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Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.Case HBS-404S02Leadership and People ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how she will continue to run the chann...Starting at €8.20
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Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.; Pruyne, EllenCase HBS-404S18Leadership and People ManagementPaula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her first year, she succeeded in obtaining approval for her proposed redesign and completing the physical and administrative restructuring of the high school. Now in her second year, t...Starting at €8.20
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Taran Swan en Nickelodeon América Latina (D)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.Case HBS-406S04Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent: The Three Kingdoms of the Chinese Internet
Zhu, Feng; Smith, AaronCase HBS-615039-EService and Operations ManagementThis note provides an overview of the Chinese Internet by describing its leading three companies: Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT). While BAT had previously focused their respective businesses on distinct sectors of the online economy-Baidu for search, Alibaba for e-commerce, and Tencent for games and instant messaging-the proliferation of mobile devices in China introduced new territory to be conquered. By the end of 2014, BAT had each made a s...Starting at €8.20
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SF Express: From Delivery to E-Commerce
Zhu, Feng; Lane, DavidCase HBS-616003-EService and Operations ManagementShunfeng Express (SF), China's leading express delivery firm, in May 2014 opened the first 500 of several thousand Heike stores, which allowed consumers to buy and try out SF's own e-commerce offerings, in addition to other services. As an example of China's "online-to-offline" trend in e-commerce, Heike stores allowed SF to leverage its logistics and IT expertise to differentiate itself from its rivals in express delivery. As yet unclear was whe...Starting at €8.20
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From Correlation to Causation
Zhu, Feng; Lakhani, Karim R.Case HBS-616009-EKnowledge and CommunicationTo make sound business decisions, managers must be comfortable with the concepts of correlation and causation. This background note provides an overview of correlation and causation using examples and explains why the former does not imply the latter. It also describes several methods for gaining insights into causal relations, including randomized experiments, panel data, matching, and regression discontinuity. The note is intended for a general...Starting at €8.20
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SF Express: From Delivery to E-Commerce, Teaching Note
Zhu, FengTeaching Note HBS-616018-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for case 616003.Starting at €0.00
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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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ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (B)
Zhu, Feng; Chen, Weiru; Sun, ShirleyCase HBS-618046-EInformation TechnologiesZBJ.com (ZBJ), an online platform that connects knowledge workers to small and medium-sized enterprises, is China's largest outsourcing platform. Founded by Mingyue Zhu in 2006, ZBJ had grown into a unicorn with 4,000 employees and a daily transaction volume of RMB15 million by 2017. During the company's 11-year history, ZBJ had launched ten transformation campaigns to overcome various challenges by changing its products, operations, and business...Starting at €5.74
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ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Zhu, Feng; Vo, MargaretTeaching Note HBS-619048-EInformation TechnologiesThis is the teaching note for ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (A) (618044) and (B) (618046).Starting at €0.00