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Ducati: En busca de la magia (A)
Mitchell, Jordan; Cassiman, BrunoCase DG-1507Innovation and Change, StrategyA principios de 2006, Federico Minoli, consejero delegado del fabricante italiano de motocicletas Ducati, se plantea diferentes opciones estratégicas. Tras haber liderado la compañía durante una importante fase de reorientación entre 1996 y 2001, Minoli observa que los ingresos de Ducati se han estancado entre 2002 y 2005, por lo que está concibiendo un plan para "relanzar" Ducati que pretende presentar a los inversores para recabar su apoyo con ...Starting at €8.20
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Camper: la imaginación no es cara
Mitchell, Jordan; Velamuri, RamaCase E-105EntrepreneurshipCamper es una de las marcas más conocidas dentro y fuera del país. A lo largo de sus 30 años de historia, a Camper se le conoce por sus innovadores diseños, cercanía a la subcontratación de manufactura y por el diseño interior de sus tiendas. A partir de 2005 se enfrenta a una creciente competencia por parte de multinacionales como Nike. Los alumnos tendrán que entender cómo Camper ha incorporado la creatividad e imaginación a su negocio y qué es...Starting at €8.20
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Fiction Entertainments
Pradas, Lidia; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-863-EFinanceOn Wednesday, May 9, 2007, Esteban Lázaro, managing director of Fiction Entertainments, received an unexpected call from Alejandro Sáez, branch manager at Banco Santander, the company's main bank. Alejandro was sorry to inform Esteban that the bank was tightening its credit policies and could not increase the company's line of credit, as Alicia Casado, CFO of Fiction Entertainments, had requested a few days earlier. Alejandro also warned Esteban ...Starting at €8.20
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Vueling: The New Generation Airline (A)
Mitchell, Jordan; Ferraro, FabrizioCase SM-1561-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyVueling (A) case follows start-up and growth of a Spanish low-cost carrier from 2004 until 2007. Barcelona-based Vueling set out to offer "high quality at low price" to travellers in South-Western Europe. The case describes the strategy and competitive situation, Vueling's business model, and the challenges the company faced in an increasingly competitive environment.Starting at €8.20
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Mútua de Terrassa: Rollout of the Health Care Information System (HCIS)
Mitchell, Jordan; Ribera, Jaume; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1087-EKnowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementAs of autumn 2006, a major Spanish hospital outside of Barcelona, Grup Mútua de Terrassa (MT), is implementing the second major phase of a new Health Care Information System (HCIS) along with Hewlett-Packard (HP) at eight centers for primary care. The HCIS project is a multi-year and multi-phase initiative which is the first in many steps towards a "paper-less" hospital. The hospital's management are wondering how the HCIS will change the way peo...Starting at €8.20
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La Fageda
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Ricart Costa, Joan Enric; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-711452-EStrategyLa Fageda is a manufacturer of high-quality, naturally-made yogurts in northern Catalonia, Spain. La Fageda is substantially different from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed to integrate the mentally disabled by providing meaningful jobs and dignifie...Starting at €8.20
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Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Khanna, Tarun; Skurnik, Samuli; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-709409-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the regional cooperatives own SOK, a centralized company that provides services to the regional cooperatives. Throughou...Starting at €8.20
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ABC Logistics, S.A.
Pradas, Lidia; Tàpies, JosepCase F-680FinanceABC Logistics, una empresa de gestión de palets estandarizados, nos presenta un modelo de empresa en crecimiento, parecido al de Butler & Lumber (F-515) o Distribuidora de Plásticos Miranda (F-596), en el que el crecimiento anual de la actividad supera al que la empresa puede sostener por sí misma, por lo que debe acudir a ampliaciones de capital con cierta frecuencia. Los objetivos principales del caso son dos: (a) observar como evolucionan las ...Starting at €8.20
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Zinio: "Byting" into a Paper World (Condensed)
Mitchell, Jordan; Nueno, José Luis; Villanueva, JulianCase M-1222-EMarketingIn the late summer of 2006, Raúl Suárez, managing director of Zinio Spain, was talking with Joan Solà, CEO of AccesoGroup, about how they could make Zinio into a profitable and viable business in Spain. As CEO of AccesoGroup (a prominent media intelligence and analysis company within Spain), Solà had signed a franchise deal with Zinio Systems, Inc. of San Francisco, California in mid-2005 to market Zinio in Spain.Starting at €8.20
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Ducati: En busca de la magia (B)
Mitchell, Jordan; Cassiman, BrunoCase DG-1508Innovation and Change, StrategyLa parte B es un breve epílogo del plan que Minoli presentó a los inversores.Starting at €5.74