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1. Introduction to Strategic Setting
Description Management Setting: Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry Russia; Food analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of industry; $25 corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal diversification, million revenues; and location issues. Ice-Fili is the largest ice cream producer in Russia in Ice-Fili 2002 2002, but is facing strong competition from Nestle despite its success over Michael G. Rukstad; Sasha other multinational competitors. Contains detailed exhibits, allowing Mattu; Asya Petinova deeper analyses. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students to strategy. Product#: 703516 Subjects Covered: Business policy, Competition, Competitive strategy, Corporate strategy, Emerging markets, Five forces, Food processing industry, General management, Industry analysis, Manufacturing industry, Russia, Strategy formulation. Setting: Description: United States; Focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount Retail industry; operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify large; $68 billion into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. revenues; 440,000 industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with its Stephen P. Bradley, Pankaj employees; 1994 Supercenters, a combination supermarket and discount store. Wal-Mart Ghemawat, Sharon Foley experienced a drop in the value of its stock price in early 1993, which it Pub. Date: September 18, still has not made up. Wal-Mart has advantages over its competitors in 2003 areas such as distribution, information technology, and merchandising, to Product#: 9-794-024 name a few. Subjects Covered: Competition, Discount department stores, Industry structure, Strategy formulation, Strategy implementation. Setting: A modest health and tennis club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to United States; become one of the major firms in the $14 billion U.S. health club industry Fitness industry; in 2004. Throughout its history, Bally had faced its share of challenges as $954 million it rose to become a leading health club operator. The last couple of years revenues; 22,200 had proven particularly difficult, however: Bally's stock price had collapsed, employees; 2003- it restated earnings in 2003 to the chagrin of stockholders, and the U.S. 2004 Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating the company's Bally Total Fitness accounting procedures. Also, Bally faced significant competition from the John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. likes of privately owned 24 Hour Fitness, which had $1 billion in sales in Raabe 2003. In 2004, under the direction of CEO Paul Toback, the company Pub. Date: November 14, streamlined advertising efforts--targeting undertapped segments of the 2005 population--cut costs, and modified the firm's internal controls. Product#: 9-706-450 Management's focus remained on increasing membership and maximizing revenue per member. Would Toback's efforts get the company's price back up, inspire stockholder confidence in Bally, and resist a rumored takeover, enabling Bally to remain a major player in the industry? A rewritten version of earlier cases. Subjects Covered: Accounting, Competitive strategy, Five forces, Health, Industry analysis, Industry structure, Profits, Service organizations. Nucor at a Crossroads Setting: Description: Publication Date: Aug 31, Charlotte, NC; Nucor is a minimill deciding whether to spend a significant fraction of its 1992 Steel industry; net worth on a commercially unproven technology in order to penetrate a Availability: In Stock Fortune 500; $1 large but hitherto inaccessible segment of the steel market. This case is an Author(s): Pankaj Ghemawat, billion assets; 1987 integrative one designed to facilitate full-blown analysis of a strategic Henricus J. Stander III investment decision. Type: Case (Field) Subjects Covered: Product Number: 9-793-039 Capital investments, Competition, Economic analysis, Expansion, Revision Date: Technological change. Jan 20, 1998 Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Length: 22p 2. Strategic Leadership Setting Description Setting: GE is faced with Jack Welchs impending retirement and whether anyone United States; can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Global; $100 billion Welch era. After briefly describing GEs heritage and Welchs revenues; 293,000 transformation of the companys business portfolio of the 1980s, the case GEs Two-Decade employees; 1981- chronicles Welchs revitalization initiatives through the late 1980s and Transformation: Jack 1998 1990s. It focuses on six of Welchs major change programs: The Welchs Leadership Software Initiatives, Globalization, Redefining Leadership, Stretch Christopher A. Bartlett; Meg Objectives, Service Business Development, and Six Sigma Quality Wozny 1999 24 pages Subjects Covered: Business policy, Competitive strategy, Conglomerates, Product#: 399150 Corporate culture, Corporate strategy, Executives, General management, Leadership, Management of change, Manufacturing industry, Organizational behavior & leadership, Organizational change, Organizational development, Service industry, Strategy implementation, Upper management. Howard Schultz and Seattle, WA; Retail Investigates the entrepreneur's strategic initiatives to develop a mass Starbucks Coffee Company industry; $2.2 market for specialty coffee in the 1980s and 1990s. These initiatives Publication Date: billion revenues; included the development of premium products, rapid expansion of Feb 13, 2001 37,000 employees; company-owned stores--each with attractive retail environments and Revision Date: 1982-2001 responsive customer service--and, especially, the creation of a strong Sep 30, 2005 brand. Also devotes considerable attention to how Schultz built the Availability: In Stock Starbucks organization, examining the consistent emphasis that he and his Author(s): colleagues placed on the company's relationship with its employees, how Nancy F. Koehn Schultz financed Starbucks' early expansion, how vertical integration Type: Case (Pub Mat) ensured quality control, and how--strategically and operationally--the Product Number: 9-801-361 company managed its phenomenal domestic and international growth after Length: 40p 1993. Teaching Note Setting: Description: Boston, MA; United Benaree Wiley, an African American, female HBS graduate (class of 1972), States; 5 was appointed CEO and president in 1991 of The Partnership, a Boston- employees; 2005 based nonprofit dedicated to developing leadership potential in professionals of color and in increasing their representation in area businesses and institutions. The organization suffered from a lack of unity Bennie Wiley at The among the board, an unclear mission, and financial challenges, including Partnership, Inc. debt in excess of $100,000. Starting with only an administrative assistant, Laura Morgan Roberts, Victoria Wiley built the organization from the ground up, using her ability to W. Winston develop and nurture relationships as the basis for growth. In December Pub. Date: October 24, 2005 2004, Wiley announced her impending retirement, leaving the organization Product Number: 9-406-012 with the strategic challenge of moving its programs and services to a level of greater impact (beyond the Boston community), without the leadership of its heralded CEO. Subjects Covered: African Americans, Business models, Careers & career planning, Diversity, General management, Growth strategy, Leadership, Minority & ethnic groups, Nonprofit sector, Power & influence, Women in business. Setting: Description: Cleveland, OH; Genius? That is not what they were calling Bill Belichick in Cleveland. Why? Sports industry; Four losing seasons in five years. Fans hurled trash and insults. The media $100 million resented him. Ownership abandoned him. Players quit on him. Very revenues; 200 different from the three Super Bowls in five years Belichick would win with employees; 1995 the New England Patriots a few years later. Different players? Different Bill Belichick and the ownership? Different management styles? Different strategies? Different Cleveland Browns coach? Find out. What happened when the Browns hired a man who began John R. Wells, Travis Haglock studying football strategy at the age of six? A man with a degree in Product Number: 9-706-415 economics who almost became an MBA candidate before accepting a job in football that paid $25 a week. A man who was long recognized as one of the best assistant coaches in the NFL. Learn how Belichick managed the players, the coaches, the owner, the media, etc. Subjects Covered: Business history, CEO, Human resources management, Leadership, Management philosophy, Strategy formulation, Strategy implementation.
3. The External Setting Description
Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis. Crown Cork & Seal in 1989 Setting: Publication Date: United States; Mar 1, 1993 Packaging, carton Description: Revision Date: & container Describes the structure and recent trends of the metal container industry, Jul 26, 2005 industries; Fortune Crown's successful strategy for competing in the industry, and John Availability: In Stock 500; $1.8 billion Connelly's leadership over more than 20 years. In 1989, William Avery Author(s): revenues; 1989 succeeded Connelly as CEO and is forced to consider new strategic options Stephen P. Bradley, Sheila in the face of industry change. May be used with How Global Brands Cavanaugh Compete (R0409D) 8p Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch, Earl L. Taylor Type: Case (Library) Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Product Number: 9-793-035 Length: 21p Teaching Note Setting: Computer Reservation Systems (CRS) vendors have enjoyed an Global; Airline indispensable role in the travel industry--75% to 80% of all airline Computer Reservation industry; 1998 bookings are made by travel agents using CRSs. But by mid-1998, their Systems : An Industry of Its solid position in the industry is being threatened by two forces: the Web Own Sites run by airlines that are capable of accepting bookings directly from Ali F. Farhoomand, Andrew Lee customers, and a new CRS, supported by travel agencies around the Pub. Date: January 01, 2000 world, called Genesis. It is scheduled to go on trial in fourth quarter of Product#: HKU055 1998 and for launch in 1999. Subjects Covered: Corporate strategy, Electronic commerce, Five forces, Travel. Provides a broad overview of the numerous internal and external forces that were driving change in the global pharmaceutical industry in 2003. These forcesincluding downward price pressures, political and social The Pharmaceutical pressures, increased development costs, new technologies, new and Industry: Challenges in the different competitors, consolidation, and threats to its basic business New Century modelswere changing the way drugs were discovered, developed, Stephen P. Bradley; James B. manufactured, tested, regulated, marketed, sold, and purchased. A Weber rewritten version of an earlier case. 2003 (revision 2004) 32 pages Subjects Covered: Business & government, Competitive strategy, Product#: 703489 General management, Global Research Group, Industry analysis, Industry structure, Management of change, Manufacturing industry, Organizational behavior & leadership, Pharmaceuticals industry. Setting: Description: Internet & online In the wake of major competitive moves, CEO Tim Koogle and his senior services industries; team at Yahoo!, an Internet portal, must decide whether and how to $30 billion market adjust their strategy. Following deals between AOL and Netscape, Excite Yahoo!: Business on value; 900 and @Home, Infoseek and Disney, and Snap and NBS, Yahoo! faces the Internet Time employees; 1999 prospect of being the last portal without a significant partner. Students Jan W. Rivkin, Jay Girotto must grapple with the benefits and costs of integration in the rapidly Pub. Date: July 10, 1999 changing world of the Internet. Special emphasis is given to the Product#: 9-700-013 interactions among Yahoo!'s functions and the effects of those interactions on firm flexibility. Subjects Covered: Competition, Internet, Search engines, Strategy formulation. 4. The Internal Setting Environment: Resources, Description Capabilities, and Core Competencies Starbucks is faced with the issue of how it should leverage its core competencies against various opportunities for growth, including introducing its coffee in McDonalds, pursuing further expansion of its retail operations, and leveraging the brand into other product areas. The case is written so that students need to first identify where Starbucks competencies lie along the value chain, and then assess how well those competencies can be leveraged across the various alternatives. Also Starbucks provides an opportunity for students to assess what is driving growth in Mary M. Crossan; Ariff Kachra this company. Starbucks has a tremendous appetite for cash since all its 1998, 28 pages stores are corporate, and investors are betting that it will be able to Product#: 98M006 continue its phenomenal growth so it needs to walk a fine line between leveraging its brand to achieve growth and not eroding it in the process.
Corporate strategy, Entrepreneurship, Fast food industry, Growth strategy, Industry analysis, Marketing strategy, Product management, Service industry. Documentum, Inc. Setting: Description: Rajiv Lal , Sean Lanagan Silicon Valley; Describes Jeff Miller's attempt to implement Geoffrey Moore's crossing the Software industry; chasm ideas at enterprise software vendor, Documentum. Pub. Date: September 18, start-up; $2 million Subjects Covered: 2001 revenues; 20 Entrepreneurial management, Information technology, Market selection, Product#: 9-502-026 employees; 1993 Marketing strategy, New product marketing, Sales strategy, Software. Setting: Description: Palm Beach, FL; Digital Angel is considering the appropriate marketing plan for the launch 2001 of its new locator device. The device, a watch and pager worn in combination, provides GPS location information and monitors heart rate and body temperature via body sensors. Parents of young children and Digital Angel caregivers of Alzheimer's patients are the initial target markets for the Youngme Moon, Kerry Herman device, but at least 26 potential markets have been identified for the Pub. Date: November 09, product. Building a brand and generating positive word of mouth are 2001 central to the marketing plan decision. But the technology also raises Product#: 9-502-021 concerns over privacy issues, and the benefits of the product are complex and challenging to communicate. Subjects Covered: Advertising strategy, Consumer marketing, Innovation, Marketing planning, New product marketing, Product development, Product introduction, Technology. Adolph Coors in the Brewing Setting: Industry United States; Description: Publication Date: Aug 20, Fortune 500; Describes a company that had traditionally followed a strategy quite 1987 1975-1985 distinct from its major competitors', its eventual decision to imitate them, Availability: In Stock and its subsequent performance. Author(s): Pankaj Ghemawat Subjects Covered: Type: Case (Library) Beverages, Competition, Industry analysis, Industry structure. Product Number: 9-388-014 Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Revision Date: Jun 23, 1992 Length: 21p 5. Business Level Strategy Setting Description United States; In the wake of a highly successful quarter, senior managers of Airborne Airborne Express (A) Express delivery; Express, the third largest player in the express mail industry, review the Publication Date: $2.5 billion firm's competitive position. Airborne has survived, and recently prospered, Feb 5, 1998 revenues; 20,000 in an industry with significant economies of scale even though it is much Revision Date: employees; 1997 smaller than industry giants Federal Express and United Parcel Service. Dec 7, 1999 The case challenges students to understand Airborne's unusual position. Availability: In Stock Detailed data allow students to analyze Airborne's relative cost position, Author(s): the fit among its activities, the differences between Airborne and its rivals, Jan W. Rivkin and the evolution of its industry. Using these analyses, students make Type: Case (Library) recommendations concerning the firm's pricing policy, its globalization Product Number: 9-798-070 efforts, and a partnership with a related company. Designed to be taught Length: 23p in a course on business-unit strategy. May be used with Selected Exhibits Teaching Note from Airborne Express (A), Spreadsheet (9-703-751). Samsung Electronics China; Global; Publication Date: South Korea; Jun 30, 2005 Electronics Revision Date: industry; Jul 29, 2006 Semiconductor When is it possible to create a dual advantage of being both low cost and Availability: In Stock industry; $78.5 differentiated? In this case, students assess whether Samsung Electronics Author(s): billion revenues; has been able to achieve such a dual advantage, and if so, how this was Jordan Siegel, James Jinho 113,000 possible. Moreover, Samsung Electronics' long-held competitive advantage Chang employees; 2005 is under renewed attack. Students also can assess how Samsung should Type: Case (Field) respond to large-scale Chinese entry into its industry. Product Number: 9-705-508 Language: English Length: 26p Teaching Note XM Satellite Radio (A) Setting: XM Satellite Radio is a radically new way to listen to radio. Management David B. Godes, Elie Ofek Radio; 2002 must develop a marketing strategy to launch the firm and the category. A 25 pages 2003 (Update crucial aspect of the strategy is to determine which of two business models 2004) the company will pursue. Should it focus predominantly on charging Product#: 9 504009 customers a monthly subscription fee or on selling advertising time to advertisers? This decision is closely related to target market selection and to the choice of optimal price points for subscription fees and radio receivers. Market research commissioned by XM provides rich insights into these issues. In addition, XM management needs to figure out how to establish partnerships with the leading electronics manufacturers. A consideration of its market share and channel presence are essential to XMs ultimate success in integrating satellite radio into home and car audio systems. As it formulates its plan, XM needs to take into account the competitive landscape, primarily comprised of broadcast radio (AM and FM) that has been in existence for many years and is offered for free, as well as a second satellite radio provider (Sirius).
Subjects Covered: Broadcasting industry, Business models,
Communications industry, Competition, Competitive strategy, Corporate strategy, Decision making, Entertainment industry, General management, Managerial skills, Managers, Marketing strategy, Pricing, Product introduction, Product life cycle, Product management, Service industry, Services, Technology. Setting: Description: United States; Clorox's Brita skillfully exploits a tide of water safety concerns, growing a Consumer home water (filtration) business from inception to a 15% U.S. household products; $200 penetration in ten years. The dilemma in the case arises as the period of million revenues; increasing returns seems to be drawing to a close, and management must The Brita Products Co. 1989-1999 use its legacy, an installed based and a strong brand equity, to take the John Deighton business forward into a less friendly environment. Students can model the Pub. Date: August 30, 1999 relation between the primary demand for pitchers and the derived demand Product#: 9-500-024 for filters to decide where they want to put future investments. Subjects Covered: Marketing management, New product marketing, Test markets, Water pollution. Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Setting: Description: California; In early 2002, Pamela Pollace, vice president and director of Intel's Semiconductor worldwide marketing operations, is debating whether the company should industry; $26 extend its "Intel Inside" branding campaign to non-PC product categories, billion revenues; such as cell phones and PDAs. The "Intel Inside" campaign has been one of Inside Intel Inside 83,000 employees; the most successful branding campaigns in history. However, the Youngme Moon, Christina 2002 campaign is more than ten years old, and growth in the PC market appears Darwall to be stagnating. In contrast, sales of portable digital devices--such as Pub. Date: June 05, 2002 PDAs and cell phones--appear to be growing at a healthy rate. Pollace is Product#: 9-502-083 debating whether the "Intel Inside" campaign will work in these other product categories, even though Intel doesn't dominate these other markets like it does the PC market, and it isn't clear that consumers will associate Intel with these other markets. Subjects Covered: Advertising, Brands, Consumers, Direct marketing. Setting: Description: Carlsbad, CA; Golf; Describes a situation faced by Mr. Ely Callaway, the 80-year-old founder, Callaway Golf Co. $800 million chairman, and CEO of Callaway Golf Co., in the fall of 1999. After a decade Publication Date: Aug 11, revenues; 1999 of stunning success with the marketing concept, Callaway suffered a 2000 significant loss and witnessed a steep decline in sales in 1998. Mr. Availability: In Stock Callaway had built a $800 million business by making a truly more Author(s): Rajiv Lal, Edith D. satisfying product for the average golfer, making it pleasingly different Prescott from the competition and communicating the benefits to the consumer. Type: Case (Field) The results in 1998 forced Mr. Callaway to reconsider the marketing Product Number: 9-501-019 program that had successfully supported the product until now. Revision Date: Subjects Covered: Sep 26, 2005 Consumer marketing, Distribution channels, Marketing mixes, Marketing Length: 23p strategy. Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available 6. Competitive Rivalry & Setting Description Competitive Dynamics Matching Dell Global; Computer Publication Date: industry; Fortune Jun 6, 1999 500; $19 billion After years of success with its vaunted "Direct Model" for computer Availability: In Stock revenues; 1998 manufacturing, marketing, and distribution, Dell Computer Corp. faces Author(s): efforts by competitors to match its strategy. This case describes the Jan W. Rivkin, Michael E. Porter evolution of the personal computer industry, Dell's strategy, and efforts by Compaq, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Gateway 2000 to capture the benefits Type: Case (Library) of Dell's approach. Students are called on to formulate strategic plans of Product Number: 9-799-158 action for Dell and its various rivals. Language: English Length: 31p Teaching Note Cola Wars Continue: Coke Setting: Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-cola and vs. Pepsi in the Twenty-First United States; Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges of the 21st century Century Global; Beverage included boosting flagging domestic cola sales and finding new revenue David B. Yoffie; Yusi Wang industry; Fortune streams. Both firms also began to modify their bottling, pricing, and brand 2004, 24 pages 500; 2000 strategies. They looked to emerging international markets to fuel growth Product#: 702442 and broaden their brand portfolios to include noncarbonated beverages like tea, juice, sports drinks, and bottled water. For over a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had vied for the "throat share" of the world's beverage market. The most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $60 billion industry in the United States, where the average American consumes 53 gallons of carbonated soft drinks (CSD) per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle," from 1975 to 1995 both Coke and Pepsi had achieved average annual growth of around 10% as both U.S. and worldwide CSD consumption consistently rose. This cozy situation was threatened in the late 1990s, however, when U.S. CSD consumption dropped for two consecutive years and worldwide shipments slowed for both Coke and Pepsi. The case considers whether Coke's and Pepsi's era of sustained growth and profitability was coming to a close or whether this apparent slowdown was just another blip in the course of a century of enviable performance. A rewritten version of an earlier case by Michael E. Porter and David B. Yoffie. Subjects Covered: Beverages, Competition, Competitive strategy, Corporate strategy, Food processing industry, Global business, Industry analysis, Industry structure, International business Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Setting: Description: United States; Examine's Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 Retail industry; financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal- Publication Date: Sep 18, $245 billion Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the 2003 revenues; 1965- largest generator of revenues. Its international operation seems poised to Availability: In Stock 2003 become the next growth driver for the company as it marches toward the Author(s): Pankaj Ghemawat, trillion dollar sales mark. But problems are starting to surface even as the Stephen P. Bradley, Ken Mark company is winning recognition as the number one company in the Type: Case (Library) Fortune 500--unions keep pressuring its minimum-wage employees and Product Number: 9-704-430 allegations of gender discrimination are alleged. Teaching purpose: To Language: English introduce students to creating a competitive advantage. Revision Date: Subjects Covered: Jan 30, 2004 Competitive advantage, Corporate strategy, Discount department stores, Length: 32p Distribution planning, Information technology, International business, Management controls, Mass merchandising. Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Setting: Description: Global; Personal In 1980, Apple was the leader of the personal computer industry, but by computer industry; 2002 it had suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Wintel camp. This Apple Computer2002 Fortune 500; $5.4 case examines Apple's strategic moves as the PC industry evolves in the David B. Yoffie, Yusi Wang billion revenues; 21st century and poses the question: Can Steve Jobs make Apple "insanely Product Number: 9-702-469 9,600 employees; great" again? 1977-2002 Subjects Covered: Competitive advantage, Corporate strategy, Industry analysis, Strategy formulation. Setting: Description: United States; Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. Computer industry; Apple Computer, 2005 However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share Consumer David B. Yoffie, Barbara J. relative to the worldwide computer market over the past few years. Will electronics; $8.2 Mack the iPod lure new users to the Mac? Will Apple be able to produce another billion revenues; Product Number: 9-705-469 cutting-edge device quickly? 11,695 employees; Subjects Covered: 2004-2005 Computer systems, Innovation. Setting: Description: Bitter Competition: The Global; Sugars & The NutraSweet Co. has very successfully marketed aspartame, a low- Holland Sweetener Co. vs. sweeteners calorie, high-intensity sweetener, around the world. NutraSweet's position NutraSweet (A) industry; large; $2 was protected by patents until 1987 in Europe, Canada, and Japan, and Publication Date: Dec 28, billion revenues; until the end of 1992 in the United States. The case series describes the 1993 1965-1992 competition that ensued between NutraSweet and the Holland Sweetener Availability: In Stock Co. (HSC) following HSC's entry into the aspartame market in 1987. Author(s): Adam Describes the subsequent move and countermove in both the marketplace Brandenburger, Maryellen and the courts. Also, discusses the business "game" that takes place at Costello, Julia Kou both the tactical and value levels. Ends with the final countdown to the Type: Case (Field) expiration of NutraSweet's U.S. patent. Product Number: 9-794-079 Subjects Covered: Revision Date: Beverages, Competition, Food, Game theory, Patents, Strategy Nov 13, 2000 formulation. Length: 14p Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available 7. Cooperative Strategy Setting Description The Renault-Nissan Alliance Japan; France; On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, the board of directors of Renault-Nissan BV Publication Date: Automotive (RNBV) met for the first time to discuss the state of the alliance between May 9, 2003 industry; $36 Renault SA and Nissan Motors-two of the world's largest automakers. Availability: In Stock billion revenues; RNBV was a 50/50 joint venture company established in March of that year Author(s): 140,000 to oversee the strategy of the alliance and all activities undertaken jointly Michael Y. Yoshino, Perry L. employees; 2002- by Renault and Nissan. The new company would "steer alliance strategy Fagan 2003 and supervise common activities on a global level, while respecting the identity and culture of each company and not interfering in operations." Executives at both companies believed much had been accomplished in the first three years of the alliance. Nissan, under Carlos Ghosn's leadership, had improved its finances dramatically and was rapidly reemerging as a major player in the global auto industry. Moreover, the alliance partners were in line with their initial forecast of $3.3 billion in cost savings and synergies promised by 2002, according to their internal reporting. As the Type: Case (Field) board prepared to meet, Louis Schweitzer and Ghosn believed the alliance Product Number: 9-303-023 faced difficult challenges ahead. To what extent would the two companies Length: 26p be able to realize further savings and synergies, particularly in the areas of manufacturing and additional sales? How should the RNBV board address issues that had surfaced as employees of the two firms worked together across disparate corporate and national cultures, functions, and geographies? Ultimately, would the two firms be able to strike a balance between deepening their alliance while "respecting the identity and culture of each company and not interfering in operations?" Focuses on Millenniums strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticalsa fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MAhas used strategic alliances to finance the development of technology platforms based on the latest breakthroughs in genomics. As the firm considers developing pharmaceutical drugs itself, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, they face a number of challenges: 1) Can they revolutionize drug Inc. (A) development by making it more predictable, faster, and less costly? 2) Stefan Thomke; Ashok How should they select their alliances such that they move closer to Nimgade becoming a pharmaceutical firm and still attract the funding needed for Pub. Date: December 21, 1999 their strategy? 3) How can they continue to grow rapidly and attract and Product#: 600038 retain some of the best minds in the pharmaceutical industry?
Corporate strategy, Employee retention, Entrepreneurship, Financing, Innovation & entrepreneurship, Marketing, Operations management, Pharmaceuticals, , Product development, Product life cycle, Strategy implementation. Setting: Description: Switzerland; In October 2005, Urs Riedener, head of marketing at Swiss retailer Migros, Agribusiness; Food is contemplating the company's competitive position. Primarily a retailer industry; Retail for foods and near-foods products, the cooperative Migros, with close to industry; $4.2 600 retail outlets in Switzerland (but only four outside its domestic billion Swiss francs market), is facing stiffer competition, both from existing competitors (such revenues; 9,700 as Coop) and new arrivals (such as hard discounters Lidi and Aldi). employees; 2005 Riedener and Migros management have so far always had faith in Migros' Migros position in the marketplace, built around its governance structure (the Forest L. Reinhardt, Vincent customers were also the owners, creating a close link between the retailer Dessain, Anders Sjoman and the market) and its emphasis on never selling harmful products. Pub. Date: December 14, 2005 Socially, ecologically, and ethically produced products was a key aspect of Product Number: 9-706-028 Migros' product offering. Riedner knows that Migros benefited from a unique position--and he wants to make sure that Migros defends it from both new and old competitors. Subjects Covered: Agribusiness, Competitive advantage, Competitive environment, Cooperatives, Corporate governance, Environmental protection, Food, International business, Product differentiation, Social enterprise, Strategy, Supply chain. Starbucks and Conservation Setting: Description: International Global; Coffee; Starbucks, the world's leading specialty coffee company, developed a James E. Austin, Cate Reavis 2002 strategic alliance with Conservation International, a major international Pub. Date: April 01, 2003 environmental nonprofit organization. The purpose of the alliance was to Product Number: 9-303-055 promote coffee-growing practices of small farms that would protect endangered habitats. The collaboration emerged from the company's corporate social responsibility policies and its coffee procurement strategy. The initial project was in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and resulted in the incorporation of shade-grown coffee into the Starbucks product line, providing an attractive alternative market for the farmer cooperatives at a time when coffee producers were in economic crisis due to plummeting world prices. Simultaneously, the company had to deal with growing pressures from nonprofit organizations in the Fair Trade movement, demanding higher prices for farmers. Starbucks was reviewing the future of its alliance with Conservation International and its new coffee procurement guidelines aimed at promoting environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable coffee production. The nature of the industry puts the case in the global context from both the supply and demand sides. Subjects Covered: Agribusiness, Beverages, Corporate responsibility, Social enterprise, Strategic alliances. Focuses on Millenniums strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticalsa fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MAhas used strategic alliances to finance the development of technology platforms based on the latest breakthroughs in genomics. As the firm considers developing pharmaceutical drugs itself, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, they face a number of challenges: 1) Can they revolutionize drug Inc. (A) development by making it more predictable, faster, and less costly? 2) Stefan Thomke; Ashok How should they select their alliances such that they move closer to Nimgade becoming a pharmaceutical firm and still attract the funding needed for Pub. Date: December 21, 1999 their strategy? 3) How can they continue to grow rapidly and attract and Product#: 600038 retain some of the best minds in the pharmaceutical industry?
Corporate strategy, Employee retention, Entrepreneurship, Financing, Innovation & entrepreneurship, Marketing, Operations management, Pharmaceuticals, , Product development, Product life cycle, Strategy implementation. 8. Corporate Level Setting Description Strategy Describes the development of a successful corporate strategy based on the acquisition and subsequent consolidation of low-technology manufacturing companies. Starting with a company history and discussion of current business segments, the case goes on to detail the innovation of corporate Cooper Industries headquarters in strategy formulation and operations. Highlights the Corporate Strategy (A) synergistic possibilities in alike acquisitions and addresses the issue of David J. Collis; Toby Stuart long-term value creation in acquisition-oriented firms. Emphasis is placed 1991 (Update 1995) 26 pages on the systems and procedures installed to implement the corporate Product#: 391095 strategy.
Corporate strategy, Finance, Mergers, Mergers & acquisitions, Strategic planning, Strategy formulation, Strategy implementation. Setting: Description: Allianz (A1): An Insurer Germany; Financial The deal of the year in 2002, was the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Acquiring a Bank? services; 37 billion Allianz. Written from the perspectives of Allianz's CEO, Henning Schulte- Joseph L. Bower, Marc L. euros revenues; Noelle, before and after the deal and a regional manager implementing the Bertoneche, Anders Sjoman, 2000-2001 concept of a full-line financial service provider. Presents the original Sonja E. Hout question facing Schulte-Noelle: "Should Allianz acquire Dresdner?" Pub. Date: August 16, 2004 Subjects Covered: Product Number: 9-305-013 Acquisitions, Banking, Financial services, Implementation, Insurance, Strategic planning. Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA; Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, Publication Date: United States; corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Jan 12, 2006 Advertising Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to Yahoo, Revision Date: industry; Internet Microsoft, and eBay. Asks what Google should do next. One option is to Feb 21, 2006 & online services stay focused on the company's core competence, i.e., developing superior Availability: In Stock industries; search solutions and monetizing them through targeted advertising. Author(s): Software industry; Another option is to branch into new arenas, for example, build Google Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kerry $6.1 billion into a portal like Yahoo or MSN; extend Google's role in e-commerce Herman revenues; 5,000 beyond search, to encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like Type: Case (Library) employees; 2005 eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's hegemony over the Product Number: 9-806-105 PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Language: English Length: 34p A rewritten version of an earlier case. Teaching Note Newell Rubbermaid: Setting: Description: Strategy in Transition United States; Describes the transformation of a company's corporate-level strategy. Cynthia A. Montgomery, Personal care Begins by laying out the strategy that brought the Newell Co. stunning Rhonda Kaufman, Carole A. products; success for nearly three decades. The highly integrated, internally Winkler Household product consistent strategy was tailored for manufacturing and selling a particular Pub. Date: March 23, 2004 industry; $7.75 genre of products to a particular kind of customer. In the mid-1990s, Product Number: 9-704-491 billion revenues; Newell encountered some shifts in its competitive environment and a 47,000 employees; subtle erosion in profits. In 1999, the $3.5 billion company paid a 49% 2001-2003 premium to acquire the $2.5 billion Rubbermaid Co., in part for its product development process and strong consumer brands. After the acquisition, the profits of the combined enterprise deteriorated at an accelerated rate and the CEO was replaced. In less than a year, a fundamentally new strategy was announced, profits improved, and both Wall Street and major retailers were encouraged. Some setbacks followed, leading to reduced earnings and revised expectations. Exposes students to the pains and struggles of changing a deeply ingrained and long-lived strategy. Also forces them to confront the question of whether the new strategy is the right one and the markers one should seek to prove the case. Subjects Covered: Acquisitions, Competition, Corporate strategy, Mergers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic planning, Strategy formulation, Strategy implementation. 9. Acquisition and Setting Description Restructuring Strategies Hewlett-Packard-Compaq: Computer industry; The Merger Decision $70 billion Publication Date: revenues; 140,000 Apr 8, 2004 employees; 2001- Hewlett-Packard's proposed $24 billion acquisition of rival Compaq marked Revision Date: 2002 the largest merger in the history of the computer industry. The merger Sep 14, 2004 was Hewlett-Packard's response to sweeping changes impacting the Availability: In Stock technology industry. The severity of the stock market's reaction to the Author(s): deal's announcement, coupled with a "slim but sufficient" 51.4% Krishna G. Palepu, Jonathan shareholder approval margin, left many wondering whether the deal was Barnett beneficial for shareholders. Type: Case (Library) Product Number: 9-104-048 Length: 32p The Debate Over Unbundling United States; General Motors: The Delphi Automotive Divestiture and Other industry; Fortune Possible Transactions 500; $180 billion Ever since General Motors (GM) announced in February 1997 its intention Publication Date: revenues; 350,000 to divest Delphi Automotive Systems--its upstream parts manufacturing Nov 8, 1999 employees; 1999 operations--Wall Street had called for further unbundling, and various Revision Date: stakeholders competed for their claim of value represented by GM. The Jun 12, 2002 case presents GM's four options for the Delphi unit and raises valuation Availability: In Stock and governance issues regarding the remaining corporate assets. A Author(s): rewritten version of an earlier case. Malcolm S. Salter Type: Case (Library) Product Number: 9-800-196 Length: 18p Setting: Description: Marks & Spencer: The London; Retail The great U.K. retailer fell on hard times in 1998. In 2001, a new CEO was Phoenix Rises industry; 8 billion recruited who appears to have succeeded in turning around this world- Publication Date: May 2, pounds revenues; renown company. This case examines the steps he took (strategic, 2003 70,000 employees; structural, and recruiting key people) and highlights a series of Availability: In Stock 2000-2002 fundamental questions that remain. Can the company regain its premium Author(s): Joseph L. Bower retail brand given the new competition and given the breadth of market Type: Case (Field) segments that it addresses under one roof? Are the new approaches to Product Number: 9-303-096 sourcing and segmentation sound? Should the firm seriously consider Revision Date: reentering the international retail markets? Nov 17, 2005 Subjects Covered: Length: 29p Brands, Corporate strategy, Market segmentation, Teams. Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available 10. International Strategy Setting Description In 1998, Newell Co., a manufacturer of low-tech, high-volume consumer goods, acquired Calphalon Corp., a high-end cookware company, and Rubbermaid, a $2 billion manufacturer of consumer and commercial plastic products. The case focuses on Newells strategy and its elaboration Newell Co.: Corporate throughout the organization, as well as the importance of selecting Strategy appropriate acquisitions to grow the company. Do Calphalon and Cynthia A. Montgomery; Rubbermaid fit with the companys long-term strategy of growth through Elizabeth J. Gordon acquisition and superior service to volume customers? A rewritten version 1999 22 pages (updated) of an earlier case.. Product#: 799139 Subjects Covered: Acquisitions, Competitive strategy, Consumer goods, Consumer products industry, Corporate strategy, Diversification, Entrepreneurship, Growth strategy, Household products, Manufacturing industry, Mergers & acquisitions, Strategic planning. P&G Japan: The SK-II Setting: Traces changes in P&Gs international strategy and structure, culminating Globalization Project Japan; United in Organization 2005, a reorganization that places strategic emphasis on Christopher A. Bartlett States; Consumer product innovation rather than geographic expansion and shifts power 2004, 24 pages products; $38 from local subsidiary to global business management. In the context of Product#: 303003 billion revenues; these changes introduced by Durk Jager, P&Gs new CEO, Paolo de Cesare 110,000 is transferred to Japan, where he takes over the recently turned-around employees; 1999 beauty care business. Within the familiar Max Factor portfolio he inherits is SK-II, a fast-growing, highly profitable skin care product developed in Japan. Priced at over $100 a bottle, this is not a typical P&G product, but its successful introduction in Taiwan and Hong Kong has de Cesare thinking the brand has global potential. As the case closes, he is questioning whether he should take a proposal to the beauty care global business unit to expand into Mainland China and/or Europe
strategy, Cosmetics, General management, Global business, Globalization, Innovation, Innovation & entrepreneurship, International business, International management, International marketing, Japan, Manufacturing industry, Marketing, Multinational corporations, Operations management, Organization, Organizational structure, Product development, , Strategy implementation, Subsidiaries. Setting: Description: Asia; Europe; Lincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and United States; consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees Welding; $1.1 through a culture of cooperation between management and labor and an billion revenues; unusual compensation system based on piecework and a large bonus 6,300 employees; based on individual contribution to the company's performance. Despite 1988-1997 opening a few international sales and production ventures in Canada, Australia, and France, Lincoln remained focused on manufacturing in the Lincoln Electric: Venturing United States until 1988. At that time, the company's new CEO expanded Abroad manufacturing through acquisitions and greenfields in 11 new countries, Christopher A. Bartlett, Jamie attempting to transfer its unique management philosophy to each. O'Connell However, Lincoln was unable to replicate its highly productive system Pub. Date: January 14, 1998 abroad. Operational problems led to a major restructuring in the early Product Number: 9-398-095 1990s, supervised by Anthony Massaro, a newcomer to the company. In 1996, Massaro was named CEO and set about expanding the company's manufacturing base through a new strategy. The case concludes in Asia, where Lincoln's regional president is trying to decide whether and how to establish a manufacturing presence in Indonesia, and in particular whether to try to transfer Lincoln's unique incentive-driven management system. Subjects Covered: Incentives, International business, International operations, Manufacturing, Multinational corporations, Strategy implementation. Setting: Description: Appliance industry; Atlas must decide whether to acquire La Indeca, increasing its Central $43 million American presence, or to focus on larger Latin American markets where revenues; 850 higher growth is possible. In the year 2000, Jorge Rodriguez was in charge employees; 2000 of Atlas Electrica, the largest home appliance firm in Central America. Although it had almost doubled its sales in the 1990s, by the end of the decade Atlas was experiencing a declining market share in its home region Atlas Electrica: and facing increasing competition from outside the region, especially from International Strategy Mexican and Korean multinationals. At the time, Atlas' main competitor in Michael E. Porter, Arturo Condo Central America, El Salvador-based Indeca, was up for sale. Atlas Electrica, Pub. Date: November 07, based in Costa Rica, served more than a dozen Latin American countries. 2003 Since its establishment in 1961, it had served Central American markets Product#: 704435 with different types of home appliances, later focusing on white-goods for middle-income segments of Central American consumers. In the mid- 1990s, through a strategic alliance with Sweden's AG Electrolux, Atlas had expanded to Latin American markets beyond Central America. Subjects Covered: Alliances, Competitive advantage, Developing countries, Emerging markets, Globalization. Setting: Description: Global; Europe; Describes the development of the international strategies and Japan; Electronics organizations of two major competitors in the global consumer electronics Philips versus Matsushita: A industry; large; industry. The history of both companies is traced and their changing New Century, a New Round $40 billion-$60 strategic postures and organizational capabilities are documented. Christopher A. Bartlett billion revenues; Particular attention is given to the major restructuring each company is Pub. Date: September 21, 270,000 forced to undertake as its competitive position is eroded. A rewritten 2001 employees; 1970- version of an earlier case. Product Number: 9-302-049 2001 Subjects Covered: Competition, Electronics, International operations, Multinational corporations, Organizational change, Organizational structure, Strategy implementation. 11. Corporate Governance Setting Description Vivendi: Revitalizing a Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business French Conglomerate (A) context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management Cynthia A. Montgomery, John of unrelated diversification. After the companys first loss ever, the Vivendi M. Turner board elected a new chairman who completed a financial restructuring and 1998 (Update 2003) 21 articulated a new corporate strategy. His actions were in part determined pages by the French business environment, which does not easily permit staff reductions, and by the increasing importance of foreign investors in France.
Subjects Covered: Business conditions, Competitive strategy,
Product#: 799019 Conglomerates, Corporate culture, Corporate governance, Corporate strategy, Diversification, Economic conditions, Europe, France, General management, Leadership, Manufacturing industry, Organizational structure, Service industry, Vision Description: Many corporate boards adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to governance. Instead, they should consider that their primary role must shift depending on various conditions, both internal and external. Boards have four main functions--auditing, supervising, coaching, and steering--each with a different perspective and behavior. The roles reflect two main differences in board culture. The first type of board concerns itself mainly with The Case for Contingent shareholder interests or shareholder plus other stakeholder interests. The Governance focus is on externalities. The second type of board either monitors Paul Strebel executives' activities or gets actively involved in the conduct of the Product Number: 9-SMR-127 organization. Here the focus is on handling ineffective management. The basic role types are not mutually exclusive; instead they reflect different board cultures that result from different emphases on decision making and resource allocation. During any time period, a board must determine what its dominant role should be, given the current conditions. Subjects Covered: Corporate culture, Corporate governance, Corporate strategy, Leadership, Organizational behavior, Shareholders relations. Setting: Description: Atlanta, GA; Soft Provides a history of the board of directors of the Coca-Cola Co. through The Board of Directors at drink industry; $20 2003. Describes the evolution in the board's membership, practices, and the Coca-Cola Co. billion revenues; structure and the role it played in the company's governance. Questions Jay W. Lorsch, Rakesh 2002-2003 are raised about the relationship between the board and top management, Khurana, Sonya Sanchez especially how the board is carrying out its responsibilities in the 21st Pub. Date: August 11, 2003 century. Product Number: 9-404-039 Subjects Covered: Beverages, Corporate governance. 12. Strategic Setting Description Entrepreneurship Internal Entrepreneurship Europe; United at the Dow Chemical Co. States; Chemical Publication Date: industry; $28 Jan 1, 2003 billion revenues; Revision Date: 2000-2001 Jul 29, 2003 Describes how a corporate entrepreneur shapes an internal growth venture Availability: In Stock within the company, mobilizes the resources that are needed to implement Author(s): the venture, and achieves success. Complementing his entrepreneurial Bala Chakravarthy, Hans Huber behavior, however, is the support that he receives from several senior managers in the firm. Allows a careful examination of the challenges for Type: Case (Field) corporate entrepreneurship in a large multinational firm and the roles that Product Number: IMD145 senior executives have to play to support it. Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development Length: 13p Teaching Note Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA Europe; Global; Publication Date: Stockholm; Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the May 7, 1990 Sweden; Zurich; leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose Revision Date: Furniture industry; approaches redefine the nature and structure of the industry. Traces Jul 22, 1996 Retail industry; IKEA's growth from a tiny mail order business to the world's largest Availability: In Stock large; $2.5 billion furniture dealership. Describes the innovative strategic and organizational Author(s): revenues; 1989 changes Kamprad made to achieve success. In particular, focuses on his Christopher A. Bartlett, Ashish unique vision and values and the way they have become institutionalized Nanda as IKEA's binding corporate culture. The trigger issue revolves around Type: Case (Field) whether this vital "corporate glue" can survive massive expansion into the Product Number: 9-390-132 United States and the Eastern Bloc and Kamprad's replacement as CEO by Language: English a "professional manager." Length: 20p Teaching Note The Path to a Spin-off-- Describes the exploratory learning processes a new venture undergoes as Nortel Networks to it evolves its breakthrough/radical innovation--an algorithm that makes NetActive: One Form of software rentable--within Nortel Network's Business Venture Group. Details Corporate Entrepreneurship the challenges of managing under high uncertainty and within a white Publication Date: space opportunity. Focuses on the project leader and the leader of the Jan 1, 2004 Revision Date: Feb 9, 2004 Availability: In Stock Business Ventures Group as she evolves her processes for managing a Author(s): portfolio of potential breakthrough innovations. Highlights the following Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Mark P. key issues: exploratory marketing, business model creation, team Rice composition within the venture, and the venture's relationship to the Type: Case (Field) mother organization. Product Number: BAB067 Language: English Source: Babson College Length: 14p Guidant: Radiation Therapy Indiana; Medical Publication Date: equipment & Jul 25, 2000 device industry; Revision Date: $930 million Sep 12, 2005 revenues; 1996 Describes a potential new approach to treating cardiac disease--radiation Availability: In Stock therapy. Guidant, a leading medical device maker, faces a choice about Author(s): whether to pursue this new and risky technology and, if so with what Michael J. Roberts, Diana strategy. Gardner Type: Case (Field) Product Number: 9-801-040 Length: 24p Teaching Note Setting: Details the evolution of the Charles Schwab business model, from its United States; founding in 1975 to October 2002. The protagonist, David Pottruck, is Financial services; faced with re-inventing the firm as a full-service brokerage at a time of $2 billion tremendous industry instability as the industry reels from the effects of Charles Schwab in 2002 revenues; 2002 deregulation, consolidation, global economic downturn, and investor lack Lynda M. Applegate; F. Warren of confidence. Teaching Purpose: To illustrate the process of building McFarlan; Jamie Ladge businesses and evolving business models. 2002, 29 pages Product#: 803070 Subjects Covered: Business models, Competitive strategy, Electronic commerce, Entrepreneurship, Financial services, Growth strategy, Information age, Leadership, New economy, Organizational behavior, Service industry, Technology. Setting: Description: Sweden; Petroleum Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud industry; 1900- are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish 1937 Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small, family-owned match business into a $600 million global match empire. Despite the economic and political disruptions of the interwar period, Swedish Match owned manufacturing operations in 36 countries, had monopolies in 16 countries, and controlled Ivar Kreuger and the 40% of the world's match production. Kreuger companies lent over $300 Swedish Match Empire million dollars to governments in Europe, Latin America, and Asia in Geoffrey G. Jones, Ingrid exchange for national match monopolies. Relying on international capital Vargas markets to finance acquisitions and monopoly deals, by 1929 the stocks Pub. Date: November 04, and bonds of Kreuger companies were the most widely held securities in 2003 the United States and the world. After Kreuger's 1932 suicide, forensic Product#: 804078 auditors discovered that Kreuger had operated a giant pyramid scheme. His accounts were ridden with fictitious assets, the truth hidden in a maze of over 400 subsidiary companies. Swedish Match's deficits exceeded Sweden's national debt. Subjects Covered: Business government relations, Business history, Cartels, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Fraud, Globalization, International business, Multinational corporations. 13. Strategic Flexibility and Setting Description Real Options Analysis Philips vs. Matsushita: A Describes the development of the international strategies and New Century, a New Round organizations of two major competitors in the global consumer electronics Christopher A. Bartlett industry. The history of both companies is traced and their changing 2003, 20 pages strategic postures and organizational capabilities are documented. Product#: 302049 Particular attention is given to the major restructuring each company is forced to undertake as its competitive position is eroded. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
strategy, Electronics, Globalization, High technology, International business, International operations, Manufacturing industry, Multinational corporations, Organization, Organizational change, Organizational structure, Strategy implementation. Setting: Description: Boston, MA; This case looks at the turnaround at the Massachusetts Port Authority after Transportation the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It begins with the situation during the Massport (A): The Aftermath industry; $180 immediate aftermath of 9/11 and then describes how the new CEO of 9/11 million revenues; restructures the public agency to operate much more like a business Michael A. Roberto, Erika M. 1,000 employees; organization. Ferlins 2001-2004 Subjects Covered: Product#: 304081 Business government relations, Change management, Corporate culture, Leadership, Organizational design, Organizational structure, Public sector, Security, Transportation. Sampa Video, Inc. Setting: Description: Publication Date: Jun 13, 2001 A video rental store is considering offering home delivery service. 2001 Management must value the project under different financing strategies Availability: In Stock and methods, specifically adjusted present value (APV) and weighted Author(s): Gregor Andrade average cost of capital (WACC). Type: Case (Gen Exp) Subjects Covered: Product Number: 9-201-094 Capital budgeting, Capital investments, Cash flow, Debt management, Revision Date: Financial strategy, Financing, Present value, Valuation. Oct 7, 2003 Assignment Sheet and Assessment Rubric Available Length: 3p