Mobile communications
May 2014
Vodafone Turkey (C)
By A. Gokhan Ay, Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton
Vittorio Colao was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group plc on 29 July 2008. Given the ongoing economic tumult, one of his first acts as CEO was to stress that the company had to âbatten down the hatchesâ to survive. The days of multi-billion pound deals were over, he added.Vittorio inher...
April 2014
Vodafone Turkey (B)
By A. Gokhan Ay, Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton
Vittorio Colao was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group plc on 29 July 2008. Given the ongoing economic tumult, one of his first acts as CEO was to stress that the company had to âbatten down the hatchesâ to survive. The days of multi-billion pound deals were over, he added.Vittorio inher...
April 2014
Vodafone Turkey (A)
By A. Gokhan Ay, Michael Jacobides, Tom Albrighton
Vittorio Colao was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Group plc on 29 July 2008. Given the ongoing economic tumult, one of his first acts as CEO was to stress that the company had to âbatten down the hatchesâ to survive. The days of multi-billion pound deals were over, he added.Vittorio inher...
March 2009
Reuters Market Light: Strategic Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
By Costas Markides, Laura Winig, Daniel Oyon
This case is set in 2008 and examines the challenges facing Amit Mehra, Managing Director of Reuters Market Light (RML), a newly formed unit within Thomson Reuters, as he tries to grow the business amid organisational and market upheaval. RML represented a creative venture by Thomson Reuters to leve...
August 2018
M-Pesa & Nick Hughes
By Lisa Duke, Rajesh Chandy
It was February 2009, and Nick Hughes, head of Global Payment Solutions at Vodafone, contemplated his notes as he waited to enter the companyâs Executive Meeting at its headquarters in Newbury, amid the Berkshire countryside outside London. M-PESA (M for mobile, Pesa meaning âmoneyâ in Swahili...