Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Innovation at Caterpillar: The D7E Tractor
Carroll, G; Hoyt, DCase SGSB-SM223-EStrategyIn 2009, Caterpillar shipped its first D7E tractor, an “electric drive” machine in which electric motors moved the tracks and blade, using electricity from a generator powered by a diesel engine. In an industry where new products provided performance gains of just a few percent, the D7E moved 10 percent more material per hour, using 10-30 percent less fuel that its predecessor. It was also easier to operate, had 40 percent fewer moving parts, a...Starting at €8.20
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Coppersea: Emergence of the Microdistillery Movement - Teaching Note
Glenn Carroll, Davina DrabkinTeaching Note SGSB-SM233TN-EStrategyBy the spring of 2013, Michael Kinstlick and Angus MacDonald had been running a microdistillery for less than a year. Coppersea, located in New York’s Hudson Valley, produced handcrafted spirits using a unique process based on techniques little-used over the past 300 years. The founders had coined the term Heritage-Methods distilling to describe their process. Although Coppersea was still working to develop a stable and consistent production p...Starting at €0.00
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Coppersea: Emergence of the Microdistillery Movement
Glenn Carroll, Davina DrabkinCase SGSB-SM233-EStrategyBy the spring of 2013, Michael Kinstlick and Angus MacDonald had been running a microdistillery for less than a year. Coppersea, located in New York’s Hudson Valley, produced handcrafted spirits using a unique process based on techniques little-used over the past 300 years. The founders had coined the term Heritage-Methods distilling to describe their process. Although Coppersea was still working to develop a stable and consistent production p...Starting at €8.20
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Havilah Merchants Nigeria Ltd: Generating Cash from a Company's Value Chain
Kasznik, Ron; Piotroski, Joseph; Fleming, Kweku; Augustine, CorinneCase SGSB-A235-EAccounting and ControlHavilah Merchants Nigeria Ltd. is Nigeria’s leading one-stop shop for outfitting libraries and archives. It serves three primary market segments: (i) public university libraries, (ii) multi-national companies in the oil and gas industry and (iii) banking industry. Over the years since its incorporation in 1995 , Havilah has successfully executed many library and archive projects, and its products and services have become the benchmark in the ...Starting at €8.20