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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Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products (Spanish version)
McGahan, Anita M.Case HBS-703S39StrategySunrise's CEO must decide whether to intervene in a decision by a division, Guardian Products, to introduce a new lightweight standard wheelchair. Guardian wants to introduce the wheelchair to complement its line of commodity crutches, walkers, and other patient aids. If introduced, the new wheelchair will compete with an existing product offered by the largest and most profitable Sunrise division, Quickie Designs. The CEO hesitates to take actio...Starting at €8.20
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Nota sobre posicionamiento competitivo
McGahan, Anita M.Case HBS-703S41StrategyHace hincapié en la conexión entre las actividades de una empresa y sus precios, costos y volúmenes. Una empresa obtiene una ventaja competitiva cuando se adopta un sistema de actividades interrelacionadas que generan profitabiltiy superior. Describe brevemente las estrategias de diferenciación y de bajo costo.Starting at €8.20
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Contraataques estratégicos: Coca Cola frente a Pepsi
Kou, Julia; McGahan, Anita M.Case HBS-703S46StrategyDescribe las adquisiciones estratégicas de Coca-Cola y Pepsi-Cola a finales de 1980. El contexto permite a los estudiantes para evaluar las implicaciones de las fusiones para la competitividad de la industria.Starting at €8.20
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Passion for Learning (Spanish Version)
Keller, Greg; McGahan, Anita M.; Coxe, Dale O.; Ganot, IsraelCase HBS-717S12StrategyDescribe los desafíos que enfrenta un recién graduado de HBS que ha comenzado una compañía de juguetes de correo directo. El empresario debe evaluar las condiciones de la industria, tanto en los juguetes y el correo directo, y determinar si ha desarrollado un concepto de negocio viable. Presenta detallan las proyecciones financieras asociadas con cada uno de los tres principales opciones de reposicionamiento.Starting at €8.20
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3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Mohammed, AfrozeCase HBS-395017-EKnowledge and CommunicationA middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by a struggling business unit. Describes the long, difficult process by which the unit has developed the pStarting at €8.20
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Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts
Tripsas, Mary; Bhatia, Amit; McGahan, Anita M.Case HBS-812032-EEntrepreneurshipUSAP faces extraordinary opportunities to change the way that automobiles are serviced in the US by selling parts at fair prices though online channels.Starting at €8.20
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Asea Brown Boveri (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Bartlett, Christopher A.Case HBS-102S43StrategyIn 1987, two European rivals--Asea AB of Sweden and BBC Brown Boveri Ltd. of Switzerland--merged to form Asea Brown Boveri. The new company employed 150,000 employees in 850 legal entities operating in 140 countries. The case describes the challenges facing Percy Barnevik--the organization's leader--and how he resolved those challenges through staffing, communicating priorities, new structural alignments, and information and reporting systems.Starting at €8.20