Andrew Shipilov

Professor of Strategy
The case discusses different steps which Mastercard has followed in its digital transformation journey. They involve opportunity framing, creating innovation pathways, finding digital transformation opportunities, and innovation with partners within adaptive ecosystems.

Published 26 Feb 2018

Reference 6348

Topic Strategy

Industry Financial Services

Region Global

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This case illustrates the key role played by a local distributor in the luxury goods industry in the Middle East. By partnering with the Chalhoub Group, western firms have built a competitive advantage across the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Published 29 Mar 2017

Reference 6290

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Apparel and Fashion

Region Middle-East

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This case shows 1) the strategic importance of talent management 2) the best practice of LVMH in this regard. It illustrates how LVMH extracts synergies across maisons (“houses”).

Published 24 Feb 2014

Reference 5883

Topic Strategy

Industry Luxury Goods and Jewelry

Region Global

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This case explores the career development of professionals with strong leadership potential within an international business group - LVMH. It follows the career progression of an MBA graduate, her exposure to networks and mentors, and her international mobility.

Published 24 Feb 2014

Reference 5996

Topic Strategy

Industry Luxury Goods and Jewelry

Region Global

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The head of Tupperware Nordic faces high turnover and low motivation of the sales consultants. He seeks to understand how to use social media in innovative ways to address these challenges and to modernize the image of Tupperware. Instead of making significant investments in IT infrastructure, he uses existing social media tools and focuses on building emotional capital inside Tupperware.

Published 24 May 2012

Reference 5793

Topic Strategy

Industry E-Commerce

Region Europe

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The head of Tupperware Nordic faces high turnover and low motivation of the sales consultants. He seeks to understand how to use social media in innovative ways to address these challenges and to modernize the image of Tupperware. Instead of making significant investments in IT infrastructure, he uses existing social media tools and focuses on building emotional capital inside Tupperware.

Published 24 May 2012

Reference 5793

Topic Strategy

Industry E-Commerce

Region Europe

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The objective of this note is to help students understand the criteria according to which they can identify value innovations, that is, products or services suitable for implementation of a Blue Ocean Strategy. Not every innovation will represent a value innovation.

Published 09 Jan 2006

Reference 5398

Topic Strategy

Region Global

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This case describes the evolution of GM's strategy of establishing a network of strategic alliances with Asian companies. These relationships involved Toyota, Fanuc Robitics and a number of smaller auto manufacturers and their suppliers. It is a follow-up note to the case "General Motors' Asian Alliances" (HBS 9-388-094).

Published 01 Jul 2005

Reference 5309

Topic Strategy

Industry Automotive Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Region Global

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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 win stakeholders’ hearts and minds and embed it in the local ecosystem.

Published 15 Apr 2024

Reference 6830

Topic Strategy

Industry Restaurants

Region North America

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The case provides a strategic overview of one of the UK’s fastest-growing household goods companies, Dyson Ltd. Starting out in the early 1990s as sole vendor of bagless vacuum cleaners in the UK market, Dyson would ultimately become the market leader before its competitors finally woke up.

Published 13 Feb 2019

Reference 6455

Topic Strategy

Industry Consumer Goods Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Region Global

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The case discusses different steps which Mastercard has followed in its digital transformation journey. They involve opportunity framing, creating innovation pathways, finding digital transformation opportunities, and innovation with partners within adaptive ecosystems.

Published 26 Feb 2018

Reference 6348

Topic Strategy

Industry Financial Services

Region Global

View case
This case illustrates the key role played by a local distributor in the luxury goods industry in the Middle East. By partnering with the Chalhoub Group, western firms have built a competitive advantage across the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Published 29 Mar 2017

Reference 6290

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Apparel and Fashion

Region Middle-East

View case
This case shows 1) the strategic importance of talent management 2) the best practice of LVMH in this regard. It illustrates how LVMH extracts synergies across maisons (“houses”).

Published 24 Feb 2014

Reference 5883

Topic Strategy

Industry Luxury Goods and Jewelry

Region Global

View case
The head of Tupperware Nordic faces high turnover and low motivation of the sales consultants. He seeks to understand how to use social media in innovative ways to address these challenges and to modernize the image of Tupperware. Instead of making significant investments in IT infrastructure, he uses existing social media tools and focuses on building emotional capital inside Tupperware.

Published 24 May 2012

Reference 5793

Topic Strategy

Industry E-Commerce

Region Europe

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Organisation theory, Strategic Alliances, Inter-Firm Networks, Inter-personal Networks, Transition Economies