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Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-808133-EEntrepreneurshipConsiders the creation of one of the world's largest beauty and fragrance companies by Bernd Beetz, appointed chief executive of Coty Inc. in 2001. The case opens with the creation of a new Russian subsidiary in the wake of the global financial crisis, and examines how a virtually new company was created over the previous years. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of de...Starting at €8.20
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Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lubinski, ChristinaCase HBS-811060-EEntrepreneurshipThis case examines the management of home and host country risk by Beiersdorf during the interwar years. It can be used both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal products company, expanded globally before 1914, but had its foreign factories and intellectual property expropriated during World War 1. After 1919 ceo Willy Jacobson rebuilt the in...Starting at €8.20
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Horst Dassler, Adidas, y la comercialización del deporte
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Norris, Michael; Kim, SophiCase HBS-316S09EntrepreneurshipEl caso se centra en la carrera de Horst Dassler, el hijo del fundador del fabricante de calzado deportivo con sede en Alemania Adidas. Los orígenes de la firma estaban en los años de entreguerras, y se elevó a la prominencia pública después de que proporciona picos de la famosa velocista afroamericano en los Juegos Olímpicos de 1936 en Berlín. Desde la década de 1950, Horst cultivó relaciones con los atletas y las federaciones nacionales para ex...Starting at €8.20
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Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Ballor, Grace; Brown, AdrianCase HBS-807133-EEconomicsConsiders the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a manufacturer of punch cards, in Nazi Germany before 1937. Opens with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting Adolf Hitler in his capacity as President of the International Chamber of Commerce. IBM had acquired a German company in 1922, and like other American companies, found itself operating after 1933 in a country whose government violently suppressed political dissent and engaged in intimidation and di...Starting at €8.20
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El loft (B): Arrendador
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Zapatero, Miguel ÁngelCase E-161EntrepreneurshipEres el encargado de arrendar el loft de tu hija. La mañana de la negociación te levantaste pensando en cómo ibas a plantear la reunión que tendrías esa tarde con un posible arrendatario, un directivo extranjero que ya visitó el loft hace unas semanas en un viaje a la ciudad en la que vivirá durante una temporada. Se lo enseñó el portero de la finca, pues tú tuviste que acompañar a tu mujer a urgencias. El portero piensa que el directivo mostró u...Starting at €5.74
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El loft (A): Arrendatario
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Zapatero, Miguel ÁngelCase E-160EntrepreneurshipTu empresa, una compañía multinacional de consumo, te ha destinado a la nueva ciudad en la que actualmente se encuentra una filial. Durante los diez años que llevas en la empresa a la que te incorporaste directamente desde que acabaste tus estudios universitarios, siempre habías trabajado en la central. Recientemente, el director nacional de Marketing de una filial en el extranjero se ha jubilado, y el Consejo de Administración ha decidido promoc...Starting at €8.20
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The Loft (B): Lessor
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Zapatero, Miguel ÁngelCase E-161-EEntrepreneurshipYou have taken on the job of renting you daughter's loft apartment. On the morning of the negotiation you got up thinking about what you were going to say that afternoon to a prospective tenant, a foreign manager, who already visited the loft a few weeks ago during a trip to the city, where he is going to be living for a while. On that occasion it was the caretaker of the building who showed the flat, as you had to accompany your wife to the emer...Starting at €5.74
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The Loft (A): Lessee
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Zapatero, Miguel ÁngelCase E-160-EEntrepreneurshipYour company, a consumer multinational, has transferred you to a subsidiary in another country. Until now, in the ten years you have been with the company, which you joined straight out of university, you had always worked in headquarters. Recently, the national marketing director of a foreign subsidiary retired and the Board of Directors decided to promote you. As you have no family responsibilities, this is a great opportunity and you intend to...Starting at €8.20
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Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Norris, Michael; Kim, SophiCase HBS-316007-EEntrepreneurshipThe case focuses on the career of Horst Dassler, the son of the founder of the German-based sports shoe manufacturer Adidas. The origins of the firm were in the interwar years, and it rose to public prominence after it provided spikes for the famous African-American sprinter in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. From the 1950s Horst cultivated relationships with athletes and national associations to expand his sports apparel business and develop sports sp...Starting at €8.20
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Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Siemens, Bjoern vonCase HBS-811004-EEntrepreneurshipThis case describes the nineteenth century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially rested on its pioneering role in the new telegraph industry. Werner sent his brothers to open businesses in Great Britain and Russia, and the case explores the advantages and disadvant...Starting at €8.20