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February 2025
Domaine Bousquet (A)
By John Mullins
It was Friday, January 21, 2011. Anne Bousquet and her husband Labid Ameri were in a quandary over what to do about the bombshell that Anneâs father Jean had just dropped in their laps. The couple had moved to Argentina 22 months earlier to join Anneâs father in the winery business he had starte...
February 2025
Domaine Bousquet (B)
By John Mullins
After resolving the January 2011 blow-up with her father Jean, Anne Bousquet and her husband Labid Ameri overcame every crisis that was thrown at them. The company was seeing encouraging signs about the potential to grow their sales in the United States, the worldâs largest market for wine, and ha...
February 2025
Oyster becomes a unicorn: fundraising for an impact-driven enterprise
By Luisa Alemany, Nicholas Andreou, Ioannis Ioannou, Nick Mickshik
In April 2022, just two years since launch, global employment platform Oyster announced it had achieved a valuation in excess of $1 billion, giving it unicorn status, after closing a $150 million Series C round. Oysterâs co-founders, Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, put a social-impact mission fro...
October 2024
Building an organisation for the ecosystem era: Weighing up the Recipe of Haierâs Internet of Food (Japanese Language)
By Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton, Monwei Chou, Lisa Duke, Dalbert Ma, Aleya Karim
Ecosystems offer a new way to bring multiple firms together in order to deliver new value propositions. By working together, the hub firm and its complementors can create innovative âproduct plus serviceâ bundles that span traditionally separate industries to offer an experience that simply wasn...
July 2018
Dollar Shave Club: Disrupting the Shaving Industry (Japanese language)
By Nader Tavassoli, Karin Kollenz-Quétard, Jamie Anderson
The case describes how Dollar Shave Club proved to be a disruptive force in the shaving industry, one dominated by Gillette for over a Century. It did so without a single patent to its name, and with a direct-to-consumer subscription and a content-based customer engagement model that was new to the ...
December 2023
Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset (French language)
By Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan
When Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft in 2014, he inherited a firm fading toward irrelevance, plagued by internal fights and inertia. Earlier that year his wife, Anu, had given him a best-selling book by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck entitled Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, su...
November 2023
Intel Case (A): 1968-1985
By Freek Vermeulen
This case series describes the growth journey of Intel from its launch in 1968 in Santa Clara, California to 2019 under the leadership of its various CEOs. Intel first became a leader in semiconductor memory by pioneering new technology that allowed it to increase the number of circuits on a chip wh...
November 2023
Intel Case (B): 1985-1998
By Freek Vermeulen
This case series describes the growth journey of Intel from its launch in 1968 in Santa Clara, California to 2019 under the leadership of its various CEOs. Intel first became a leader in semiconductor memory by pioneering new technology that allowed it to increase the number of circuits on a chip wh...
November 2023
Intel Case (C): 1998-2019
By Freek Vermeulen
This case series describes the growth journey of Intel from its launch in 1968 in Santa Clara, California to 2019 under the leadership of its various CEOs. Intel first became a leader in semiconductor memory by pioneering new technology that allowed it to increase the number of circuits on a chip wh...
August 2023
Stepping out of lockdown: Launching a footwear brand during a pandemic
By Claudia Yoshinaga, Elisa Larroudé, John Mullins
Marina LarroudĂ© stared glumly at all the crossings out on the proposed boots order for the autumn collection. Her husband Ricardo wanted to cut her suggestions by nearly half â in models, colours and quantities. Their fledgling shoe business had begun to a promising buzz a few months ago, but las...