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IESE Insight. Número 11. Cuarto trimestre 2011
IESE InsightMagazine REV-25Economics, Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations Management, StrategyExisten mejores caminos para gestionar la carrera profesional que los que hemos seguido hasta ahora. Douglas T. Hall y Elana R. Feldman (Universidad de Boston) animan a las empresas a que ayuden a los empleados a alcanzar sus sueños y encuentren un significado a su vida personal y profesional. La profesora del IESE Mireia Las Heras describe varios recursos con los que impulsar el desarrollo profesional y personal en nuestras empresas: flexibilida...Starting at €22.00
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Restoring Japan: Abenomics
Mas, Núria; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase ECON-421-EEconomicsThe case presents Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose economic policies, nicknamed "Abenomics," aim to remedy the economic malaise Japan has suffered since the 1990s. The case then jumps back to that era and describes the circumstances that surrounded the beginning of this "lost decade" and the actions of the Japanese authorities of the time in response to it. Those actions failed to prevent stagnation, which has plagued the Japanese economy ever si...Starting at €8.20
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS)
Kase, Kimio; Nonaka, Ikujiro; Independent Investigation CommissioCase SM-1579-EDecision Analysis, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyThe questions may largely fall into two categories: (1) Did Japan or PM Kan and his team cope well with the crisis (i.e., questions regarding efficiency and effectiveness)? And, perhaps more importantly, (2) Have lessons been learned that would help Japan prepare for other natural or man-made catastrophes (i.e., questions regarding learning and knowledge-creation)?Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): la transformación de una idea de laboratorio a una empresa de alto crecimiento: Los retos de comercializar un dispositivo tecnológico innovador
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso habla sobre un director general que se puso al frente de una spin-off creada a partir de un instituto de investigación, se convirtió en el primer empleado de la nueva empresa y trató de convertir esa idea de laboratorio en un prototipo con el objetivo de producirlo industrialmente y venderlo finalmente a un cliente muy exigente, afrontando entre tanto varias crisis notables. Además de las dificultades para conseguir que el producto (un...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm: The challenges of bringing an innovative device technology to market
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a CEO who took over a spin-off from a research institute, became the new firm's employee #1 and tried to turn this lab idea into a prototype, then get it ready for industrialization, and finally sell it to a very demanding client, while facing some significant crises on this way. Beside the challenge of getting the product (an integrated hearing protection and communication device) working and a painful failure with a cont...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (B): una cuesta empinada y arriesgada hacia el éxito: Decisiones y consecuencias
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-7Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso B no puede impartirse de manera aislada, pues es una continuación directa del caso "Nacre: cómo convertir una idea de laboratorio en una empresa de alto crecimiento" (A) [EFC-2-E]. En el caso B se describen las decisiones y medidas estratégicas del director general y cómo esta empresa (que tan sólo tenía entre 12 y 15 empleados en aquel momento y subcontrataba los servicios de un gran fabricante) consiguió finalmente cerrar un contrato...Starting at €8.20
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A Catalyst Journey during Corona Times (B)
Elvira, Marta; Villamor, IsabelCase DPO-734-ELeadership and People ManagementCristina Ventura has decided to start a new venture in Singapore, focused on launching her new venture capital firm: VenturaXVentures, and exploring other initiatives driven by impact while continuing as external advisor for LCJG. She has been accepted as a Kauffman Fellow, co-founded "Catalyst One"; advised "The Constellation" board of directors; considered joining IVY FUND as a founder and general partner, and become an advisor at ZeroCap. Simu...Starting at €5.74
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Norio Ohga: The Fifth President of Sony Corporation
Sáez, Francisco J.; Riquelme, Hernán; Kase, KimioCase DG-1481-EStrategyThe case analyses the conceptual scheme or model identified in Norio Ohga's management style, which we call the proto-image of the firm (PIF) approach. Sony's success in its diversification strategy is explained on the basis of PIF.Starting at €8.20
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Chihiro Kanagawa, President of Shin-Etsu Chemical
Sáez, Francisco J.; Riquelme, Hernán; Kase, KimioCase DG-1483-EStrategyThis case examines the professional career of Chihiro Kanagawa, and shows how he turned Shin-Etsu Chemicals into a major international player in a sector in which Japanese companies had traditionally been uncompetitive. The case illustrates Kanagawa's dynamic management style and the value system on which it is based and we call the profit- arithmetic (PA) approach. Shin-Etsu Chemical's success by not spending money on projects not generating imm...Starting at €8.20
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Kansai Holding: Solicitud de préstamo a su filial Nara Beer (D)
López Cardenete, Juan LuisCase SM-1555Corporate Governance, Finance, Leadership and People ManagementSe trata de una historia novelada que pretende describir conflictos propios del gobierno de las empresas. Está ubicada en Japón, distinto y distante, pero con idénticos conflictos: entre los intereses de las empresas y el de sus ejecutivos, entre el de los accionistas mayoritarios y el de los minoritarios y, por último, entre los intereses públicos (reguladores, legisladores y gobiernos) y los privados (empresas e individuos). El ambiente en el q...Starting at €5.74