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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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Eye Care (C): Alejandro Lanzagora's Performance Assessment
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-166-ELeadership and People Management, MarketingIn February 2009 Alejandro Lanzagorta, a Business Manager at Eye Care, meets with the director of his business unit, Tiago de Vasconcelos, to discuss his annual performance assessment. In quantitative terms, Alejandro's sales results are better than expected, in fact, the best in the company. Opinions differ, however, over cost management, where Alejandro believes he has also exceeded expectations. The disagreement intensifies when the discussion...Starting at €5.74
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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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Eye Care (E): A Second Assesment
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-205-ELeadership and People ManagementIn February, as usual, Alejandro had his 2009 Global Perfomance and Development meeting with his superior, Tiago de Vasconcelos. His results had been very good: sales growth was 12.5%, reaching 100.3% of budgeted sales, above 98.1% of the business unit. In the new refractive line he had achieved 98%, compared to the average of 87%. Alejandro declared that communication had improved significantly, but even so he was nervous about his meetings with...Starting at €5.74
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Pentagram: The Craft of Design - Teaching Note
Mitchell, Jordan; Prats, Mª JuliaTeaching Note ET-14-EEntrepreneurshipPentagram a multi-disciplinary design firm with 19 partners in five offices (London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco and Austin) is considered to be the "Rolls-Royce of Design" by its peers. The company¹s growth is based on adding well-known designers who in turn bring in business under the Pentagram name. The group is facing tremendous competitive pressure from integrated advertising conglomerates such as WPP, Omnicom and Interpublic. Twenty...Starting at €0.00
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Yolanda Cruz in Health and Beauty (B)
Stein, Guido; Cebrecos, EnriqueCase DPO-300-ELeadership and People ManagementIn early 2012, Yolanda was appointed head of sales for the area of Catalonia, the second in size. It was a year marked by widespread fall in consumption; however, she exceeded the budget of 6,487,000 euros by 2%. She was also able to unite a team with three newcomers, whose hiring she had not had a say in, and about whom she had expressed personal reticence to her superior, Mónica Roig - she complained her preferences had not been taken into acc...Starting at €5.74
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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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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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Yolanda Cruz en Health & Beauty (A)
Stein, Guido; Cebrecos, EnriqueCase DPO-273Leadership and People ManagementJuan Carlos Rubio, who had extensive experience in managing sales teams, especially in the areas of conflict resolution, motivation and team leadership, had accepted Carmen Sotomayor's proposal to coach Yolanda over the next six months to help her develop her management skills and to assess whether she was suitable for the position. The following day, Montse Pla, head of potential assessment and talent development at H&B's Human Resources Departm...Starting at €8.20
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Yolanda Cruz en Health and Beauty (B)
Stein, Guido; Cebrecos, EnriqueCase DPO-300Leadership and People ManagementA principios de 2012, Yolanda fue nombrada jefa de Ventas de la Zona de Cataluña, la segunda en tamaño. Fue un año marcado por la caída generalizada del consumo; sin embargo, superó el presupuesto de 6.487.000 euros en un 2%; también supo cohesionar un equipo en el que se habían producido tres nuevas incorporaciones ajenas a su decisión, y acerca de las que, ante su superior, Mónica Roig, había mostrado reticencias personales: según ella, no se h...Starting at €5.74