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  • March 2018
  • Teaching Note

Mavi: Fashioning a Path to Brand Growth

By: Jill Avery and Gamze Yucaoglu
Mavi, a leading Turkish apparel retailer, had sales of $419 million in 2015, up 20%. Growth rates like these were becoming routine at Mavi. But, its path to growth was getting more challenging, and Turkven, Mavi’s private equity partner, was planning its exit options... View Details
Keywords: Retailing; Fashion; Brand; Brand Management; Brand Extension; Brand Equity; Private Equity; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Turkey; Europe
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  • January 2007 (Revised November 2007)
  • Case

Organic Growth at Wal-Mart

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith
In 2005, an executive vice president at Wal-Mart must decide whether to expand the retailer's selection of organic food. The decision is made in the context of wider attempts to move the giant retailer slightly upscale and to focus on environmental sustainability. View Details
Keywords: Food; Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Business Processes; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Retail Industry; United States
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  • March 2022
  • Supplement

Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (B)

By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in January 2022 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are looking over the performance of the newly launched “buy now, play later” feature. The traction looks... View Details
Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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  • May 22 2018
  • Testimonial

Maximizing Growth Through Clarity

  • August 2019 (Revised April 2020)
  • Case

BlueVine Capital: Growth Factors

By: Marco Di Maggio and Nathaniel Schwalb
The start-up, BlueVine Capital Inc. (BlueVine), used data and technology to help finance small businesses via factoring and lines of credit. The case explains the small business financing market in mid-2010s, how CEO Eyal Lifshitz identified the opportunity for... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Business Startups; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Innovation Leadership; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • December 1994 (Revised July 1996)
    • Case

    USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth

    For decades after the revolution of 1917, Communist Party leaders claimed that the socialist economic system was superior to the capitalist system on both moral and economic grounds. By 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Soviet Union
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    • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Grupo Bimbo: Growth and Social Responsibility

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
    Bimbo, headquartered in Mexico with 2008 sales of $7 billion, was one of the largest bakery companies in the world. Even as it had grown spectacularly in the last several decades, the company had earned a stellar reputation for its corporate social responsibility... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Reputation; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico
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    • March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
    • Case

    Accion's Fintech Strategy

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg
    Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Financial Inclusion; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Non-Governmental Organizations; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Industry Growth
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    • Web

    Strategy Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    growth is good only if superiority in ROIC is achieved and sustained. Levels of Strategy There are two fundamental levels of strategy: corporate level strategy and business... View Details
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

    By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
    This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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    • 26 Jul 2023
    • News

    Is Your Start-Up’s Growth Sustainable?

    • June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)

    By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber
    In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • June 2023
    • Case

    Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

    By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
    At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth; Fintech; Company Management; Growth Strategy; Innovation And Strategy; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communication Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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    • June 2005
    • Case

    Growth and Profitability at Fresenius

    By: Joel Podolny, Vincent Dessain, Monika Stachowiak and Anders Sjoman
    In March 2005, Mark Schneider, CEO of Fresenius, is considering the group's strategic and organizational future. The highly decentralized 7 billion euro German health care group is active in three different business units, with the largest, FMC AG, listed separately... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Diversification; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Germany
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    • 15 Sep 2010
    • Other Presentation

    Microeconomic Aspects of Competitiveness:Lessons for Post-Crisis Growth Policies

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    Prof. Christian Ketels - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School and Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, Stockholm School of Economics View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Society; Latvia
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    • 07 Sep 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

    Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira
    • March 2004
    • Case

    L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

    By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
    In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • November 2018
    • Case

    Cepuros Foods Malaysia: Finding the Secret Sauce for Growth (Brief Case)

    By: John A. Quelch and Katherine B. Hartman
    Shelby Diaz, country manager for Cepuros Foods International—Malaysia (CFI-M), must decide a growth strategy for the expansion of CFI-M's line of salsas, particularly regarding whom to target and how to allocate marketing investments. CFI-M could expand aggressively by... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Product Positioning
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    • October 2021
    • Case

    Yildiz Holding's Corporate Strategy: Managing Diversification for Growth

    By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
    The case opens in May 2018 with Nurtaç Ziyal Afridi, chief strategy and growth officer of Yıldız Holding, a Turkish conglomerate, reflecting on the group’s diversification journey. In ten years, the group had achieved a remarkable growth through diversification: seven... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Diversification; Growth Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; United Kingdom; Turkey; Asia
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