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In 2011 Katrina Lake launched a new type of online retailing, Stitch Fix, a personal styling service based on a mix of human creativity and artificial intelligence, and grew it into a $3.6B company. Like many other successful retail businesses, it rapidly caught Jeff Bezos’s eye. And nothing good comes when Jeff Bezos notices you and decides to compete.
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Reference 6720
Published 04 Apr 2022
Topic Strategy
Region North America
In 2011 Katrina Lake launched a new type of online retailing, Stitch Fix, a personal styling service based on a mix of human creativity and artificial intelligence, and grew it into a $3.6B company. Like many other successful retail businesses, it rapidly caught Jeff Bezos’s eye. And nothing good comes when Jeff Bezos notices you and decides to compete.
On January 28th, 2021 Netflix Inc., an online streaming service provider based in Los Gatos, California, reported a positive cash flow from operating activities for the first time since 2014. The case explores how Netflix’s accounting choices contributed to this achievement.
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Reference 6676
Published 19 Nov 2021
Topic Economics & Finance
Region North America
On January 28th, 2021 Netflix Inc., an online streaming service provider based in Los Gatos, California, reported a positive cash flow from operating activities for the first time since 2014. The case explores how Netflix’s accounting choices contributed to this achievement.
This fictional case introduces an M&A deal structuring exercise. Two strategy consulting companies, East Coast Strategy Consultants Inc. (EAST) and West Coast Strategic Management Advisory Corp. (WEST), are contemplating acquiring a company in the accounting and advisory services sector, either Ocean & Whistle Accounting (OW) or LeDosh (LD).
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Reference 6669
Published 06 Dec 2021
Topic Strategy
Region North America
Industry Accounting, Consulting
This fictional case introduces an M&A deal structuring exercise. Two strategy consulting companies, East Coast Strategy Consultants Inc. (EAST) and West Coast Strategic Management Advisory Corp. (WEST), are contemplating acquiring a company in the accounting and advisory services sector, either Ocean & Whistle Accounting (OW) or LeDosh (LD).
Activate Healthcare, a deliverer of primary healthcare services in the US, is disrupting the way small-to mid-sized companies provide health services to their employees.
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Reference 6594
Published 08 Dec 2021
Topic Responsibility
Region North America
Industry Hospital & Health Care
Activate Healthcare, a deliverer of primary healthcare services in the US, is disrupting the way small-to mid-sized companies provide health services to their employees.
A large regional US-based insurance company decides to invest in digitalization, seeking to improve operational efficiency as well as the customer experience.
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Reference 6575
Published 28 Jul 2020
Region North America
Industry Insurance
A large regional US-based insurance company decides to invest in digitalization, seeking to improve operational efficiency as well as the customer experience.
A large regional US-based insurance company decides to invest in digitalization, seeking to improve operational efficiency as well as the customer experience.
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Reference 6575
Published 28 Jul 2020
Region North America
Industry Insurance
A large regional US-based insurance company decides to invest in digitalization, seeking to improve operational efficiency as well as the customer experience.
Retail had always fascinated Katrina Lake, the youngest woman CEO to ever lead a US initial public offering. But she couldn’t help noticing that the age-old industry never changed. Brick-and-mortar retailers still competed on variety and touch-and-feel, while online competitors sought to differentiate through low prices and fast shipping.
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Reference 6540
Published 17 Dec 2019
Topic Strategy
Region North America
Industry Retail, Building Materials
Retail had always fascinated Katrina Lake, the youngest woman CEO to ever lead a US initial public offering. But she couldn’t help noticing that the age-old industry never changed. Brick-and-mortar retailers still competed on variety and touch-and-feel, while online competitors sought to differentiate through low prices and fast shipping.
The case follows Mina Radharkrishnan’s career as a product manager and product executive in various digital environments. She launches her own start-up in 2016 and reflects on the lessons she has primarily learned at Uber, and earlier on at Google, Goldman Sachs, and ModCloth.
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Reference 6420
Published 26 Jul 2019
Region North America
The case follows Mina Radharkrishnan’s career as a product manager and product executive in various digital environments. She launches her own start-up in 2016 and reflects on the lessons she has primarily learned at Uber, and earlier on at Google, Goldman Sachs, and ModCloth.
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.
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Reference 6417
Published 30 Jul 2018
Topic Strategy
Region North America
Industry Automotive
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.
In April 2018, after it became known that Google was collaborating with the US Department of Defense on Project Maven, over 3,000 employees signed an internal memo asking CEO Sundar Pichai to (a) cancel the project immediately, and (b) enforce a policy stating that the company would never build warfare technology.
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Reference 6408
Published 28 May 2018
Topic Responsibility
Region North America
Industry Industrial Automation, Information Technology and Services, Military
In April 2018, after it became known that Google was collaborating with the US Department of Defense on Project Maven, over 3,000 employees signed an internal memo asking CEO Sundar Pichai to (a) cancel the project immediately, and (b) enforce a policy stating that the company would never build warfare technology.
The case discusses supply chain risk management: how to leverage the structure of a supply network to assess its resilience, focusing on the consequences of disruption rather than the causes, as is traditionally done.
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Reference 6394
Published 23 Jan 2019
Topic Operations
Region North America
Industry Telecommunications
The case discusses supply chain risk management: how to leverage the structure of a supply network to assess its resilience, focusing on the consequences of disruption rather than the causes, as is traditionally done.
Her Opponent is a video case. Actors of the opposite gender portray Clinton (played by a man) and Trump (played by a woman), replicating every word, intonation, facial and non-verbal expression of the candidates.
Her Opponent stemmed from a thought experiment: What if Donald Trump had been a woman, and Hillary Clinton had been a man?
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Reference 6381
Published 25 Jun 2018
Region North America
Her Opponent is a video case. Actors of the opposite gender portray Clinton (played by a man) and Trump (played by a woman), replicating every word, intonation, facial and non-verbal expression of the candidates.
Her Opponent stemmed from a thought experiment: What if Donald Trump had been a woman, and Hillary Clinton had been a man?