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Forming Ties That Will Free Your Firm
Eisenhardt, K.M.; Ozcan, PinarArticle ART-1533-EStrategyStrategic alliances provide opportunities to strengthen your market position, gain new capabilities and resources, and enable you to grow and expand during difficult times. Many large, highly resourced companies already know this and are leveraging it to their advantage. But how can a small firm with fewer resources obtain and manage a high-performing alliance portfolio? Getting the alliance portfolio you dreamed of, and then managing it well ove...Starting at €8.20
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Passport to Global Success
IESE InsightArticle ART-2591-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyPlus: Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes on net neutrality; contract negotiation time; local digital marketing; preparing for an executive role; reasons for optimism in Spain; greenwashing; three powerful remedies to restore justice for organizational wrongdoing.Starting at €8.20
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Learning From the Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis article shares the insights of "entrepreneurial icebreakers" -- business pioneers who launched private companies in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and who expanded beyond national borders by clearing pathways for themselves and others into international markets around the globe. In documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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Deepwater Horizon: Spilling oil, money and trust
Vaccaro, Antonino; Machado, AnaCase BE-174-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, StrategyOn April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon¿a floating, semi-submersible, dynamically-positioned drilling unit¿exploded after a massive natural gas gusher from a natural reservoir located more than 13,000 feet under the sea floor. The explosion killed 11 people working on the platform and injured 17 others. After the explosion, an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of 87 days, causing unprecedented damage ...Starting at €8.20
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The Challenge of Multichannel Marketing Management
Clemares, Fuencisla; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1346-EMarketing, StrategyIt had been five years since Jordi Catalá, the founder and CEO of Sleeping (a manufacturer and distributor of sleep-related products and bedding), had launched his company's online channel. E-commerce now accounted for 10% of total sales and was about to reach breakeven in terms of the income statement. Tension between the traditional and online marketing teams was high, and Jordi felt like they were unable to work together and take advantage of ...Starting at €8.20
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Berlin Brandenburg International Airport
Teworte, Victoria; Martínez de Albéniz, VictorCase P-1142-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations Management, StrategyJust after German reunification in 1990, plans were made for a single, new airport to concentrate all the traffic of the new capital Berlin. Twenty-five years later, Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BER) was still not operational. The project was amassing mistakes and had already seen four delays, due mainly to the fire detection system. At the end of December 2014, the Supervisory Board announced that the airport would finally open in t...Starting at €8.20
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The KLM Approach to Alliances
Mitchell, Jordan; Ariño, Africa; Ozcan, PinarCase SM-1530-EStrategyWhen it teamed up with Northwest Airlines of the US in 1989, KLM became Europe¿s first airline to begin a major cross-border airline alliance. What followed was a series of pan-continental alliances resulting in the formation of Star Alliance, oneworld and Skyteam. This case study highlights the main milestones in the development of KLM¿s major alliances focusing primarily on Northwest with additional details on relationships with Kenya Airways, ...Starting at €8.20
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IKEA Enters Spain
Berrone, Pascual; Blázquez, María Luisa; Diego, Enrique deCase SM-1592-EStrategyThe case provides an update of the Catalan furniture industry, describing the entry and success of IKEA and the closure of half of the Catalan furniture companies. It addresses the question of why the Catalan companies did not follow IKEA's model and stresses the different configuration of the value chain.Starting at €8.20
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D-Orbit: Keeping The Thermosphere Clean
Pipan, Gregor; Tiraturyan, Armen; Massa, Lorenzo; Rosenberg, MikeCase SM-1610-EStrategyD-Orbit is an entrepreneurial start-up operating in the aerospace industry, developing a technology for the controlled removal of end-of-life debris from space. The case focuses on the nexus between strategy and (space) sustainability. The emphasis of this case is given to the role of the private sector (in this case entrepreneurial start-ups) in tackling sustainability issues by converting them into opportunities for profits. The case triggers d...Starting at €8.20