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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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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Bill Ackman's Big Short of Herbalife
Vandebroek, Tom; Ferraro, Fabrizio; Simon, JanCase SM-1611-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance, StrategyThis case describes how hedge fund activist Bill Ackman took a $1 billion short position on the shares of the nutrition company Herbalife. Ackman is convinced that Herbalife's business model is essentially a pyramid scheme, rendering it unsustainable as well as illegal. The case describes his arguments and the evidence he builds on. Other hedge fund titans soon took the opposite position on Herbalife, possibly because they fundamentally disagree ...Starting at €8.20
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Deepwater Horizon: Vertido de crudo, dinero y confianza
Vaccaro, Antonino; Machado, AnaCase BE-174Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, StrategyStarting at €8.20
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CEO de You Tube Susan Wojcicki: ¿Podrá reproducir su éxito
Elvira, Marta; Isabel VillamorCase SM-1649Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyStarting at €8.20
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Metro Bank: The British Banking Revolution Begins
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1112-EFinance, Service and Operations Management, StrategyVernon W. Hill has created quite a unique bank fully focused on delivering great customer service. Previously, in the United States, his approach has been highly successful. The question is: will he be able to replicate the success in the U.K. and lead to a banking revolution? But to answer this question, one first has to fully understand what the business model is all about.Starting at €8.20
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: Can She Deliver Again?
Elvira, Marta; Villamor, IsabelCase SM-1649-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn September 2014, Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing website, discovered that Facebook - one of the leaders in the technology industry - had announced a strategic shift toward online videos. Wojcicki had been appointed YouTube's CEO in February that year, with the goal of making the website profitable. Even though YouTube's revenues had hit $5.6 billion in 2013, the website had not yet turned a profit.Starting at €8.20
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Creatively Solving Complex Problems at Great United Bank
Vilà, Joaquim; Doval, HismaelCase SM-1651-EDecision Analysis, Innovation and Change, StrategyWorking at the U.K. subsidiary of Great United Bank's private banking services division, Henry Duval needs to produce a comprehensive project brief for the Steering Committee about a design thinking project aimed at creating a banking mobile phone application for millennials.Starting at €8.20
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Mike McCready and Music Xray: Business model innovation in the music industry
Brankovic, Azra; Miller, PaddyCase DPO-246-EInnovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyThe Music Xray case study can be used as a companion case to "Polyphonic HMI: Mixing Music and Math" (HBS Publishing, 2005) or as a stand-alone case. The case captures the emergence of a new business model in response to changes wrought on the music industry by the Internet, and particularly the advent of Web 2.0.Starting at €8.20
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Chick-fil-A: Sandwiches and cultural wars (B)
de la Cierva, Yago; Notario, EduardoCase DPO-736-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe American fast-food chain Chick-fil-A suffered several boycotts promoted by LGTBQ+ organizations after the CEO's public comments regarding his religious background and because of the company's financial support to organizations lobbying against legal recognition of same-sex marriage. The following years, the company kept growing and, at the same time, its reputation was affected. What to do next?Starting at €5.74