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Strategies to Fight Low-Cost Rivals (Spanish version)
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0612FStrategySlashing prices usually lowers profits for incumbents without driving the low-cost entrants out of business. Companies take various approaches to competing against cut-price players. Some differentiate their products--a strategy that works only in certain circumstances. Others launch low-cost businesses of their own, as many airlines did in the 1990s--a so-called dual strategy that succeeds only if companies can generate synergies between the ex...Starting at €8.20
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How Emerging Giants Are Rewriting the Rules of M&A (Spanish version)
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0905KStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization strategy. That's partly because developing economies grew at near double-digit rates in the past 15 year...Starting at €8.20
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Tale of Two Electronic Components Distributors (Spanish Version)
Raman, Ananth; Rao, Bharat P.Case HBS-604S15Service and Operations ManagementDiscute el papel de los intermediarios de distribución en la industria de componentes electrónicos, y describe las operaciones en dos de estos distribuidores. Sirve como un vehículo para discutir las funciones proporcionadas por los distribuidores en el canal. También permite a los estudiantes a entender las diferencias entre los distribuidores y discutir cómo cada uno de ellos va a hacer frente a cuestiones como la consolidación y el rápido crec...Starting at €8.20
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Supply Chain Optimization at Hugo Boss (B) - The M-Ratio (Spanish Version)
Raman, Ananth; Kanji, Zahra; DeHoratius, NicoleCase HBS-610S09Service and Operations ManagementEvaluamos el impacto de un piloto de la cadena de suministro en práctica de Hugo Boss. Este piloto implicaba alterar la forma en que los pedidos de Hugo Boss de sus proveedores. Exploramos el desafío de evaluar el impacto del cambio de cadena de suministro, la relación entre el rendimiento operativo y resultados de la empresa, y la relación entre las ventas, el inventario, y la disponibilidad de los productos.Starting at €5.74
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Improving the Patient Experience (Spanish version)
Raman, Ananth; Tucker, AnitaCase HBS-615S02Service and Operations ManagementHealthcare has traditionally focused on medical outcomes and financial performance. The big question is always, "How much is it going to cost?" What would happen, though, if healthcare also considered the question of "How does the patient feel?" This case looks at the Cleveland Clinic's attempt to answer the latter question by attempting to institutionalize empathy as part of its delivery of care.Starting at €8.20
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AREVA T&D (Spanish version)
Raman, Ananth; Dessain, Vincent; Damgaard Jensen, Ane; Kristinsdottir, Gudrun UrfalinoCase HBS-610S24Knowledge and CommunicationPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. El caso explora el rápido tiempo de respuesta y altamente eficaz en el negocio, centrándose en las operaciones de la división de transmisión y distribución de AREVA (T & D). La división estaba luchando en 2004, cuando recién nombrado CEO Philippe Guillemot y su equipo mejoró el rendimiento sustancialmente, centrándose en cuatro palancas de reajuste industrial - huella, apro...Starting at €8.20
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Profits in the Pie of the Beholder (Spanish version)
Corsten, Daniel; Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-F0305DService and Operations ManagementIn the early 1990s, grocery suppliers and retailers joined forces to streamline operations--an initiative called "efficient consumer response." Today, suppliers feel like they're not getting their fair share of the profits from ECR. But they stand to lose more if they give up on it, the authors say.Starting at €8.20
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Don't Be Undersold!
Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M.; Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0912K-EMarketing"Aldi" is a word that strikes fear in the hearts of brand managers across Europe. A chain of low-budget retail stores with sales of $73.5 billion in 2008, Aldi invented what is commonly referred to as the hard-discount store, a format that is destroying between a quarter and a half trillion dollars in brand sales annually. Brand executives at major consumer packaged goods companies have mostly been caught off guard by this success. The authors' r...Starting at €8.20
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Have You Restructured for Global Success
Kumar, Nirmalya; Puranam, PhanishArticle HBS-R1110J-ELeadership and People ManagementThe organizational structures of many multinational corporations are inadequate to the task of capitalizing on opportunities in emerging markets. Locating customer-facing processes in each country-and even using transnational structures that exploit location-specific advantages-just doesn't cut it anymore. So argue Kumar and Puranam, of London Business School. The authors show how the growth of China and India as lead markets and as talent pools,...Starting at €8.20
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ArcelorMittal: Consolidating the Globally Fragmented Steel Industry--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6735BC-EArcelorMittal is a Fortune 500 company with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as well as several European exchanges--but not on the Mumbai stock exchange. The company established its position as the largest steel company in the world by leveraging low-cost production operations in emerging markets throughout the globe, and thrived for decades without establishing operations of any kind in Ind...Starting at €8.20