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Fixing the Payment System at Alvalade XXI
O'Callaghan, RamónCase SI-153-EService and Operations ManagementThis case outlines the situation at the Alvalade XXI football stadium in Lisbon, with the planned introduction of an electronic payment system in the restaurant concessions. The system is based on networked technology to avoid using cash payments in all the stadiums's instalation.Starting at €8.20
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Fugesa Portuguesa
Murillo de Araoz J. F.; Torres R.; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-275-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsA fast food chain has to design an optimal expansion plan of franchises in a new market. The case sets the stage to model this situation using integer programming. The situation includes constraints of a financial, human resources and strategic nature. In particular, the financial constraints limit the negative magnitude of both the annual and the cumulative cash flows.Starting at €8.20
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EPO: Electricidade Portuguesa Online (B)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan Carlos; Soler, EdiCase ASN-62-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyTen months after rejecting an investment fund's offer to become a shareholder in Electricidade Portuguesa Online (EPO), the partners meet with their chief financial officer, Carla Ferreira, to analyze the results of the first three quarters of the year and the forecasts for the following two. Carla must also decide whether to accept the offer of the two partners for her to become a shareholder in the company: they are prepared to offer her 10% of...Starting at €5.74
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Games for rent in Teléfonos de Portugal
Chason R.; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-141-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe case presents the dilemma facing the product manager in charge of the computer game service recently launched by Teléfonos de Portugal. Following an intense advertising campaign, sales have been minimal and the product manager is wondering why this is so and what he can do about it.Starting at €8.20
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Symington Family Estates
Martínez de Albéniz, Victor; Amorim, PedroCase P-1195-EService and Operations ManagementIt was the end of October 2018. Charles Symington was drinking a glass of Graham's 20 Year Old Port together with Rob Symington who had just joined the company after a successful entrepreneurial initiative. Rob would help steer the future of the family-owned business. Both were discussing what decisions to make in the upcoming months, regarding the vintage that had just ended. The quality of the wines to be produced with 2018's vintage was outsta...Starting at €8.20
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BrapoTech (A): Building to Scale: A small mobile solutions company must decide how to select a smart global destination
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-4-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a small Portuguese start-up with a young founder directly out of University, which is focused on the rapidly expanding mobile market. The firm is developing innovative mobile solutions which large firms can use to do mobile business with their customers and offer them mobile applications and services (e.g. mobile banking). Within a short period of time, BrapoTech manages to work with the largest Portuguese firms in four di...Starting at €8.20
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Iberostar: Wave of Change: A Family Business Face to Face With a Global Problem
de Ros, María del Mar; San Román, Elena; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-223-EEntrepreneurshipDuring the World Travel Market (WTM), held on November 5 and 6 in London, the Wave of Change movement, promoted by Iberostar Group, received the highest award at the International Travel & Tourism Awards in the category, "Outstanding contribution to the travel & tourism industry" It also garnered the prestigious WTM World Responsible Tourism Award, for which it won the prize for "Best for reducing plastic waste" However, the company had not propo...Starting at €8.20
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PT Multimédia.com
Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-705-EFinanceThis case describes the IPO of PT Multimédia.com (PTM.com), a subsidiary of Portugal Telecom, in June 2000. According to the weekly newspaper "O Independente", institutional investors had voiced serious reservations about the widely disparate valuations put forward by the institutional tranche's global coordinators, which ranged between 10 and l.l billion euros. The case provides an opportunity for students to analyze a number of issues related t...Starting at €8.20
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MobiComp (B): The Way of the Innovator
Sosna, Marc; Darsch, Dave; Prats, Mª JuliaFocused Case EFC-17-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis case B cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "BrapoTech(A): Building to Scale" [EFC-4-E]. This second part illustrates the strategic decisions the firm took with regard to the challenges outlined in Case A, which were mainly around switching from developing more customized solutions to a stand-alone product company and reducing their scope from different industries to only one. In this case, th...Starting at €8.20
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INSITE: Simplified Big Data
Sendagorta, Paloma; Gallo, Iñigo; Jiang Wang, ÁngelaCase M-1384-EMarketingInsite is a customer business intelligence software developed by a European consulting company. The Iberia branch has had poor results during 2020. Of particular concern to the manager is the number of demos that are offered to potential clients: demos granted by the sales team have increased, while sales have decreased. Management has to review the process for granting demos. In particular, the case presents three such decisions: clients who are...Starting at €8.20