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Lara Castro (B)
García, Pilar; Cardona Soriano, PabloCase DPO-23Leadership and People ManagementLara Castro, joven directiva de una empresa de telecomunicaciones, comienza un proceso de «coaching» con el fin de mejorar sus competencias directivas. El caso muestra el plan de mejora diseñado conjuntamente por Lara y su «coach», y los avatares que rodean su puesta en marcha.Starting at €5.74
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Banco Magyar
Cardona Soriano, PabloCase FH-634Leadership and People ManagementEl Banco Magyar es el nombre ficticio de uno de los tres bancos que había resultado de la división del Banco Central de Hungría. Pocos años después, es comprado por un banco americano y éste envía a uno de sus analistas para dirigir el banco en Hungría. Este caso sirve de introducción al curso de Dirección de Personal y da pie a hablar de las diferencias entre la función directiva y la función técnica.Starting at €8.20
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Cofil, S.A. (C)
Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Chinchilla, NuriaCase FH-640Leadership and People ManagementEl Director General de Cofil, S.A. se ve desbordado por sus actividades directivas y contrata a un consultor externo para ayudarle a aliviar su carga de trabajo.Starting at €5.74
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Magyar Bank
Cardona Soriano, PabloCase FH-634-ELeadership and People ManagementBanco Magyar is the fictitious name of one of the three banks resulting from the split-up of the Hungarian Central Bank. A few years later the bank is acquired by an American institution, which sends one of its analysts to manage the Hungarian subsidiary. This case serves as an introduction to the Personnel Management course and provides material for discussion of the differences between the managerial role and the role of the specialist.Starting at €8.20
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Coaching en el Banco Azucarero de Cali (BAC) (B)
Susaeta Erburu, Lourdes; Serrano, Germán; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Cardona Soriano, PabloCase DPO-35Leadership and People ManagementEn el caso B, el mismo director de zona (ahora "coach") aborda la entrevista de evaluación y el plan de desarrollo profesional de dos directores de oficina ("coachees") uno de alto potencial y otro con escasas perspectivas dentro de la organización. En los Anexos se incluyen las herramientas utilizadas para la evaluación: gráfico de evaluación 180º y "arañas" que representan el perfil de competencias.Starting at €5.74
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Buena Visión España (A)
Cardona Soriano, PabloCase FH-686-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines the process of organizational and cultural change undertaken at Buena Visión, a subsidiary of the Alda Gehring Corporation, which manufactured and sold optical healthcare products. The aim of the reforms, which fell within a program undertaken by Alda Gehring called Vision 2000, was to optimize business processes and reduce response times to changes in the environment by decentralizing management and promoting a style of manage...Starting at €8.20
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Inyecsa
Cardona Soriano, PabloCase FH-635-ELeadership and People ManagementA new factory manager is required to substantially and rapidly improve productivity and quality. To improve one of the sections that has been most reluctant to accept any changes, he promotes a shopfloor worker to the rank of team leader. The new team leader enforces the plant manager's guidlines very strictly. Following a confrontation between the team leader and a subordinate, the workers write a letter to the works committee demanding that the...Starting at €8.20
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Brighter Smiles for the Masses--Colgate vs. P&G (Spanish version)
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Yao, Dennis; Azevedo Jorge, FilipaCase HBS-707S33StrategyIn 2000, Procter & Gamble Co. introduced Crest Whitestrips, a new, revolutionary product that allowed consumers to whiten their teeth at home. With Whitestrips, P&G created an entire new category in oral care, worth $460 million in 2002. Whitestrips sent P&G's main competitor in oral care, Colgate Palmolive Co., scrambling because several patents protected the strips, making it difficult for Colgate to copy the invention. But in September 2002, t...Starting at €8.20
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El contexto de negocios de WalMart
Oberholzer-Gee, FelixCase HBS-712S19StrategyEn 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. propuso la construcción de un nuevo Supercenter en Inglewood, una comunidad de bajos ingresos, cerca de Los Ángeles. La propuesta era una parte de la estrategia de Wal-Mart para llevar su formato Supercenter a California. Introducido a finales de 1980, supercentros añaden una línea llena de comestibles y departamentos especializados para surtido tradicional de Wal-Mart de mercancía general. entrada prevista de Wal-M...Starting at €8.20
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UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Raabe, Elizabeth A.Case HBS-707511-ELeadership and People ManagementMarco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a report that environmental specialists and senior executives at UBS had compiled. It suggested the company adopt a more progressive policy on climate change. Suter thought about the...Starting at €8.20