announcement of their ecommerce launch I ran home and dug through my undergrad course work and quickly produced a case study I’d read in 2003. “Zara: IT for Fast Fashion” a Harvard Business School case study that examined Zara’s IT infrastructure and how it supported their unique business model. Two important caveats from this case study stuck out in my mind. Zara’s business model closely linked customer demand to manufacturing and distribution. Inventory depended largely on the location of
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Founded in 1984 by Aaron Beam‚ former CFO‚ and Richard Scrushy‚ the company’s former chairman and CEO‚ HealthSouth Inc. was on the rise and went public two years after Scrushy impressed a group of Wall Street investors with a presentation on the company’s potential. By 1990‚ HealthSouth expanded to a $1 billion corporation of hospitals and health care centers offering diagnostic services and rehabilitation therapy. By 1995‚ the company had health centers in all fifty states‚ plus 40‚000 employees
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Planning 43 (2010) 291e307 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Business Models: Creating New Markets and Societal Wealth James D. Thompson and Ian C. MacMillan This thought piece proposes a framework for addressing the challenges of poverty and human suffering so widespread around the world. Based on the WSWP action research program‚ we suggest that visionary businesses can play a role in creating new business models that open up new markets‚ and simultaneously attend to societal wealth
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winning Business Model? Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart‚ HBR Jan-Feb 2011 Because of the economic slowdown in developed economies and the mature markets more and more companies are encouraged to enter in emerging markets. We can observe an increasing pressure for MNE to enter in emerging economies by targeting middle and low Base of the Pyramid. The leading companies are targeting the BOP in emerging countries (India‚ Africa‚ Asia) by adopting innovative business models. Face
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tried so many times but he failed to make them usable. It was in the 1890s when a business idea popped to his mind. He realized that there was a need in the market for cheap‚ disposable razor blades. It would not be wrong‚ if we defined shaving history as before gillette-after gillette. Before gillette‚ shaving was big trouble‚ as the razors were extremely sharp‚ thick and awkward hence‚ dangreous for men in case of cutting his face. What about after gillette? What made it preferable? *Hard
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1 a) What are dell’s FSA’s? Initially one of Dell’s FSAs was its direct sales model. Also they had manufacturing plants all over the world to ensure low labor costs and a highly productive workforce. b) What are the macro-level requirements for the direct sales model to be successful? c) What are the major advantages of the direct model‚ compared with the traditional channel strategy in the computer business? 2) a) How did Del treat its distributors in China during the re-entry into China
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Case #1. Zipcar: Refining The Business Model The objectives of this case: The Zipcar case was developed to permit students to closely track the development and evolution of a company’s business model in the very early stages of its life. The case describes the development of Zipcar‚ a car-sharing service located in Boston‚ but with national ambitions. The case includes the very first version of a financial model for the business‚ a version that was developed after significantly more research
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Table of Contents Identify and describe the business model used by Dell. 2 Explain the different types of EC transactions used by Dell. 6 Analyze the competitive advantages Dell has over its brick and mortar competitors. 10 Relate this case study to supply chain management improvements 12 References 14 (Words: 2800 approx.) Identify and describe the business model used by Dell. 1. Online direct marketing model Dell implemented an aggressive online marketing and offered
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Dell-New Horizons HBS case-9-502-022 Introduction As a consecutively successful and fast-growing company‚ Dell’s management got the pressure of maintaining the rapid growth. On the other hand‚ the hyper-growth in the PC industry over-drafted some growth potential in the coming years and the bubble of the internet economy burst so the speed of the growth would slow down. Since March 2000‚ Dell’s performance in market capitalization and stock prices had got a slump. In addition‚ competitions were
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Introduction to Dell Michael Dell founded the company Dell to offer network servers‚ workstations‚ storage systems‚ Ethernet switches‚ desktops‚ and notebook PCs after successfully selling his computers to customers directly in Texas. Over the course of three years his sales volume warranted the opening of an international sales office in 1987. In 1988 he began selling to large customers including several government agencies and Dell became a publicly traded company. Dell made the bold decision
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