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TTTech in 2017: When Market and Technology Trends Align with Company Capabilities
Siegel, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E635-EEntrepreneurship“TTTech in 2017: When Market and Technology Trends Align with Company Capabilities” examines the Austrian technology company TTTech. A global leader in robust networked safety controls, TTTech developed hardware and software solutions that improved the safety and reliability of embedded electronic systems across a variety of industries, including automotive, manufacturing/industrial, aerospace, energy, and off-highway machinery. In 2017, cofoun...Starting at €8.20
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Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B16M045-EStrategyAt the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather than quarters. However, the monastery’s business director needed to make a decision in a much shorter timeframe. The monastery employed approximately 600 people in its forestry, wine-growing, energy, real estate, services, and industrial businesses. Its largest subsidiary, an industrial manufactur...Starting at €8.20
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Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont (Spanish version)
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B16MS045StrategyAt the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather than quarters. However, the monastery’s business director needed to make a decision in a much shorter timeframe. The monastery employed approximately 600 people in its forestry, wine-growing, energy, real estate, services, and industrial businesses. Its largest subsidiary, an industrial manufactur...Starting at €8.20
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LifeNet International's Transformation of African Healthcare via Social Franchising
Ilan Alon; Raul CarrilCase IVEY-9B14M131-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyLifeNet International was a social conversion franchise concept aiming to provide basic, quality and sustainable healthcare to poor and underserved populations in sub-Saharan Africa. The founder and president had relied on the assistance of others to help bring about his idea of affordable healthcare. In 2012, the executive director for LifeNet International’s operations in Burundi, began focussing on developing the company in Burundi. She was ex...Starting at €8.20
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Voestalpine AG (A)
Murray J. Bryant; Werner Auer-Rizzi; Iris Fischlmayr; Caecilia Innreiter; Brett Matthews; Michael EyettCase IVEY-9B07M032-EStrategyVoestalpine AG, a public company located in Linz, Austria, was examining opportunities for growth. The company considers that to meet the needs of its customers, notably automobile, rail and construction, it has to grow. Further, the steel industry in Europe is in a process of consolidation. The company has a very strong balance sheet but due to its ownership structure (35 per cent is owned by the Austrian government), its market value is conside...Starting at €8.20
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Voestalpine AG (B)
Murray J. Bryant; Werner Auer-Rizzi; Sabine Reisinger; Harald Stummer; Robert Bauer; Michael Eyett; Brett MatthewsCase IVEY-9B07M033-EStrategyThis supplement to Voestalpine AG (A), product 9b07M032, examines the decision to expand vertically instead of horizontally, but looking at a stamping plant and plastics firm (to get closer to its automotive customers) and a design firm. More importantly, the case examines the tools and methodologies employed by the company to assess fit in terms of costs and competencies and customers and competition.Starting at €5.74
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Banco de la Gente Emprendedora, BANGENTE C.A.
Villanueva González, Andrés; Villanueva, Priscila; Cátedra René Morales Carazo de Emprendimiento; Schill, RyanCase INCAE-31260_SFinanceBANGENTE fue un proyecto para desarrollar un nuevo banco para apoyar el éxito económico de los pequeños empresarios de Venezuela, ofreciendo créditos y otros servicios financieros para personas que trabajas en al economía informal y no tienen acceso a servicios financieros.Starting at €8.20
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Chocolate Artesanal Venezolano: Emprendimiento en Tiempos de Crisis
Fernández Melo, Juan Pablo; Cátedra René Morales Carazo de Emprendimiento; Schill, RyanCase INCAE-31264_SEntrepreneurshipPara 2018, en Venezuela había surgido un grupo de emprendimientos dedicados a la chocolatería artesanal, los cuales nacieron como alternativa para sortear la profunda crisis económica que aquejaba al país sudamericano desde 2014. Mantuano Chocolate, uno de estos emprendimientos, se encontraba en planes de expansión fuera de Venezuela y Giovanni Conversi, fundador de la empresa, reflexionaba sobre el éxito de su modelo de negocios basado en innova...Starting at €8.20
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+58Cacao: Emprendedoras Apasionadas por el Chocolate Artesanal Venezolano
Fernández Melo, Juan Pablo; Vellojín Helíaz, Marcela; Cátedra.René Morales Carazo de EmprendimientoCase INCAE-31276_SEntrepreneurshipLas hermanas Adriana y Teresa Pino se asocian con la diseñadora gráfica Sandra Boesi para crear en 2015 un emprendimiento llamado +58Cacao, en el cual elaboran barras de chocolate con cacao venezolano. La difícil situación económica de Venezuela ocurrida a partir de 2014 les lleva a buscar alternativas laborales que les brinden ingresos adicionales a sus profesiones cotidianas. La creación de este emprendimiento no es tarea fácil, tomando en cuen...Starting at €8.20
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21st Century Food: NüFood
Arriola Ordónez, Estefanía; García Caffaro, Isabella; Velásquez, Teresa; Coma, Pablo; Castillo, Sofía; Figueredo, AlvaroCase INCAE-31361_E-EEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurs saw a window of opportunity in the production of Soldier Fly Black protein as a sustainable source of protein for animals. They had an established business plan, with the production of NüContainers for lower-middle-income communities and a production plant to serve companies, but this was questioned when they got allies from different industries who believed that their market niche should be different from the previously established...Starting at €8.20