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- October 2020
- Supplement
Essent: From a State-Owned Utility to a Commercial Company (B)
By: Ananth Raman and Elena Corsi
- August 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
George Soros: The Stateless Statesman
By: Geoffrey Jones and Wendy Ying
This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was...
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- June 2020
- Case
What IKEA Do We Want?
By: Juan Alcácer, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In 2018, Swedish furniture maker IKEA was undergoing a significant transformation. Challenged by the rise of online shopping and changing consumer behavior, and mourning the death of its founder, the Company's top executives knew they had to step out of their comfort...
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- Article
Time Use and Happiness of Millionaires: Evidence from the Netherlands
By: Paul Smeets, A.V. Whillans, Rene Bekkers and Michael I. Norton
How do the very wealthy spend their time, and how does time use relate to well-being? In two studies in the Netherlands, the affluent (N=863, N=690) and the general population (N=1232, N=306) spent time in surprisingly similar ways, such as by spending the same amount...
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- March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
The case discusses the strategy of CIAM, a French activist investment firm, involved in a case of a buy-out of minority shareholders in the telecommunications sector. Altice NV, an international telecommunications company based in the Netherlands that owned more than...
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- December 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the...
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- December 2019
- Supplement
The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath.
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- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had...
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Change Management;
Competency And Skills;
Experience And Expertise;
Talent And Talent Management;
Energy;
Energy Sources;
Non-renewable Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Retention;
Collaborative Innovation And Invention;
Innovation And Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Jobs And Positions;
Job Design And Levels;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge;
Knowledge Use And Leverage;
Labor;
Human Capital;
Labor Unions;
Leading Change;
Resource Allocation;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Productivity;
Strategic Planning;
Projects;
Motivation And Incentives;
Business Strategy;
Social And Collaborative Networks;
Technology Platform;
Chemical Industry;
Energy Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
United Kingdom;
netherlands
- May 2019
- Case
Mobileye Update, 2019
By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
Mobileye was an Israeli company, officially headquartered in The Netherlands, which was a Tier 2 supplier to the global automobile industry. This short case updates Mobileye's business performance and strategy, following the acquisition by Intel in 2017.
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- February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Scandal at Steinhoff
By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso
- May 2018
- Supplement
Transformation at ING (C): Culture
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
In 2016, ING Group began an overhaul of its company culture, culminating in a code of conduct dubbed "The Orange Code."
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- January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Transformation at ING (A): Agile
By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
In December 2017, Vincent van den Boogert, CEO of ING in the Netherlands, was reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change;
Organizational Management;
Organizational Structure;
Workforce;
Agile;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Leadership;
Transformation;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Leading Change;
Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues;
Banking Industry
- January 2018
- Case
OldTown Berhad
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee company) made an offer to acquire OldTown Berhad (OTB), a Malaysian coffee company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares, and...
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Keywords:
Mergers ＆ Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Discounted Cash Flow (dcf);
Malaysia;
Coffee;
Consumer Packaged Goods (cpg);
Free Cash Flow (fcf);
Multiples;
Bidding Premia;
netherlands;
Tender Offer;
Mergers And Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Food;
Investment Return;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Malaysia;
netherlands;
Singapore;
Asia
- January 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape
Medtronic is adapting its strategy to changes in healthcare competition and payments. It has decided to develop new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of...
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- January 2018
- Supplement
OldTown Berhad
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee company) made an offer to acquire OldTown Berhad (OTB), a Malaysian coffee company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares and...
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Keywords:
Mergers ＆ Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Discounted Cash Flow (dcf);
Malaysia;
Coffee;
Consumer Packaged Goods (cpg);
Free Cash Flow (fcf);
Multiples;
Bidding Premia;
netherlands;
Tender Offer;
Mergers And Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Food;
Investment Return;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Malaysia;
netherlands;
Singapore;
Asia
- August 8, 2017
- Article
Buying Time Promotes Happiness
By: Ashley V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene Bekkers and Michael I. Norton
Around the world, increases in wealth have produced an unintended consequence: a rising sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a buffer against this time famine, thereby promoting happiness. Using large, diverse samples...
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- January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s...
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Keywords:
Organic Growth;
Organizational Change;
M＆a;
Mergers And Acquisitions;
Divestment;
Business Ventures;
Business Divisions;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Restructuring;
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Transition;
Engineering;
Chemicals;
Mining;
Ethics;
Values And Beliefs;
Finance;
Capital Markets;
Financial Markets;
Food;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms And Management;
Globalized Markets And Industries;
Health;
Nutrition;
History;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management;
Business Or Company Management;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Management Practices And Processes;
Management Style;
Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Performance;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Value;
Value Creation;
Biotechnology Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Mining Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Europe;
netherlands
- October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)
By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, global head of civic partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
Sharing Economy;
Amsterdam;
Airbnb;
Molly Turner;
Regulation;
Homesharing;
Tourism;
Business And Government;
Public-private Partnership;
Entrepreneurship;
Business And Government Relations;
Government Administration;
Public Sector;
City;
Tourism Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Travel Industry;
netherlands;
Europe
- October 2016
- Supplement
Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
In December 2014, Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the city. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. Its final provision read,...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
Sharing Economy;
Amsterdam;
Airbnb;
Molly Turner;
Regulation;
Homesharing;
Tourism;
Business And Government;
Public-private Partnership;
Business And Government Relations;
Government Administration;
Public Sector;
City;
Urban Development;
Tourism Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Travel Industry;
netherlands;
Europe
- 20 May 2016
- Other Presentation
Competing to Change the World: Creating Shared Value
The principle of shared value involves creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges. Shared value is becoming an integral part of strategy and is defining a whole new set of best practices that companies...
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