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Supply Chain Collaboration at JD.com
Yinan Qi; Paul W. Beamish; Xin Li; Ke GongCase IVEY-9B21D009-EService and Operations Management, StrategyAt the November 2019 Open Day conference, the vice-president of JD.com shared his understanding of the role that supplier collaboration played in an uncertain environment. Through 15 years of fast growth, JD.com had become the largest business-to-consumer platform in China with more than 30,000 suppliers. Using a boundless retail strategy, JD.com had to build a seamless channel from supplier to customer, which required a close look at how to coll...Starting at €8.20
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Jiemo Net: How to Position a Profit Model
Miao Cui; Yupan Guo; Yan Zhao; Sitara Aziz; Tuo Li; Xin LiCase IVEY-9B17M021-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyJiemo.net (Jiemo), an Internet-based study-abroad consultant agency headquartered in Dalian, China, began in 2010 by providing application support to customers who wished to apply to study abroad. In 2014, the company discovered that profit existed in providing services to students once they had been accepted to study abroad. Jiemo changed its traditional pricing model, used social media marketing, and collaborated with other agencies to establis...Starting at €8.20
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Olam International, Teaching Note
Bell, David E.; Shelman, MaryTeaching Note HBS-509056-EMarketingTeaching Note for [509002].Starting at €0.00
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OSI in China
Bell, David E.; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-513045-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. OSI, one of the world's largest suppliers of processed meats to McDonald's and other QSRs, was in the middle of a $400M expansion in China that included backward integration into poultry production. However, its current customers took only a portion of each bird produced and OSI had to develop a go-to-market strategy for the rest. The case describes the opportunities and cha...Starting at €8.20
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K&N's: Health and Happiness for Pakistan, Teaching Note
Bell, David E.; McLoughlin, Damien P.; Shelman, MaryTeaching Note HBS-513077-EStrategyTeaching Note for 512002Starting at €0.00
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Hisense: Breaking Recurring Channel Conflict
Miao Cui; Xin Li; Heng Wu; Wanling LiCase IVEY-W26698-EMarketing, StrategyHisense Group Co. Ltd. (Hisense) was a leading manufacturing enterprise in the Chinese household appliance industry. In 2010, Hisense began to lay out its online channels. At that time, the same products had different prices in different channels, which caused fierce channel conflicts. To solve this problem, Hisense segmented online and off-line products and took a series of actions to help off-line channels improve efficiency and reduce prices. ...Starting at €8.20
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Yum! China (Spanish version)
Bell, David E.; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-517S06StrategySince the first KFC opened in China in 1987, Yum--under Sam Su's leadership--had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging one new restaurant opening a day for the past five years, in 2010 Yum ran over 3,600 restaurants in 650 cities and employed over 250,000 people, many of them college students in their first jobs. In the third quarter of 2010, Yum China's revenues surpassed U.S. revenues for the first time and ma...Starting at €8.20
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COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd., Teaching Note
Bell, David E.; Shelman, Mary; Morton, SarahTeaching Note HBS-509045-EMarketingTeaching Note for [508079].Starting at €0.00
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K&N's: Health and Happiness for Pakistan
Bell, David E.; McLoughlin, Damien P.; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-512002-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 2011 Khalil and Adil Sattar are considering growth opportunities for K&N's, their family business that is the market leader for processed chicken and value-added chicken products in Pakistan. This position has been built through a strategy of vertical integration, product innovation, and branding. K&N's has also developed its own chain of retail "Chicken Stores" to promot...Starting at €8.20
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EasyLife: Developing a Regional E-Commerce Platform
Miao Cui; Xin Li; Yan Zhao; Sitara Aziz; Yupan Guo; Linhai GuoCase IVEY-9B17M032-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAfter several years of effort, Dalian Zhongding Information Co. (DZI) had become the leading prepaid card distributor in Liaoning Province. When government regulations and the rise of online third-party payment options sent the prepaid card business into decline, DZI transformed itself into an online intermediary by building a regional e-commerce platform offering fast home delivery, mainly of supermarket products. Despite its marketing efforts, ...Starting at €8.20