysis (ABA) services to families with children with autism. The growing autism services market presented a massive opportunity for Ascend to provide quality care to families in need. Ascend’s delivery model relied on board certified behavior analysts (BCBAs), who were the backbone of providing care to families with children with autism. But the severe imbalance between supply and demand f...Starting at €8.20
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Facelift at Olay (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Lal, Rajiv; Gupta, Sunil; Hull, OliviaTeaching Note HBS-521040-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note to to 521011, 521002, and 521701.Starting at €0.00