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Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?

Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter? ^ 313110

Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management...

Big Hit Entertainment and Blockbuster Band BTS: K-Pop Goes Global ^ 520125

Big Hit Entertainment and Blockbuster Band BTS: K-Pop Goes Global

Bang Si-Hyuk ('Hitman Bang') is the founder and co-chief executive officer of Big Hit Entertainment, the company behind BTS, a 'K-pop' band that has found unparalleled success around the globe-a remarkable feat given that most of their songs are in...

Cirque du Soleil ^ 403006

Cirque du Soleil

Retaining talent is an issue for any company whose success relies on the creativity and excellence of its employees. This is especially true for Cirque du Soleil, the spectacularly successful "circus without animals," whose 2,100 employees include 500...

GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership ^ 399150

GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership

GE is faced with Jack Welch's impending retirement and whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch era. After briefly describing GE's heritage and Welch's transformation of the company's business...

Pinckney Street ^ 813182

Pinckney Street

Although inexperienced in real estate, Edward Alexander hopes in June 2013 that youthful enthusiasm and an $240,000 in savings and inheritance will help him enter the real estate business. His experience chronicles the process of finding, evaluating, and...

Army Crew Team ^ 403131

Army Crew Team

The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first...

Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand ^ 518024

Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand

The Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). The launch of the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was enthusiastically received by Millennial consumers,...

Trader Joe's ^ 714419

Trader Joe's

The Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Based on a variety of metrics, Trader Joe's ranked as one of the most successful grocers in the United...

Amazon.com, 2021 ^ 716402

Amazon.com, 2021

In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit...

Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance ^ 803127

Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance

Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story of crisis, survival, and triumph. Summarizes Shackleton's career as an officer in the British Merchant...

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations ^ 221039

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

The Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their...

Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market ^ 824055

Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market

Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in...

Shredder Setups or Straightlining into Risk?: Investing in What You Love ^ 224018

Shredder Setups or Straightlining into Risk?: Investing in What You Love

Bob Hall, President of Green Gables Partners, evaluated whether to angel invest into an up-and-coming ski brand. As the son-in-law of the founder of Vera Bradley and having retired from a lengthy career on Wall Street, Hall was well-versed in both direct...

Meals on Wheels London: Operations That Matter ^ W37011

Meals on Wheels London: Operations That Matter

The executive director of Meals on Wheels London (MOWL) was struggling with a lack of volunteers to deliver meals to the not-for-profit organization's customers. MOWL provided nutritional support for adults with disabilities and older people who required...

ALUS: Letting Growth Take Root ^ W36840

ALUS: Letting Growth Take Root

Bryan Gilvesy, CEO of ALUS, must create a proposal to spend ALUS' $100,000 marketing budget for their brand "New Acre Project". The brand had experienced good growth in previous years, but sales had stagnated for the past two, creating concerns about the...

Adani Group: Managing the Hindenburg Controversy ^ W36375

Adani Group: Managing the Hindenburg Controversy

In March 2023, the Adani Group experienced a sharp decline in market value, losing over $150 billion. This downturn followed allegations from US short-seller Hindenburg Research, which accused Gautam Adani of inflating his net worth to $120 billion over...

Zentaku Kogyo Company: Less Is More ^ W36371

Zentaku Kogyo Company: Less Is More

Contrary to the typical practice of cutting operating expenses by compromising on employees' benefits, the chairman of Zentaku Kogyo Company Ltd. (Zentaku), David Wu Chongrang, aimed to improve the standard of living of his staff by steadily raising...

Hotel Annapoorna: Is Change Management and Leadership at a Crossroads? ^ W36264

Hotel Annapoorna: Is Change Management and Leadership at a Crossroads?

This case encapsulates the challenges faced by Jegan Damodaraswamy in extending the core competency of quality and customer service for the renowned Hotel Annapoorna, in Coimbatore, India. In addition, he had to figure out how to overcome the hurdles...

Continuity in Change: Bhima Jewels' Transformation Journey ^ W36262

Continuity in Change: Bhima Jewels' Transformation Journey

Bhima Jewels ("Bhima") was a household name in southern India, where the company had built up a loyal clientele spanning three generations over its 97 years in business as a retailer in the jewellery sector. In 2015, Abhishek Bindu Madhav, the grandson...

Jio World Plaza: Bridging the West and the East in Luxury Branding ^ W36256

Jio World Plaza: Bridging the West and the East in Luxury Branding

The latest offering by Reliance Brands Limited (an undertaking of Reliance India Limited) under the aegis of the Jio brand was Jio World Plaza (JWP), an ultra-luxurious mall with breathtaking architecture and an upscale range of brands and services,...

Bigship: Strategic Issue Management during COVID-19 Crisis ^ W36247

Bigship: Strategic Issue Management during COVID-19 Crisis

Bigship Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Bigship), an Indian courier aggregator start-up, made its mark in the industry as late entrant during the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2023, the chief executive officer and co-founder was struggled with emerging issues...

DMart in 2023: From Offline Triumphs to Online Trials ^ W36218

DMart in 2023: From Offline Triumphs to Online Trials

In December 2023, Avenue Supermarts Limited, operating as DMart, celebrated its robust performance in the offline retail sector in India. Since its establishment in 2002, DMart had built a sizable network of profitable offline stores, showcasing...

Soma Solutions: Preparedness and Sustainability during and Post-crisis ^ W36205

Soma Solutions: Preparedness and Sustainability during and Post-crisis

Soma Solutions was a small consulting firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Soma Solutions had provided face-to-face, on-site information and communications technology (ICT) training on SAP and ERP to state-owned...

Fastech Fashions: A Struggle for Survival ^ W36157

Fastech Fashions: A Struggle for Survival

Fastech Fashions Private Ltd. was founded in Rourkela, India in 2017 with the goal to elevate the livelihoods of traditional Odia weavers. By 2022 the company had experienced notable success, focusing on T-shirts, school uniforms, traditional handicraft...

BoAt Lifestyle: Exploring Strategies to Sustain the Growth Momentum ^ W36149

BoAt Lifestyle: Exploring Strategies to Sustain the Growth Momentum

BoAt Lifestyle (boAt), a digital-first consumer products company founded in New Delhi, India, by Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta in 2014, had launched its first products (wired earphones and headphones) two years after a thorough market study. Over time, the...

Surana & Surana International Attorneys: Business Opportunity or Conscious Business Philosophy? ^ W34839

Surana & Surana International Attorneys: Business Opportunity or Conscious Business Philosophy?

Surana & Surana International Attorneys (S&S) is a multispecialty law firm. Since its inception in 1971, it had declined to serve clients who were in the industries of meat, tobacco, alcohol, and gambling (M-TAG). In early March 2023, a large opportunity...

Nykaa: Time to Redefine Customer Experience ^ W34787

Nykaa: Time to Redefine Customer Experience

Nykaa E-Retail Limited (Nykaa) has come a long way since its founding in 2012 by Falguni Nayar in Mumbai, India, establishing itself as a prominent participant in the e-commerce and retail industry. Not only has Nykaa revolutionized the field of online...

Stacked: A Manufacturing Inventory Exercise ^ W34748

Stacked: A Manufacturing Inventory Exercise

On December 6, 2023, Shirley Rose, owner of the toy manufacturer Stacked, was reviewing the company's financial performance for its fourth fiscal year, ending November 30, 2023. Stacked manufactured toy wooden blocks in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Rose...

Hayes Public Relations: A Financing and Investing Exercise ^ W34746

Hayes Public Relations: A Financing and Investing Exercise

On September 5, 2023, Luke Hayes, owner of Hayes Public Relations (HPR) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was reviewing the company's financial performance for its seventh fiscal year. Having already reviewed the company's operating decisions for the previous...

Daikin Airconditioning India Pvt. Ltd.: Expanding Markets from India to Africa and the Middle East ^ W34599

Daikin Airconditioning India Pvt. Ltd.: Expanding Markets from India to Africa and the Middle East

In March 2023, Daikin India had reached the milestone of US$1 billion in turnover. It aimed to surpass $2 billion in the next three years. It had fared poorly in the Indian market since its entry in 2000, but after joining the company in 2010, Kanwal...

Asude's Digital Social Innovation for Improving Learning Outcomes ^ W34474

Asude's Digital Social Innovation for Improving Learning Outcomes

This case study explores the various digital interventions (DIs) used by the Asude Foundation (Asude) in delivering education to students from low socio-economic sections in Aurangabad, India, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact on students'...

MedoPlus: Delivering Health Care to Rural India ^ W34202

MedoPlus: Delivering Health Care to Rural India

MedoPlus is a startup working in the space of rural health care in India. Its pilot is currently running in five districts near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. The MedoPlus model connects villagers to the nearest health-care facility through an app mediated by...

Rao's Dilemma: Addressing Issues in Selection Practices ^ W34114

Rao's Dilemma: Addressing Issues in Selection Practices

The recently appointed placement officer at a prestigious business school in Bangalore, India, faced an unexpected challenge in the placement process involving a diligent second-year master of business administration student. The student's encounter with...

Love In Store: A People + Tech + Payments Company ^ W25645

Love In Store: A People + Tech + Payments Company

Aditya Goel, co-founder of Love In Store Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Love In Store), had had a great run despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which started in 2019. Goel and his technology partner had created Love In Store as an entrepreneurial venture that...

How a Good Strategy Can Fail: Leadership Lessons from Napoleon's Rise and Fall ^ IN1977

How a Good Strategy Can Fail: Leadership Lessons from Napoleon's Rise and Fall

Napoleon was a blue ocean strategist ahead of his time. With his innovative approach to military warfare, he reshaped conventional war strategies. But despite his outstanding and innovative war strategies, success eluded him in the end. His rise through...

DSM: Turbocharging Sustainable Resins (B) ^ IN1973

DSM: Turbocharging Sustainable Resins (B)

DSM (A) and (B) tell the remarkable story of how Helen Mets, EVP of DSM's Resins & Functional Materials business (DRF), generated considerable value for DSM by pursuing a radical sustainability strategy, steering DRF to a 12.4x multiple when it was sold...

DSM: Turbocharging Sustainable Resins (A) ^ IN1972

DSM: Turbocharging Sustainable Resins (A)

Farmgirl Flowers: Cultivating Success by Selecting Strategic Partners to Enhance Its Bouquet Deliveries ^ W36145

Farmgirl Flowers: Cultivating Success by Selecting Strategic Partners to Enhance Its Bouquet Deliveries

Christina Stembel, the founder and CEO of Farmgirl Flowers Inc., has always emphasized quality, speed, and efficiency in her San Francisco-based online flower delivery company. Her teams have operated like assembly lines, shipping 10,000 bouquets daily...

Il Pianoforte: The Sound of Entrepreneurship ^ W36091

Il Pianoforte: The Sound of Entrepreneurship

In February 2007, Diego Papalia, founder and owner of Ottawa Pianos, was getting ready to meet with his daughter, Carmen, to discuss the strategic future of the company. Five years prior, the father-daughter duo had started separate projects within the...

Scandinavian Building Services: Preserving the Past and Ensuring the Future ^ W35309

Scandinavian Building Services: Preserving the Past and Ensuring the Future

On October 31, 2017, Terry Hay, patriarch of the Hay family and leader of the family business, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer and given three weeks to live. This grim prognosis placed the Hay family on an unexpected trajectory and forced...

CenturyPly Laminates: Redesigning the Supply Chain ^ W35179

CenturyPly Laminates: Redesigning the Supply Chain

CenturyPly India Limited (CPIL), a large wood panel products company with a supply network spread across India, had four main product lines, including laminates. In April 2020, the company's laminates range was a growth focus for management on account of...

Street Business School: Social Entrepreneurship for Women Living in Poverty ^ W34902

Street Business School: Social Entrepreneurship for Women Living in Poverty

Street Business School (SBS) employed an innovative social-franchise model aimed at providing entrepreneurship training to one million impoverished women worldwide. Originating as BeadforLife, a non-profit organization that connected women in Uganda who...

Hyundai's Fate in Pakistan ^ W34884

Hyundai's Fate in Pakistan

In 2022, the manager of Hyundai Nishat Motor (Private) Limited was ambitious to expand the company in Pakistan and continue its hard-earned growth. His first step was determining whether the expansion plan was worth it. But how could he estimate the cost...

Jane Win Jewelry: A Winning Model? ^ W36228

Jane Win Jewelry: A Winning Model?

Since its beginning in 2018, Jane Win LLC, a nimble and lean start-up selling amulet jewellery pieces, had seen immediate success. From the company's inception, its founder, Jane Winchester Paradis, assessed the advantages and disadvantages of an...

UNAIDS Office of Innovation: Changing the Landscape of Healthcare Innovation ^ IN1965

UNAIDS Office of Innovation: Changing the Landscape of Healthcare Innovation

In September 2020, Pradeep Kakkattil was facing difficult questions about his team's strategic direction. In the two years since he had founded the Office of Innovation at UNAIDS - the United Nations agency for coordinating global action on AIDS - the...

Creating a Blue Ocean Beyond Disruption: The Case of a Chinese B2B Retailer - Huitongda ^ IN1970

Creating a Blue Ocean Beyond Disruption: The Case of a Chinese B2B Retailer - Huitongda

This case describes how the Chinese company Huitongda created a B2B platform to systematically connect rural mom-and-pop shops with urban-market-based suppliers, thereby opening a brand-new market for itself and contributing to the modernizing...

Beyond Sustainability: Innovation, Regenerative Design, and Affection at Blue Hill ^ IN1968

Beyond Sustainability: Innovation, Regenerative Design, and Affection at Blue Hill

The Blue Hill case follows the journey of Dan Barber, one of the world's leading chefs. Having understood the limitations of the "substitution" model of sustainability, he redesigns his restaurant as an innovation lab for the food industry, seeking to...

Hockey Canada: To Accept or Not Accept ^ W37000

Hockey Canada: To Accept or Not Accept

This case explores the complexities and challenges that can arise when evaluating a job offer that involves a potential conflict between an individual's passions and their professional prospects and personal relationships. In January 2023, Stephanie...

A Note on Tokenization and Tokenized Assets ^ W36668

A Note on Tokenization and Tokenized Assets

This note is about tokenization and tokenized assets. Tokenization refers to the process of creating a representation of a particular asset on a blockchain via digital tokens. Tokenized assets typically derive their value from the value of the underlying...

From Philanthropy to Collaboration: André Hoffmann Launches InTent ^ IN1975

From Philanthropy to Collaboration: André Hoffmann Launches InTent

This case is about the decision-making process that led André and Rosalie Hoffmann to establish InTent, a non-governmental organization that forges action-based partnerships that fight for sustainable solutions for business, people and planet. The...

The Annenberg Foundation: Promoting Diversity in the Investment Management Industry ^ 224065

The Annenberg Foundation: Promoting Diversity in the Investment Management Industry

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Video Vault owners struggle to determine the optimal level of stocking in the home video industry is fraught with new technologies, new paradigms of pricing and stiff competition from large national chains . Learning Objective:. To demonstrate the role of incentive contracts in achieving supply chain coordination "Hide on VG Narayanan, Lisa Brem Source: Harvard Business School 10 pages. Publication Date: March 25, 2002. Prod. #: 102070-PDF-ENG

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