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Roqueta origen (B): sucesión con raíces
Rosés, Maria; Chiner, Alfonso; Tàpies, JosepCase SM-1629StrategyDado que el problema fundamental en las empresas familiares es la sucesión, el presente caso expone un proceso de sucesión resuelto con éxito gracias a la elaboración de un protocolo familiar efectivo. A lo largo del caso, se explica cómo se han ido preparando los distintos protagonistas del proceso de sucesión, atendiendo especialmente a: - El predecesor: cómo se sensibiliza y cómo tiene la voluntad de iniciar el proceso y prepararse para la épo...Starting at €5.74
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Conservas Díaz S.A.
Chiner, Alfonso; González, M.; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1520-ECorporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementAntonio Díaz, the director of the family-owned business Conservas Díaz S.A., had worked hard to make the firm one of the leading canning companies in the country. The excellent family management contrasted with the lax attitude toward family-company relations. When Conservas Díaz S.A. was taken over by the second generation of owners, it suffered a serious setback when one of the shareholders announced he would be selling his shares in the compa...Starting at €8.20
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Driving Motors Company
Chiner, Alfonso; Tàpies, JosepCase SM-1572Knowledge and CommunicationRicardo es la segunda generación de una familia que tuvo negocios en la primera generación, pero hubo que liquidar o transformar la mayor parte, cuando se hizo cargo de ellos. Ricardo acertó impulsando desde joven y desde cero un negocio de concesionario de automóviles y vehículos industriales, llegando a ser un referente en primeras marcas. Cuando sus dos hijos, Luis y Antonio, se incorporaron a la empresa familiar, elaboraron un protocolo famil...Starting at €8.20
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Driving Motors Company
Chiner, Alfonso; Tàpies, JosepCase SM-1572-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe first generation of Ricardo's family had been dedicated to business, but when it came time for Ricardo to take over, as a member of the second generation, most of their business interests had to be liquidated or transformed. He got off to a good start when he was young by founding a car dealership and an industrial vehicle business. He built it up from scratch into a reference for leading brands. When his sons Luis and Antonio joined the fami...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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Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)
Werker, Eric; Cornell, Ian McKownCase HBS-712054-EEconomicsIncoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the same time, South African firms had become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run im...Starting at €5.74
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4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies
Werker, EricCase HBS-713026-EEconomicsThis technical note describes a methodology for evaluating the political economy of business-government relations in an emerging or frontier economy. The note argues that there are not one but four markets in an emerging economy: the market of "rentiers" such as mining companies that earn profits by maximizing rents in the export sector, "powerbrokers" that use monopoly power and government relations in regulated industries to earn outsized profi...Starting at €8.20
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Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (B)
Werker, Eric; Ezekwueche, Onyechi; Igun, Olatomiwa; Wei, AliceCase HBS-713043-EEconomicsSupplement for case 713042Starting at €5.74
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Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (B)
Werker, Eric; Mandviwala, Yasmin; Motte-Munoz, Henry; Wit, ArthurCase HBS-713094-EEconomicsStarting at €5.74
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Cyprus (A)
Werker, Eric; Berardi, Sebastian; Elia, Stelios; Muakkassa, Omar; Zumberge, JamesCase HBS-714010-EEconomicsCyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the cross-roads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Since its 1974 split, Cyprus has grown real GDP more than fivefold-in large part because of its development as an "international business" center. The country developed a large network of double-taxation-treaties (including some of the most robust agreements with Russia and other ex-Soviet Republics) that allowed it to serve as a tax-efficien...Starting at €8.20