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Negotiating for Success in Asia: Adapting to a Multipolar World
Stephen Grainger; Per HintzeCase IVEY-9B19M015-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAn executive at a North American-based multinational company contacted an old friend and former business associate in Indonesia in hopes of collaborating with him to purchase Asian software companies. After several emails, the two disagreed and disengaged. The North American declined the Indonesian’s advice to invest time in developing the relationships required to access this market. Three months later, after realizing he had closed the door on ...Starting at €8.20
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Fagor Electrodomésticos
Nueno, Pedro; Pallàs C.Case P-943Service and Operations ManagementAntonio Cancelo, Director de Marketing de Fagor Electrodomésticos de la Unidad Frío, se plantea si debe seguir manteniendo en la gama de productos el frigorífico Zerogrado. Este frigorífico se caracteriza por tener tres puertas, una de ellas es de la unidad cero grado, donde los alimentos se mantenienen entre 0 y 5 grados celsius. El caso se inicia situando a Fagor Electrodomésticos dentro de Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa para pasar a hablar ...Starting at €8.20
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Segur Lock
Nueno, Pedro; Pallàs C.Case P-945Service and Operations ManagementSegur Lock es un nuevo producto de Laboratorios Inibsa que se utiliza para prevenir infecciones que se producen en los hospitales en enfermos que tienen conectado un catéter. La introducción de este producto en España y Portugal ha sido muy difícil porque el Segur Lock es un producto preventivo cuyos beneficios tangibles no son inmediatos. Inibsa no tiene capacidad suficiente para comercializar el Segur Lock a nivel internacional. Contacta con la...Starting at €8.20
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Electrodomésticos Solac, S.A.
Nueno, Pedro; Pallàs C.Case P-939Service and Operations ManagementSolac decide lanzar una nueva plancha para posicionarse en el sector de gama alta y pasar a competir directamente con Rowenta. El caso se incia con un repaso a la evolución de Electrodomésticos Solac para pasar seguidamente a hablar del mercado de las planchas y acabar con el proceso de desarrollo seguido para la nueva plancha ""Profesional Lux"".Starting at €8.20
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Envases de Plástico, S.A. (B)
Nueno, Pedro; Pallàs C.Case E-17-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €5.74
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BYD Company, Ltd. (Spanish version)
Huckman, Robert S.; MacCormack, AlanCase HBS-614S03Service and Operations ManagementConsidera si BYD Co., Ltd., el mayor fabricante chino de baterías recargables, debe entrar en la industria del automóvil chino mediante la adquisición de Qinchuan automático, un fabricante de automóviles de propiedad estatal. Establecer justo después de la oferta pública inicial de BYD en la Bolsa de Hong Kong en 2002, que describe el desarrollo del enfoque de trabajo intensivo de BYD para la fabricación de baterías - un enfoque decididamente dif...Starting at €8.20
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Hotel Latvia: Sell Out, Hang In or Partner
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B14M170-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThree friends have followed their entrepreneurial dream to build a five-star hotel in Liepaja, a seaside city in Latvia. After a few early profitable years, the hotel is struggling, due to the massive downturn in the Latvian economy as a result of the European Union financial crisis and slow recovery. The hotel has declined from generating an annual profit to now making a loss or barely breaking even. On several occasions, the co-owners have cons...Starting at €8.20
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Forty Chinese Police to Five-Star Bali Conference: Scam
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B17M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2012, a real estate entrepreneur and his long-time friend and former neighbour, a police director, had enjoyed the profits of guanxi—a bilateral flow of personal favours—for many years. The use of guanxi in China had long been a core component of successful and sometimes illegal business. However, China’s new president had recently created a tough anti-corruption Disciplinary Committee. As a result, many respected citizens who had previously p...Starting at €8.20
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Roaring Dragon Hotel: A Second Attempt at Modernization
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B12C055-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH), a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE), was under pressure to become a profit generating 5-star hotel due to the continued development of the Chinese market economy. As for many SOEs, the RDH was overstaffed, filled with archaic work practices, internal cliques, unsystematic production systems and a dysfunctional motivation system unrelated to performance. During modernization, a number of human resource management...Starting at €8.20
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Roaring Dragon Hotel: Problems Adapting to the Chinese Market Economy
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B17C049-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyBetween 1999 and 2017, the Roaring Dragon Hotel (RDH) evolved from a state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a modern, market-driven 5-star accommodation provider, experiencing a combination of market economy and privatization forces. Its initial operations under the new status progressed from the poor performance and management practices of China’s planned economy to a portfolio of operational and strategic reforms that saw it become semi-privatized i...Starting at €8.20