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The PikoGym Entrepreneurs: Muscling Up through Intellectual Property
Florian Fuchs; Peter M. Bican; Alexander BremCase IVEY-9B20M093-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFrustrated with the available means of working out while travelling, the three founders of PikoGym, a start-up out of Erlangen, Germany, had the idea to build a workout device that allowed users to train anywhere and everywhere. The lightweight and compacStarting at €8.20
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Manteniendo un puesto de trabajo (A)
Juncadella J.; Ribera, AlbertoCase DPO-68Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementDurante sus tres años como empleado de una multinacional de las tecnologías de la información en Barcelona, Javier tuvo que afrontar situaciones muy comprometidas para mantener un puesto de trabajo con contratos temporales que le renovaban con una periodicidad cada vez más corta. En efecto, a pesar de las promesas que hicieron a los jóvenes empleados que ingresaron en el año 2000, la compañía decidió iniciar en primavera de 2002 un plan para reco...Starting at €8.20
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Martin Bauer Group: Corporate Social Responsibility with EinDollarBrille
Carsten C. Guderian; Peter M. BicanCase IVEY-9B16M027-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Corporate Social Responsibility Award, 2016 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. In the fall of 2013, the family-owned Martin Bauer Group, a German-based company and world leader in the business-to-business market for tea and herbal extracts, became interested in the idea of collaborating with the frugal innovation company EinDollarBrille (OneDollarGlasses). The Martin Bauer Group wa...Starting at €8.20
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emmtrix Technologies: Patent Negotiations in High-Tech Academic Spinoffs
Frederik J. Riar; Carsten C. Guderian; Peter M. BicanCase IVEY-9B20M010-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2016, three scientists from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology were preparing for a meeting with several managers from the institute's technology transfer department. The three scientists were planning to commercialize a new technology they had created, and hoped to use their invention to launch a new company as a spinoff from their work at the institute. However, because the scientists had created the technology while working at ...Starting at €8.20
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Keeping a Job (B)
Juncadella J.; Ribera, AlbertoCase DPO-69-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementOutcome of Case (A).Starting at €5.74
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Keeping a Job (A)
Juncadella J.; Ribera, AlbertoCase DPO-68-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementDuring his three years with an IT multinational in Barcelona, Javier faced some very difficult situations as he battled to get his short-term contract renewed at ever shorter intervals. In 2002, despite the promises made to the young employees who had joined two years earlier, the company decided to gradually cut back its temporary workforce. Javier had always been a loyal employee and had met - or exceeded - his targets in every project he had b...Starting at €8.20
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Manteniendo un puesto de trabajo (B)
Juncadella J.; Ribera, AlbertoCase DPO-69Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementDesenlace del caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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HKS-Dessous: A Main Street Retail Entrepreneur Handling Digital Change
Johannes Tiemer; Carsten C. Guderian; Peter M. BicanCase IVEY-9B17M090-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyLate in 2016, the owner of a lingerie business in Düsseldorf, Germany, faced a series of questions regarding the health of her business in a changing environment. The German retail environment had traditionally consisted of many specialized (often family-owned) small- to medium-sized retailers, and many of these stores had not kept pace with globalization and the digital revolution; market changes and increasing competition forced them to close. ...Starting at €8.20
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From Crisis to World Champions: Lessons from German Football
Holger Ernst; Peter M. Bican; Carsten C. GuderianCase IVEY-9B17M154-EStrategyFor the Deutscher Fussball-Bund e.V. (DFB)—the German Football Association—winning the most prestigious football trophy, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was the culmination of a long period of suffering, reinventing, and rebuilding. Once the dominating force in world football, the German team had been at rock bottom around the beginning of the millennium. To manage its way out of this crisis and leave competitors behind once again, the DFB had to fundam...Starting at €8.20