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Knowledge Management at Sasol: Learning Each Lesson Only Once
Authors: Duffy, N.; Murray, T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersrand
Publication Year: 2007
This case considers the implementation of knowledge management to all strategic business units, key to the global strategy of Sasol.
Business Cycles and Employment Practices in a Domestic Garment Company (A, B)
Authors: Byrne, Keely; Detert, Jim
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Year: 2005
How should your management team address the apparel company's excess labor problem during the upcoming period of slow sales?
Hilti: Our Culture Journey (Abridged)
Authors: Ward, J; Lief, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2006
Culture at Hilti was inseparable from strategy. So when challenged at several points in their history, the company relied on the strength and underpinnings of its corporate culture to see it through. Now, with new governance changes afoot, Hilti would need to leverage this valuable resource once again.
Keller Williams Realty
Authors: Baron, James N.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Describes the economic and cultural models that have led to the success of Keller Williams Realty. Evaluates the interaction of a company's corporate strategy, culture, and organizational practices as a source of competitive advantage.
GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Limited
Authors: Yen, Benjamin; Lee, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Source Asia Case Research Center, University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2006
In 2006, GOME faced the challenge of tuangou, or group purchase. In order to amass bargaining power to demand discounts from retailers, consumers with similar needs in China united through the Internet and showed up en masse at retailers at pre-arranged times and dates.
Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings Plc Of Sri Lanka (A, B)
Authors: Wee, Beng Geok; Buche, Ivy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Asian Business Case Centre
Publication Year: 2008
In September 2008, Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings PLC (ASHH), a leading Sri Lanka hotel group was well known for the iconic resorts it owned and managed, including Heritance Kandalama, a resort which had won many international awards for its ecological and environmental practices.
Capitec Bank: Low-Cost Banking for Joe Average
Authors: Mosala, T.; Townsend, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersrand
Publication Year: 2007
Capitec Bank, which began specializing in microlending, expands services to its entry level clients. This case discusses how to increase its target market, and change the Bank's image to an all service bank.
Procomp Informatic: Stepping on Ethical Landmines in Asia
Authors: Woo, Claudia H.L.; Lau, Amy
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
This case is about the collapse of Procomp Informatics Ltd, a major Taiwanese chipmaker, which has been regarded by Taiwan's market watchdogs as similar to the scandal of the US energy giant Enron in 2001.
Interport-Kovel: Cargo Transhipment Terminal
Author: Batenko, Ludmila
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kiev State University of Economics
Publication Year: 1998
This case describes a proposal to develop a cargo transhipment terminal at Kovel, Ukraine, with plans to link to the European transportation network. In the wake of the Ukraine's independence, there is general agreement around the social, economic and political goals of the project...
(PRODUCT) RED (A, B)
Authors: Chen, David; Moon, Youngme; Norton, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
These cases describe the launch and initial results of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, a social marketing initiative conceived of by U2's Bono and Bobby Shiver to combat AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Lucent Technologies
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Publication Year: 1999
Lucent was created in 1994 as part of AT&T's tri-vestiture. This case focuses on the dilemma faced by a new company that inherited a labor-management consultation structure developed by AT&T, a structure that has broken down in many respects, and that does not seem adequate to the challenges of the new company in a new and highly competitive market...
IBERDROLA: A Utility's Approach to Sustainability and Stakeholder Management
Authors: Jacopin, Tanguy; Poisson-de Haro, Serge; Fontrodona, Joan
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2008
In July 2004 José Ignacio Sánchez Galán, the CEO of the second largest Spanish utility by size, reflected on his first three years as CEO and his decision to put sustainability at the core of IBERDROLA’s strategy.
De Beers: Addressing the New Competitiveness Challenges
Authors: Marciano, S.; Porter, Michael E.; Warhurst, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In this case, De Beers faces critical choices about both its economic and social policies and how they interrelate. The teaching purpose is to examine how firms create prosperity, how firms are responsible for social problems, and what they should do in the locations in which they operate.
The Roller Coaster Ride
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Balog, Steve; Haimson, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Presents a detailed account of power dynamics that unfold in the firm when one of its best and brightest threatens to leave. Focuses on the dynamics of attracting, retaining, compensating, negotiating, and leveraging a star performer in a professional services firm...
Cisco Goes to China: Routing an Emerging Economy
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Kiron, David
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School
Authors: Bonoma, Thomas V.; Clark, Bruce H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1987
Hurricane Island Outward Bound, a small, nonprofit school that helped pioneer experiential education in the United States, has recently recovered from a financial crisis.
C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (Abridged)
Author: Hammond III, John S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Coolidge (CKC), a chemical manufacturer, is being sued for patent infringement. An analyst at CKC has done a breakeven decision analysis from CKC's perspective, balancing going to court with settling out of court.
Capital Alliance Nigeria
Authors: Hills, Stephen; Ijose, Olumide
Product Type: Cases
Source: Tusculum College
Publication Year: 2005
Dick (American), a former Arthur Andersen Partner, and Okey (Nigerian), a Harvard MBA with private equity experience in the United States and South Africa, set out to build a collaborative high performance institution that would operate under industry best practices. In the process they encountered significant cross-cultural challenges in a country with an entrenched bureaucratic culture, no private equity experience, and a dearth of trained individuals possessing the requisite skills.
Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or…?
Authors: Strimling, Andrea L.; Paine, Lynn S.; White, Wilda L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the other, a group of female employees of the Stroh Brewery Co. charge that the company's advertising creates an overall atmosphere of hostility to women...
Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell
Authors: Higgins, Robert F.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Describes the start up of Viacord, a Boston-based medical services firm specializing in the storage of newborns' umbilical cord blood. The case details the conceptualization and launch of the business and the many obstacles and expenses faced in the company's first seven years.
Phase Two: The Pharmaceutical Industry Responds to AIDS
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Bartlett, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Describes how major pharmaceutical firms changed their strategy and pricing policies in the years 2000 to 2002 to respond to the growing AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law and the Embezzlement of NT$3 Billion by Eddie Liu (A, B)
Authors: Chiang, Y.; Rowe, W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Dr CV Chen received news that one of Lee and Li's senior assistants had found a loophole in a power of attorney from one of the firm's clients, SanDisk Corporation (SanDisk), that had allowed him to illegally sell the client's shares in a Taiwanese company and to sneak out of Taiwan with over NT$3 billion.
KPMG: A Near-Death Experience
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Sherman, Eliot
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case demonstrates a significant professional services firm dilemma.
Caspian Oil and the Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline: International Relations Meets International Business
Authors: Horton, Raymond D.; Ruseckas, Laurent
Product Type: Cases
Source: Columbia University
Publication Year: 2000
The central issue is whether the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), an international oil consortium developing oil in the Caspian Sea, should build a pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, Turkey. The case describes the 'power vs profits' framework of the dispute and concludes with an interactive spreadsheet that lets users make their own assumptions about key political and economic variables that will determine AIOC's decision...
BP Alternative Energy International Ltd: The Birth of BP Wind Energy
Authors: Kaufmann, L; Ehrgott, M; Feldhues, M; Frank, F; Kaltzakorta, A; Wilms, E
Product Type: Cases
Source: WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
Publication Year: 2007
This case study takes place in the wind energy market and presents the strategic market entry options of BP (British Petroleum) Alternative Energy.
Kendall Square Research Corp.
Author: McFarlan, F. Warren
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue recognition practices were questioned and the answers were devastating. This case discuses revenue recognition practices of new entrants to the computer industry and appropriate standards for auditors of the reports of such companies.
Mearl Oil Company: Environmental Impact Targets (A, B, C)
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Ewart, Tom
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Mearl Canada Limited does not want to implement Mearl Oil Company's environmental impact targets because, in Mearl Canada's opinion, the targets create an extra layer of regulation for considerable cost and negligible benefit...
Stanley Works and Corporate Inversion
Authors: Moffett, M.; Davison, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2003
This case uses the example of Stanley Works to introduce students to the current corporate inversion phenomenon - the change in country of incorporation of the parent company of a multinational group of companies, from the US to a tax haven country - and the extraordinary controversy surrounding these changes.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Development Strategy
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Bell, Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Despite revenues in excess of $93 million in 1998, the world-renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute constantly faces an operating shortfall.
Walking the Walk: Putting Social Responsibility into Action at the White Dog Cafe
Authors: Phillips, D; Phillips, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
This case is designed to examine the issue of corporate social responsibility in a small firm.
Mount Auburn Hospital
Authors: McAfee, Andrew; Macgregor, Sarah; Benari, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Mount Auburn Hospital is preparing to introduce a physician order entry (POE) system throughout the hospital, starting with the labor and delivery ward, with consequences for both provider operations and patient outcomes. Shows students the complexities of introducing a novel information technology into an unautomated organization.
SK-II China: Managing Public Relations
Author: Roberts, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This case helps students to appreciate the complexity in resolving PR crisis in international markets. It also helps them to understand the profound impact one PR crisis can have on even the most established brands.
AccuForm: Ethical Leadership and Its Challenges in the Era of Globalization
Authors: Woo, Claudia H.L.; Wong, Raymond; Lau, Amy
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2006
AccuForm, a German-Hong Kong joint venture specializing in the production of chemical coatings for application to garments, is confronted with a situation where an unauthorized Chinese manufacturer had stolen one of AccuForm's experimental coatings, applied it to their own brand of clothing, and sold it to the public as an AccuForm product.
American Airlines (A, B, C)
Author: Loveman, Gary W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
After having signed a very expensive new contract with its pilots' union in early 1991, American is now faced with the challenge of increasing productivity and controlling costs for its other employee groups.
Catamount Energy and the Glebe Mountain Wind Farm – Clean Energy versus NIMBY
Author: Letovsky, Robert
Product Type: Cases
Source: St. Michaels College
Publication Year: 2005
The case presents the arguments both for and against wind generated electricity, or turbine wind farms. This debate is taking place as the state of Vermont considers placement of a wind turbine farm in the mountains of the state.
Financial Restatements: Methods Companies Use to Distort Financial Performance
Authors: Tayan, Brian; Rajan, Madhav V.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2008
Over the last 10 years, the number of publicly traded companies that have had to restate financial results has risen dramatically.
Manila Water Company
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Wheeler, David; Comeault, Jane
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the post-privatization performance of the Manila Water Company in Manila, and the positive effects their emphasis on good corporate governance and sustainable development had on the city's residents, many of whom live in poverty.
Benziger Family Winery
Authors: Silverman, Murray; Lanphar, Tom
Product Type: Cases
Source: San Francisco State University, College of Business
Publication Year: 2003
Matt Atkinson, Ranch Manager at Benziger Family Winery, was overseeing the development of the winery's environmental management system (EMS). It was February, 2003 and Matt and Chris had already invested countless hours in the EMS, which was being developed with assistance from the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). Through their EMS Winery Pilot Project, Cal/EPA hoped to design an EMS template that eventually could be made available to other wineries. Matt and Chris had to decide whether to aggressively pursue ISO 14001 certification...
Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?
Authors: Bruns, Sharon; Harmeling, Susan S.; Bruns, William J., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing Brief Cases
Publication Year: 2008
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At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007.
UBS and Climate Change: Warming Up to Global Action?
Authors: Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Reinhardt, Forest; Raabe, Elizabeth A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The teaching purpose of this case is to decide whether UBS should go beyond its legal obligations to help mitigate climate change.
Coca-Cola's Business Practices
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR
Publication Year: 2006
The case discusses some of the alleged controversial business and labor practices of The Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola) and its bottlers in a few countries.
Saving B-A-C-H
Authors: McKinley, Mary; Smirnova, Daria
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESCEM School of Business and Management
Publication Year: 2006
Irina, the Foreign Relations Manager of the chamber orchestra, B-A-C-H, must prepare a marketing plan to help the orchestra deal with myriad of problems at once: (1) creating a brand image; (2) developing new products; (3) increasing revenues without losing its traditional audiences at home in Ekaterinburg; (4) fending off foreign competition; and (5) increasing musicians' salaries so that they won't be forced to find other employment.
Starbucks Coffee: The Dorosin Issue (A)
Authors: Rosenthal, David; Boyd, Thomas C.; Feldman Barr, Terri
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1998
Starbucks is faced with a public-relations nightmare. Jeremy Dorosin, a customer claimed that an espresso machine he purchased was defective and that one was a used machine falsely sold as new. Despite the company's efforts at resolving the difficulties, Dorosin had not been satisfied...
Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace
Authors: Gentile, Mary C.; Gant, Sara B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1995
This case consists of several vignettes and discussion points around issues of diversity and conflict in the workplace.
China in Africa: The Case of Sudan
Authors: Abrami, Regina M.; Ajambo, Eunice
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk.
Malden Mills (A, B)
Authors: Nohria, Nitin; Gurtler, Bridget; Piper, Thomas R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company...
Malaysia in the 1990's
Author: Reinhardt, Forest
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1997
Focuses on Prime Minister Mahathir as the principal architect of Malaysia's economic and social policy. Designed to introduce a semester-length course on Business, Government, and the International Economy...
Cofidis
Author: Wathieu, Luc
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2001
An offspring of French catalog marketer 3 Suisses, and a popular sponsor of Tour de France, Cofidis sells consumer credit over the phone, defying conventional banking with a product policy and a communication strategy that perfectly fits the company's comparative (dis)advantages...
Models of Corporate Governance: Who's the Fairest of Them All?
Authors: Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2008
This case is intended for use as an introduction to corporate governance (in the U.S. and internationally) or as a synopsis of global governance issues.
Burt's Bees
Authors: Wathieu, Luc R.; Winig, Laura
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the growth problems associated with Burt's Bee's anti-commercial, pro-consumer positioning. More generally, to discuss managing growth, pricing, distribution, branding, entrepreneurship, and product development inspired by consumer trends.
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