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Olivia Baker recibe un e-mail
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-251Entrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementOlivia sigue con sus planes de expansión, pero sin tener demasiado en cuenta a uno de los miembros de su equipo, George Foster, que fue el que la ayudó en sus inicios. Olivia ha personalizado demasiado su empresa, de forma que no delega y concentra en ella todo el poder, con las debidas consecuencias y sin dar protagonismo al resto del equipo.Starting at €8.20
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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20
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Aqueduct Medical
Rodríguez, Alejandro; Nueno, PedroCase E-92Entrepreneurship, MarketingAqueduct es una empresa emergente que diseña y fabrica un dispositivo médico para la aplicación terapéutica de frío tras una intervención de cirugía traumática o estética. Dos MBA del MIT y el IESE, y el equipo que reunieron, dan los pasos iniciales para la creación de la empresa y llevan a cabo los ensayos médicos necesarios. Paralelamente deben conseguir financiación para la nueva compañía. En el caso se valoran las diversas alternativas de fin...Starting at €8.20
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GeneRisk.com
Johnson, RobCase E-67Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeA mediados del año 2000, los inversores en Medical Sciences Limited (MSL) consolidaron una nueva compañía, GeneRisk.com, para concentrar su capital en una herramienta de software propiedad de MSL. La inmediata cuestión planteada a los inversores de MSL fue cómo evaluar esta nueva compañía para la siguiente tanda de financiación.Starting at €8.20
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Scripped.com: Creating the Business Model
Rajaraman, Aarthi; Davila, AntonioCase E-146-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenges of an Internet start-up as it finds its business model for growth. Scripped.com (later Scripted.com) is a start-up founded by three MBAs, in which screenwriters are able to produce their own work. Over time, the founders learn about the market.Starting at €8.20
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Olivia Baker Reacts to Geroge
Ruizalba, José Luis; Chinchilla, Nuria; Las Heras, MireiaCase DPO-252-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementOlivia Baker and her team expand the business group with new initiatives. However, the evolution of the business gives rise to obstacles and tensions between her and the people in her trusted inner circle, such as George Foster. This makes her wonder whether to continue as usual or to change her strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Espresso House
de Santiago, Rafael; Carreras, Julián; Palaniswami, Ramesh; Vilà, JenniferCase AD-390-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, FinanceThe financial attractiveness of branded coffee shops attracted investments from the private equity industry in 2005. The case analyzes how Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm, used quantitative analysis to assess the risk of a 5-year growth investment in Espresso House, a branded coffee shop chain in Sweden.Starting at €8.20
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Starship SpaceX: The Disruption in the Space Value Chain
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX was established in 2002 to fulfill founder, CEO and chief engineer Ellon Musk's heady plan to colonize Mars. Starship aimed to be a "Mars colonial transporter" or, more formally, an "interplanetary transport system" both in ease of access and affordability, and designed to be "aircraft-like" from the specification and operational standpoints to maximize the vehicle's utilization rate of launching kilotons of payloads into orbit per year. S...Starting at €8.20
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Argo Interactive (A): Surviving in the Roller-Coasting Mobile Industry: A struggling mobile software provider must decide whether to retreat, refocus, or rebrand
Prats, Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveCase EFC-1-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis after their market did not pick up. The company Argo Interactive focused, with their innovative software product, on the newly emerging WAP-market. However, after burning through 14 million pound sterling of venture capital, the market had still not shown any signs of life, and the senior management team needed to make an urgent...Starting at €8.20
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Accent Equity Partners and the San Sac Deal
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-983-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was April 2019, and Niklas Sloutski, Chief Executive Officer of Accent Equity Partners, a Stockholm-based private equity firm, had just returned from a meeting with the firm's partners. The meeting in which they reviewed the firm's investment portfolio brought discussions about the implications of pursuing a possible exit from the investment in the San Sac Group, a market-leading provider of waste sorting, containment and compaction products i...Starting at €8.20