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Responding to the Wii
Hagiu, Andrei; Halaburda, HannaCase HBS-709448-EStrategyAfter years of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), was contemplating questions from reporters about how Sony planned to respond to Nintendo's Wii console, which was dramatically leading Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's...Starting at €8.20
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Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil
Bell, David E.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-511015-EMarketingFor Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest production cost of any edible oil, palm oil constituted an abundant, inexpensive source of food for Asian and, to a lesser extent, international markets. Its production had soared from 1970 to 2010, sparking concern from environme...Starting at €8.20
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Tunaiku: An Innovative Indonesian Fintech Navigates Regulatory Ambiguity
Marleen Dieleman; Ishtiaq P. MahmoodCase IVEY-9B20M036-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn late 2018, the chief executive officer and founder of Tunaiku, a new digital consumer-lending financial technology (fintech) company in Indonesia, faced a dilemma. Although he had set out in 2014 to revolutionize Indonesia's consumer lending by providing people in the underserved lower segment of society with small unsecured loans, he now faced his most crucial challenge—dealing with Indonesia’s changing regulatory environment. When he had lau...Starting at €8.20
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Nutricia Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness, Teaching Note
Martinez-Jerez, F. AsisTeaching Note HBS-114011-EMarketingTeaching Note for 106063.Starting at €0.00
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Wattpad
Deighton, John; Kornfeld, LeoraCase HBS-919413-EMarketingHow to run a platform to match 4 million writers of stories to 75 million readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and film makers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories, and of helping writers to produce better stories by supplying feedback on their chapters as they write, all by processing a billion data points daily. But it's hard to acquire new customer groups when alg...Starting at €8.20
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Rebuilding Aceh: Epilogue
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS786-EEconomicsSupplement for HKS785.Starting at €8.20
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Ojek: Regulating Motorcycle Taxis in Jakarta
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Putri, AlifaCase HBS-KS1311-EEconomicsMotorcycles are by far the most popular form of motorized transportation in Indonesia, and are used to provide taxi-like service called ojek as well. In 2014, the two biggest providers of app-based, online booking and payment for conventional (four-wheel) taxis in Indonesia began to offer online booking and payment for motorcycle taxi rides as well. These services proved very popular, cutting sharply into the use and earnings of conventional moto...Starting at €8.20
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Waze Connected Citizens Program
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Davies, AlissaCase HBS-817035-EEntrepreneurshipDi-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company's Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data in exchange for data on anticipated road closures, re-routing, etc. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to share more reliable traffic information more quickly with drivers. Amidst limited resources, her free program had b...Starting at €8.20
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Everything or Nothing: Martti Ahtisaari and the Aceh Negotiations (A)
Sebenius, James K.; Green, AlexCase HBS-911040-EIn early 2005, Martti Ahtisaari planned negotiations to end the decades-long conflict between Acehnese insurgents and the Indonesian government that had claimed thousands of lives. The "modern" phase of the insurgency by the fighters from the Free Aceh Movement that sought independence from Indonesia had persisted for some 30 years, claiming tens of thousands dead, countless wounded and tortured, as well as economic damage estimated by the World ...Starting at €8.20
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Everything or Nothing: Martti Ahtisaari and the Aceh Negotiations (B)
Sebenius, James K.; Green, AlexCase HBS-911041-EDescribes Martti Ahtisaari's negotiating strategies and tactics along with the results of his efforts to end the decades-long conflict between Acehnese insurgents and the Indonesian government that had claimed thousands of lives.Starting at €5.74