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Rakuten: To Stay or Not To Stay In The UK
Naoto Nadayama; Arto LindblomCase IVEY-9B20M022-EStrategyIn 2016, Rakuten, the largest e-commerce company in Japan, was at the crossroads of its UK operations. After 2008, Rakuten had accelerated internationalization, mainly by acquiring local e-commerce companies. In the foreign markets, Rakuten leveraged its e-commerce platform model, with which it had achieved huge success in the Japanese e-commerce market in the 2000s. In 2011, it acquired UK-based e-commerce company, Play.com. At that time, Play.c...Starting at €8.20
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New World Disorder (Spanish version)
Checa, Nicolas; Maguire, John; Barney, JonathanArticle HBS-R0308EEconomicsthat a healthy economy and a sound financial system make for political stability and that countries in business together do not fight each other. The number one priority of U.S. foreign policy was, thus, to encourage the former Communist countries of Europe and the developing nations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to adopt business-friendly policies. Private capital would flow from the developed world into these countries, creating economic ...Starting at €8.20