WebMD (B)
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Strategy & Execution
Amazon’s HQ2 (C): Choices
Amazon’s first bid for a second headquarters (HQ2), published in September 2017, attracted a lot of attention and eventually proposals from 238 cities and regions in North America. In this case, it is about the company’s decision to split its HQ2 into two locations and the resulting reaction from local politicians and the public.
Auction Vignettes, Answers & Discussion
Complement the case.
Pandesic: The Challenges of a New Business Venture (A)
Pandesic is a joint venture between SAP and Intel with the goal of developing turnkey information architectures for market research companies. The case examines the problems in the development of the joint venture from the perspective of its general management. Describe the development of your strategy and organization. At the end of the case, performance …
Growth Is the Dynamic Confluence of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Values
The author has examined common growth beliefs and the US growth model and finds no support for them in any area of economic research. Instead, he offers the Organic Growth Index, the result of ten years of research from the Batten Institute at the Darden School. Six keys to organic growth are presented and successful …
Designing a Surgical Quality Improvement Project at Eastern State Medical Center
In this case, the challenges, benefits, and costs of hospital participation in a widely recognized benchmarking program aimed at improving surgical quality are examined. The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP¬Æ) reports twice a year to participating hospitals and benchmarks based on data submitted by more than 500 hospitals. Participation …
Adam Baxter Co./Local 190: 1985 Negotiation, Baxter Management Confidential Information
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a familyowned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing inflation of the 1970s, management considered drastic changes. Management and labor would undergo a series of negotiations …
Google: Should “Dragonfly” Fly?
In 2018, China was the world’s largest Internet services market. In addition to the huge size of the market, the comparatively low penetration made the country an immensely attractive market for search engine services. To conquer this market, Google planned to re-enter the Chinese market after exiting the market in 2010 with a censored search …
Desso (B): Going Forward
Supplement to the LBS138 case
VMware and the Public Cloud (B)
Complement case (A).