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Conservas Díaz S.A.
Chiner, Alfonso; González, M.; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1520-ECorporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementAntonio Díaz, the director of the family-owned business Conservas Díaz S.A., had worked hard to make the firm one of the leading canning companies in the country. The excellent family management contrasted with the lax attitude toward family-company relations. When Conservas Díaz S.A. was taken over by the second generation of owners, it suffered a serious setback when one of the shareholders announced he would be selling his shares in the compa...Starting at €8.20
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Conservas Díaz S.A.
Chiner, Alfonso; González, M.; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1520Corporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementAntonio Díaz, al frente de la empresa familiar Conservas Díaz S.A., había trabajado duramente por conseguir que se convirtiera en una de las conserveras más importantes del país. La excelente gestión empresarial contrastaba con la descuidada atención a las relaciones familia-empresa. Conservas Díaz S.A., en manos de la segunda generación de propietarios, sufre un importante revés tras el anuncio de abandono de la propiedad de uno de los accionis...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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Conservas Díaz S.A. (Portuguese version, Portugal)
Chiner, Alfonso; González, M.; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1520-PPCorporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementAntonio Díaz, the director of the family-owned business Conservas Díaz S.A., had worked hard to make the firm one of the leading canning companies in the country. The excellent family management contrasted with the lax attitude toward family-company relations. When Conservas Díaz S.A. was taken over by the second generation of owners, it suffered a serious setback when one of the shareholders announced he would be selling his shares in the compa...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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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