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La Fageda
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Ricart Costa, Joan Enric; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-711452-EStrategyLa Fageda is a manufacturer of high-quality, naturally-made yogurts in northern Catalonia, Spain. La Fageda is substantially different from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed to integrate the mentally disabled by providing meaningful jobs and dignifie...Starting at €8.20
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eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (B)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Thaker, AnantCase HBS-712406-EStrategyA decade after BusinessWeek declared the competitive battle between eBay, Inc., and Amazon.com "a defining moment for e-commerce," Amazon established itself as the leader. eBay must decide what strategy to use in order to regain the upper hand: maintain its current platform business model or make a radical change by transforming itself into a services provider.Starting at €5.74
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Coursera
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Kim, HyunjinCase HBS-714412-EStrategyBy providing free and open-access online courses at a large scale, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms seek to innovate the business models of the traditional higher education industry. In a little over a year, Coursera had grown at a rapid rate to emerge as a leader of the MOOCs in terms of the number of student enrollments, courses, and partners. The case examines two aspects of these developments in the industry: (1) What choices did C...Starting at €8.20
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Uber and the Taxi Industry (A)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Mackenzie, Ian W; Dadiomov, DimitriCase HBS-715433-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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UberX & Lyft (B)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Mackenzie, Ian W; Dadiomov, DimitriCase HBS-715434-EStrategySupplement case for 715433.Starting at €5.74
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Irizar in 2005
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-706424-EStrategyIn June 2005, Koldo Saratxaga, the leader of Basque-based luxury coach manufacturer Irizar, decided to leave after 14 years at the helm of the worker-owned cooperative. Under Saratxaga's stewardship, Irizar was saved from near bankruptcy in 1991 and has become a highly profitable industry leader with a 23.9% compound annual growth rate since 1991. The company opened a number of manufacturing sites as far-reaching as Mexico, Morocco, India, Brazil...Starting at €8.20
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Launching Telmore (A)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Fernandez, Celso; Jobke, MoritzCase HBS-708414-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Includes color exhibits. When the Danish mobile phone service provider Telmore entered the market in October 2000, few people took notice. Its business model was not perceived as particularly aggressive or threatening to the industry. Less than three years later, Telmore's creative adaptation of the well-known, no-frills model of the airline industry had taken the Danish mar...Starting at €8.20
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Launching Telmore (B)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Fernandez, Celso; Jobke, MoritzCase HBS-708415-EStrategySupplement to the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Palm (B): 2001
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Boudreau, Kevin; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-708515-EThis case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the company was deciding whether to split into two separate companies; and, 2005, when the company was migrating from its own OS into Linux. (The last part, set in 2008, is an epilogue). By l...Starting at €5.74
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Palm (C): 2005
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Boudreau, Kevin; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-708516-EThis case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the company was deciding whether to split into two separate companies; and, 2005, when the company was migrating from its own OS into Linux. (The last part, set in 2008, is an epilogue). By l...Starting at €5.74