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Renée Mauborgne

Affiliate Professor of Strategy

Self-driving cars are moving from science fiction to showroom fact, or at least to a car summoning platform. Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google, has ordered 82,000 self-driving cars for delivery through 2020. Cruise Automation, from General Motors, is perfecting their own fleet. Countless companies are driving full-throttle into the future.

Published 30 Jul 2018

Reference 6417

Topic Strategy

Industry Automotive

Region North America

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The case describes a series of blue ocean strategic moves made by Salesforce.com in the CRM application market. In particular, the case addresses the concern of business executives over the applicability of blue ocean strategy in the B2B area. B2B managers often find that they are locked into providing products of certain types and specifications to their immediate customers.

Published 26 Jun 2018

Reference 5911

Topic Strategy

Industry Computer Software

Region Global

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This case accompanies 1) a collection of business press articles; 2) two video clips; 3) a teaching note; 4) lecture slides. While the case and articles will be assigned as pre-reading, the video clips and lecture slides will be shown in the classroom by the instructor.

Published 26 Jun 2018

Reference 5860

Topic Strategy

Industry Consumer Services Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Online Media

Region North America

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The Blue Ocean Strategy Implementation Scenario Case offers a set of interactive group scenarios which are designed to deepen the participants' understanding of Blue Ocean Strategy implementation principles. Using the five scenarios participants work in teams as they learn to apply key concepts of tipping point leadership and fair process.

Published 26 Jun 2018

Reference 5532

Topic Strategy

Region Global

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This is the second of a two-case series. Cirque du Soleil very successfully entered a structurally unattractive circus industry. It was able to reinvent the industry and created a new market space by challenging the conventional assumptions about how to compete.

Published 26 Jun 2018

Reference 4999

Topic Strategy

Industry Entertainment

Region Global

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This highly engaging strategy formulation exercise allows participant to unlock their creativity through the systematic five-step process of blue ocean shift. We reverse the learning process of case method by combining it with a group exercise.

Published 25 Jun 2018

Reference 6422

Topic Strategy

Industry Leisure, Travel and Tourism

Region Asia

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Customers are gaga for Wawa, the restaurant / convenience store / gas station that inspires people to tattoo the firm's logo. Founded in 1803, Wawa morphed over time from an iron foundry to a textile mill, to a dairy farm, dairy delivery business, grocery store, then convenience store. Dark clouds descended with the 2008 financial crisis.

Published 25 Jun 2018

Reference 6421

Topic Strategy

Industry Restaurants Food and Beverages Production

Region North America

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The Marvel Way: Restoring a Blue Ocean explains one of the greatest turnarounds in modern business history. This case comes with a two-part video interview with then Marvel CEO Peter Cuneo who turned around the business and launched a blue ocean. Founded in 1939, Marvel Comics initially struggled in a red ocean producing primarily me-to knock-off comic books.

Published 05 Apr 2018

Reference 6205

Topic Strategy

Industry Motion Pictures and Film

Region North America

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For several decades, the classical music industry has been in decline with demand down, costs up and profits shrinking as many orchestras struggle for survival. Against this backdrop, André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra stand apart.

Published 23 Mar 2018

Reference 6304

Topic Strategy

Industry Entertainment Music

Region Global

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Disciplinary Research: Nondisruptive Creation, Growth Theory, Market-Creating Innovation, Procedural Justice., General Research: Strategy, Management and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy