HBSP (USA)
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The Competitive Battle Continues (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-914S12StrategyDescribes the development of the global strategies and organizations of two major competitors in the consumer electronics industry. Over four decades, both companies adapt their strategic intent and organizational capability to match and counter the competitive advantage of the other. The case shows how each is faced to restructure as its competitive advantage erodes.Starting at €8.20
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Storming into the U.S. Market (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Gordon, Rachel; Lafkas, JohnCase HBS-918S10StrategyThe RoboTech case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative product (a specialized surgical robot) in an unfamiliar market segment (spinal surgery) and decides to enter the unfamiliar, distant U.S. healthcare market, which is characteri...Starting at €8.20
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Kentucky Fried Chicken (Japan) Ltd. (Spanish version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Rangan, U. SrinivasaCase HBS-318S12StrategyDescribes the internationalization of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain, focusing on KFC's entry into Japan. An entrepreneurial country general manager, Lou Weston, battles numerous problems to establish the business and is eventually highly successful. In doing so, Weston ignores or circumvents policies and control from KFC's headquarters and becomes very upset when more sophisticated planning, coordination, and control systems be...Starting at €8.20
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El rol de Miles Everson en PricewaterhouseCoopers
Eccles, Robert G.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-410S23Leadership and People ManagementMiles Everson, socio de PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), es el socio del encargo Mundial (GEP) para una gran institución financiera EE.UU. y punto de asumir este papel de una institución financiera global mucho mayor. El papel GEP es crítica en PwC. GEPs tienen la responsabilidad de los clientes más grandes e importantes de la empresa. Deben gestionar una vasta red externa de los empleados y clientes de forma igualmente masiva a la red interna de lo...Starting at €8.20
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Womenomics in Japan
Groysberg, Boris; Yamazaki, Mayuka; Sato, Nobuo; Lane, DavidCase HBS-417002-ELeadership and People Management"Womenomics in Japan" profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy--not as a matter of social policy or gender equity per se, but as an essential element of any solution to Japan's persistent low economic growth. Several decades of economic stagnation led Abe to spearhead a multi-faceted reform effort to shake off deflation and come to grips...Starting at €8.20
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Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; Hsieh, Nien-he; Lane, DavidCase HBS-418055-ELeadership and People ManagementIn September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia's exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and sold a smaller bank with similar exposure, whose collapse nonetheless made it the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia's impending bankruptcy, the FDIC interven...Starting at €8.20
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Zurich Insurance, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, David; Coughlin, JoniTeaching Note HBS-418071-ELeadership and People ManagementThis teaching note addresses six cases in the Zurich Insurance series, the overview case (HBS No. 417-035) and five cases focused on particular change efforts (HBS No. 417-036 through 417-040). Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The overview case provides backgrou...Starting at €0.00
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Lincoln Financial Group (A)
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-508028-EMarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €8.20
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Lincoln Financial Group (B): Making LFD a Reality
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-508029-EMarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €5.74
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Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)
Edmondson, Amy C.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-613003-EService and Operations ManagementThis case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assessed the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through informal knowledge marketplaces and sharing networks, Danone had helped managers connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierar...Starting at €8.20