Global
March 2012
Carnival Corporation: The P&O Princess Acquisition (A)
By Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, Barbara Muckermann
Set in January 2002, this case examines the three-way takeover battle for cruise industry dominance involving Carnival, P&O Princess and Royal Caribbean. It also documents the evolution of the modern cruise industry and the competitive dynamics that led to momentous consolidation. After secret m...
March 2012
Carnival Corporation: The P&O Princess Acquisition (B)
By Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, Barbara Muckermann
Set in January 2002, this case examines the three-way takeover battle for cruise industry dominance involving Carnival, P&O Princess and Royal Caribbean. It also documents the evolution of the modern cruise industry and the competitive dynamics that led to momentous consolidation. After secret m...
November 2021
MOVE Guides (C)
By John Mullins, Tiffany Putimahtama
Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition to the lump-sum moves segment that had given her company its start. By any measure, the company had grown: in top-line revenue, in head count, and (t...
November 2021
MOVE Guides (B)
By John Mullins, Tiffany Putimahtama
It was August 2014. The MOVE Guides team had successfully converted two of their initial pilot clients into paying customers whose employees were delighted with the companyā€™s support of their moves.Ā Brynne Kennedy and her team were successfully closing a couple of additional lump-sum clients reg...
November 2021
MOVE Guides (A)
By John Mullins, Tiffany Putimahtama
It was a crisp autumn day in London in 2012. Brynne Kennedy and Steve Black, the co-founders of MOVE Guides, were huddling with their lead software developer, Peter Almasi, and their lead angel investor, Kevin Eyres. Their fledgling business had come a long way since its July launch, with pilot prog...
March 2019
ENGIEā€™s GEM business unit: Towards a new way of working
By Julian Birkinshaw, Ken Mark
The case is set in early 2019. Edouard Neviaski is CEO of the Global Energy Markets (GEM) division of Engie, a very large French energy company. He has been pushing a major programme of change over the previous three years and is considering the next steps: how to maintain momentum, what additional ...