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Kola Real: La expansión internacional
Ferré, Miguel; Natividad, GabrielCase PAD-DG-C-406EntrepreneurshipDescribe el caso de la internacionalización de una empresa peruana en varios países de la región, partiendo de unos modestos inicios en Ayacucho (1988). Se puede discutir la similitud o diferencias en la forma de nacer según el contexto de cada país.Starting at €8.20
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NTT DoCoMo: El futuro de Internet sin cables
Bradley, Stephen P.; Sandoval, MatthewCase HBS-702S09StrategyNTT DoCoMo se estableció en 1992 y se convirtió celebró públicamente en 1998. Este caso pistas de cómo DoCoMo se convirtió en la primera compañía de telefonía móvil en Japón y cómo su servicio i.mode revolucionó el mercado de la telefonía celular.Starting at €8.20
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Crown Cork & Seal in 1989 (Spanish version)
Bradley, Stephen P.; Cavanaugh, SheilaCase HBS-702S11StrategyDescribes the structure and recent trends of the metal container industry, Crown's successful strategy for competing in the industry, and John Connelly's leadership over more than 20 years. In 1989, William Avery succeeded Connelly as CEO and is forced to consider new strategic options in the face of industry change.Starting at €8.20
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Spanish version)
Bradley, Stephen P.; Ghemawat, Pankaj; Foley, SharonCase HBS-706S15StrategyThe case 'Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.' focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with its Supercenters, a combination supermarket and discount store. Wal-Mart experienced a drop in the value of its stock price in early 1993, which it ...Starting at €8.20
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Martingale Asset Management LP in 2008, 130/30 Funds, and a Low-Volatility Strategy (Spanish version)
Viceira, Luis M.; Tung, Helen H.Case HBS-218S15FinanceIn early July of 2008, William (Bill) Jacques, Chief Investment Officer at Martingale Asset Management, a quantitative value-oriented investment manager in Boston, Massachusetts, was busy preparing for an upcoming meeting with the group that made new product decisions within the firm. The objective of the meeting was to review the backtesting and real-time investment results of a new minimum-variance strategy within the framework of a 130/30 fund...Starting at €8.20
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SoJo: Modeling Social Enterprise
Kanika Gupta; Melissa Leithwood; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B13M103-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySoJo is an online resource hub — optimized for web and mobile — focused on helping early-stage social innovators turn their ideas into action. Founded in Canada as a for-profit venture in 2010, the company depends mainly on volunteer part-time staff and competes for traffic in cyberspace with its own content providers. Many skeptics doubted the idea would ever work: why would content providers forego traffic on their own sites by relinquishing th...Starting at €8.20
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The Art of Social Entrepreneurship: Dakshina Chitra and Madras Crafts Foundation (MFC) in India
Oana Branzei; Sonia MehrotraCase IVEY-9B12C005-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe case traces the milestones of a 26-year history of a social entrepreneur creating a social enterprise, Madras Craft Foundation (MCF). The story leads up to a three-decade retrospective on the role social ventures play in our lives. Based on the entrepreneur’s critical reflection, the case shows how the paths of the social entrepreneur and the social enterprise became closely interwoven. After MCF had been self-sufficient for three years, the ...Starting at €8.20
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NPI in China: Organizing for Social Good
Oana Branzei; Yanfei HuCase IVEY-9B13M122-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyNPI is a Shanghai-based social venture that actively promotes social innovation and cultivates social entrepreneurs by granting crucial support to start-up and small- to medium-sized grassroots non-profit and non-governmental organizations. The company was founded in 2006 when the Chinese government had loosened its restrictions on private donations to charitable causes and cautiously welcomed private non-profit organizations to enter the social ...Starting at €8.20
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Honey Care Africa (A): A Different Business Model
Oana Branzei; Michael ValenteCase IVEY-9B07M022-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe founding entrepreneur of Honey Care Africa revitalized Kenya’s national honey industry by focusing on small-holder farmers across the country. Central to success was an innovative business model: a synergistic partnership between the development sector, the private sector, and rural communities that drew on the core competencies of each party as well as their complementary roles. This tripartite model was combined with local manufacturing of ...Starting at €8.20
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Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation: Pengassan
Oana Branzei; David WheelerCase IVEY-9B08M075D-EStrategyThe goal of the Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation is to illustrate the challenges in anticipating points of common interest, and the difficulties of overcoming initial antagonistic conditions in order to work together to develop better positions. The simulation illustrates the tensions, trade-offs, and challenges involved in mapping and addressing competing stakeholder demands in a long-standing conflict where players' positions...Starting at €8.20