Fairphone 3: Commercializing Radical Sustainability

Free.fr - Internet for the BOP in France (A): The Fixed-line Internet Market

By Philip M. Parker, Mathieu Romary

In 2002, the telecom industry in France witnessed changes in regulation of internet service providers. This enabled internet service provider Free.fr to challenge a crystalized competitive landscape using a combination of technology, business model innovation and focus on the bottom of the pyramid.

Published 27 Nov 2017

Reference 6326

Length 1 page(s)

Topic Strategy

Region Europe

Free.fr - Internet for the BOP in France (B): A Model for Disruption

By Philip M. Parker, Mathieu Romary

In 2002, the telecom industry in France witnessed changes in regulation of internet service providers. This enabled internet service provider Free.fr to challenge a crystalized competitive landscape using a combination of technology, business model innovation and focus on the bottom of the pyramid.

Published 27 Nov 2017

Reference 6326

Length 3 page(s)

Topic Strategy

Region Europe

Skype: A Case Study of How Skype Derived “Place Surplus” in the Estonian Capital of Tallinn

By Sami Mahroum, Elizabeth Scott

An Estonian success story, this case examines why Skype's Scandinavian founders chose Tallinn to establish their hi-tech start-up. We investigate the factors that contributed to their choice of location and the subsequent success of the venture. Skype's journey is discussed against the backdrop of post-Soviet Estonia’s economic and industrial resurrection.

Published 24 Mar 2014

Reference 6045

Length 19 page(s)

Topic Entrepreneurship

Region Europe

Industry Telecommunications

Investor Growth Capital: The Bredbandsbolaget Investment

By Claudia Zeisberger, David Piehl

Bredbandsbolaget is a broadband provider that started in the midst of the dot-com bubble in the late 90s.

Published 18 Dec 2009

Reference 5653

Length 22 page(s)

Topic Economics & Finance

Region Europe

Industry Telecommunications, Capital Markets

Alcatel Access Systems Division (A): Lessons from the Past

By Paul Verdin, Arnoud De Meyer, Rudi Bogaert

The Alcatel Access Systems Division case highlights the issues and challenges, mainly in terms of product development and innovation, within a multinational organization traditionally organized on a country-based unit structure.

Published 09 Jan 2000

Reference 4873

Length 19 page(s)

Topic Strategy

Region Europe

Alcatel Access Systems Division (B): Building for the Future

By Paul Verdin, Arnoud De Meyer, Rudi Bogaert

The Alcatel Access Systems Division case highlights the issues and challenges, mainly in terms of product development and innovation, within a multinational organization traditionally organized on a country-based unit structure.

Published 09 Jan 2000

Reference 4873

Length 15 page(s)

Topic Strategy

Region Europe

Alcatel Access Systems Division (C): The Virtual Company - ADSL

By Paul Verdin, Arnoud De Meyer, Rudi Bogaert

The Alcatel Access Systems Division case highlights the issues and challenges, mainly in terms of product development and innovation, within a multinational organization traditionally organized on a country-based unit structure.

Published 09 Jan 2000

Reference 4873

Length 6 page(s)

Topic Strategy

Region Europe

Mobilcom AG - Countdown to Liberalization (A)

By Laurence Capron, Erol Ali Dervis

Mobilcom is a young German firm which was created in 1991 and has been successful as a Mobile telephone service reseller. The A case takes place just before the deregulation of January 1998 and aims at discussing whether and how Mobilcom should enter the German fixed-line voice telephony market.

Published 11 Jan 1999

Reference 4834

Length 28 page(s)

Topic Strategy

Region Europe

Re-organizing and Privatizing German State Enterprises (A)

By Douglas Webber, Mark Lehrer

The case portrays the political process by which, in the first half of the 1990s, decisions were taken in Germany to re-organize and/or to privatize the state-owned airlines, telecommunications and railways enterprises.

Published 11 Jan 1997

Reference 4689

Length 32 page(s)

Topic Economics & Finance

Region Europe

Industry Telecommunications, Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Re-organizing and Privatizing German State Enterprises (B)

By Douglas Webber, Mark Lehrer

The case portrays the political process by which, in the first half of the 1990s, decisions were taken in Germany to re-organize and/or to privatize the state-owned airlines, telecommunications and railways enterprises.

Published 01 Nov 1997

Reference 4689

Length 2 page(s)

Topic Economics & Finance

Region Europe

Industry Telecommunications, Airlines/Aviation, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad