HBSP (USA)
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Walmart's Workforce of the Future
Kerr, William R.; Bach-Lombardo, JordanCase HBS-819042-EStrategyFaced with intense competition from Amazon, in 2015 Walmart began a transformation of its operations and workforce. The goal was to create an omnichannel retail experience for customers that seamlessly joined online and offline shopping. This case explores Walmart's efforts to deliver this through investments in its workforce makeup and training, digital infrastructure, and automation technology.Starting at €8.20
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Turnaround to Growth (Spanish version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-810S22Leadership and People ManagementDescribes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Lou Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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IBM's Decade of Transformation: Uniting Vision and Values (Spanish Version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Austin, Robert D.; Heckscher, Charles C.; Michael, Boniface; Collins, ElizabethCase HBS-811S18Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (A). Un resumen no está disponible para este producto.Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks (Spanish version)
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-816S13EntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20
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The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.Article HBS-F1007C-EStrategyWith job growth lagging, local communities will be tempted to use tax breaks to attract big employers, but new research by Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr of Harvard Business School indicates that's a misguided approach-growth is highly correlated with an abundance of small firms, not the presence of a few big ones.Starting at €8.20
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Making Virtual Reality Real
Zhu, Feng; Mehta, Sarah; Lane, DavidCase HBS-617013-EService and Operations ManagementThis note describes virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, and describes the main consumer products on offer in 2016 and their manufacturers. It also surveys existing applications of virtual and augment reality technologies.Starting at €8.20
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Luminopia: Improving Treatment for Visual Disorders
Chung, Doug J.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-517065-EMarketingLuminopia-a start-up founded in January 2016 by three Harvard College freshmen-uses virtual reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called "lazy eye"), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of their virtual reality product, which was in use in clinical trials at Boston Children's Hospital. As the founders prepare...Starting at €8.20
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Alvarez, Jose B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-518034-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the IITA's most commercially viable products and technologies by working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria's massive youth unemployment problem...Starting at €8.20
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AEEC: Becoming an Innovation Catalyst
Applegate, Lynda M.; Weber, James; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-317011-EStarting at €8.20
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The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-318041-EFinanceIt is March 2017 and TPG, a global alternative investment firm with $74 billion assets under management, has recently launched its inaugural impact investing fund-the $2 billion Rise Fund. In an effort to "take the religion out of impact investing," Mike Stone, CIO of Rise, has partnered with Chris Addy at The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investm...Starting at €8.20