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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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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
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Roaring Out of Recession (Spanish version)
Gulati, Ranjay; Nohria, Nitin; Wohlgezogen, FranzArticle HBS-R1003CStrategya combination of cutting costs, mainly by improving operational efficiency (rather than by slashing the number of employees relative to peers), and developing new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than rivals do in R&D and marketing while also investing in plants and machinery.Starting at €8.20
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Angola and the Resource Curse (Spanish version)
Musacchio, Aldo; Werker, Eric; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-714S10Economicsimmense inequality, low life expectancy, a non-diversified economy, and constant grumblings of corruption. The global financial crisis and subsequent fall in state oil revenue drives a loan-seeking Angola towards either the IMF, who demand extensive reforms, or the Chinese, who seek to take a direct stake in the nation's recovery. The case explores the dynamics of post-conflict recovery as well as the challenges associated with a reliance on oil...Starting at €8.20
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How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived
Gulati, Ranjay; Casto, Charles; Krontiris, CharlotteArticle HBS-R1407K-EIn March 2011 Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and three core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The world is familiar with Daiichi's fate; less well known is the crisis at its sister plant, Daini, about 10 kilometers to the south. As a result of the storm, three of Daini's four reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve ...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)
Gulati, Ranjay; Silvestri, LucianaCase HBS-113116-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2005 and 2008. Having dismantled its long-standing service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed account managers who served JLL's corporate clients. Markets housed brokers specialized in a certain geography. JLL helped drive integration between Accounts and Markets by emphasiz...Starting at €5.74
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Target: Responding to the Recession
Gulati, Ranjay; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-510016-EMarketingWithin 10 months of Gregg Steinhafel's taking over as CEO at Target, the U.S. was mired in the most significant economic downturn in 50 years. Top competitor Wal-Mart had positioned itself well for the crisis, while Target's same store sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and...Starting at €8.20