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DHL Internacional España (A)
de Benito C.; Martí, Carlos; Gómez, SandalioCase DPO-19Leadership and People ManagementLa multinacional DHL Worldwide Express, una de las tres empresas de transporte urgente internacional de documentos y mercancías más importantes del mundo, establece en su plan estratégico para la región de Europa dos proyectos de centralización de servicios de soporte a negocio para mejorar la eficiencia y el servicio. Por un lado, los sistemas de información, operaciones y desarrollo de aplicaciones de las filiales europeas centralizados en Lond...Starting at €8.20
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Saint Gobain Montblanc (B)
Martí, Carlos; Gómez, SandalioCase DPO-27-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Saint-Gobain group set up a new factory in the Tarragona town of Montblanc. A working committee created for this purpose must design the new factory's strategy, structure, productive and organizational processes and human resources policies. The case focuses on the design of the model that the human resources policies will be based on.Starting at €5.74
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Wikipedia: Project Esperanza
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Gorbatai, Andreea; Zuzul, TionaCase HBS-712493-EStrategyIn October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer-run on-line encyclopedia which could be freely read and edited by anyone with internet access. Within almost six years of its founding in 2001, the project had attracted hundreds of thousands of editors who had written over 1.2 million articles in English alone. Almost 10 percent of world-wide internet users accessed Wikipedia at least once a month. Just as Wales was stepping down, the editor c...Starting at €8.20
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Yammer (A)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Herman, Kerry; Smith, AaronCase HBS-713407-EStrategyIn spring 2012, Yammer was on track to become a highly successful standalone company. Yammer was a leading Enterprise Social Network (ESN), providing companies a private social network in which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that year, Microsoft executives unexpectedly reached out with an offer to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion and integrate Yammer into the Microsoft Office division. An integration with Micr...Starting at €8.20
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Yammer (B)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Smith, AaronCase HBS-713483-EStrategySupplement to Yammer (A), case 712-494.Starting at €5.74
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Going Social: Durex in China
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Smith, AaronCase HBS-714430-EStrategyWhen Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese market made it hard to sustain high margins, inflated television advertising rates made marketing expensive, and an inefficient distribution system increased costs further. In 2010,...Starting at €8.20
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Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Fernandez-Mateo, Isabel; Chen, DavidCase HBS-709469-EStrategyZopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets was an automated system that assembled loans by combining lowest loan offers from different Zopa lenders. Zopa Listings allowed prospective borrowers to post eBay-like listings expla...Starting at €8.20
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Expansión. Macro redacción multimedia: el proceso de cambio de las redacciones informativas
Martí, Carlos; Gómez, SandalioCase DPO-42Leadership and People ManagementLa industria periodística se encuentra en plena exploración de las posibilidades que ofrece el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías y la convergencia de medios. Recoletos, uno de los grupos de comunicación más importantes del país al cual pertenece el diario económico líder Expansión, inicia un proceso de integración de los cuatro medios que componen el área de información económica (Expansión TV, Actualidad Económica, Expansion.com y el diario E...Starting at €8.20
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Cables de Comunicaciones S.L. (B)
Martí, Carlos; Gómez, SandalioCase DPO-2Leadership and People ManagementLa empresa Cables de Comunicaciones, puntera en la industria de las telecomunicaciones, atraviesa dos años de malos resultados, durante los cuales cambia dos veces de propietarios. En este período de crisis, el director general debe afrontar problemas internos de organización, de cambios de personas y de falta de colaboración entre los departamentos. El proceso de toma de decisiones es muy lento, el estilo de dirección de los directivos es hetero...Starting at €5.74
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Allianz (B)
Martí, Carlos; Gómez, SandalioCase DP-151Leadership and People ManagementMaterial complementario del caso DP-150 Allianz (A).Starting at €5.74