A year veteran of Takeda Hasegawa san was appointed president of Takeda in and chief executive in . By Takeda was in the midst of implementing its new Vision plan a strategic plan for the evolving global corporation which included developing a global vaccine business. Purchase this case cb.hbsp.harvard.edu cbmp product PDF ENG HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE Jean Claude Biver A The Re Emergence of the Swiss Watch Industry In the early s the Swiss watch industry was near collapse after failing to adapt to Japanese competition from battery powered quartz technology.

In Jean Claude Biver purchased Blancpain a watch company that had been out of business since but had once made mechanical watches for . After successfully reviving Blancpain Biver sold the company to Nicolas G. Hayek chairman of the Swatch Group for million a decade later. Hayek agreed to have Biver stay on and gave him responsibility to revive the Indonesia Mobile Number List once venerable but ailing watch company Omega. Between and Biver led another turnaround effort that increased Omega s revenues from million to million.  that Biver would be the next CEO of Swatch Group in early Biver began to sense that he might not receive the top position when Hayek retired.



At the end of the case Biver must decide whether he should leave the Swatch Group and retire himself or possibly start over yet again and take the reins of a small but struggling watch company Hublot. The case examines the actions that Biver took to transform Blancpain and Omega and how his broad vision ultimately transformed the entire Swiss watch industry. It presents Biver as a complex leader who at times could be very harsh on his employees but whose passion and vision engendered fierce loyalty from those who worked with him.