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Learning From the Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis article shares the insights of "entrepreneurial icebreakers" -- business pioneers who launched private companies in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and who expanded beyond national borders by clearing pathways for themselves and others into international markets around the globe. In documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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Ebola: Managing to Save Lives
IESE InsightArticle ART-2676-EService and Operations ManagementA year after the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in March 2014, health-care experts are cautiously optimistic that the epidemic appears to be slowing. Although the outlook is brighter than a year ago when the first case was detected in Guinea, there is still a long way to go and many lessons to be learned in managing a crisis of this scale, related to institutional shortfalls, international coordination, engagement with local stakeholders and, m...Starting at €8.20
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Navigating the Realities of Emerging Markets
Kleinhempel, MatthiasArticle ART-2791-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementAll corporate compliance programs share a common feature: to ensure that the company obeys the law and that all organizational members behave ethically. However, multinational companies operating in a country like Mexico, for example, face issues very different from those of Germany -- a reality that many codes of conduct fail to recognize. The author's research on compliance programs in the emerging economies of Latin America reveals the special...Starting at €8.20
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Adolescentes hoy, jóvenes adultos en 2020
Nueno Iniesta, José LuisArticle ART-1894MarketingAunque no tienen un gran poder adquisitivo, los adolescentes juegan un papel crucial en muchas decisiones de compra. Además, de su comportamiento y actitudes en relación al consumo dependerá el futuro (y la sostenibilidad) de muchas empresas. Por ello, invertir en el conocimiento de este target es una decisión rentable a largo plazo. Si tenemos en cuenta el reequilibrio de la renta que se está produciendo en las economías emergentes, y que...Starting at €8.20
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Lecciones de un secuestro
IESE InsightArticle ART-2275Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEl arquitecto mexicano Bosco Gutiérrez fue secuestrado el 29 de agosto de 1990. Sus fuertes convicciones y resiliencia le permitieron afrontar la incertidumbre y escapar 257 días después.Starting at €8.20
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Ambushed by Adversity
IESE InsightArticle ART-2275-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementThe uncertainty, threats and uncontrollable situations faced by the average business person may never be as extreme as what the Mexican architect Bosco Gutiérrez went through. But his story of how he mustered the strength within himself to overcome his ordeal offers valuable lessons on how to keep your wits about you when you find yourself suddenly ambushed by adversity.Starting at €8.20
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Palencia, Luis; Grandes, Mª JesúsExercise CE-26Accounting and ControlEn julio de 2013, Pedro Torca y Marisa Mercader viajaron a Taxonia, un pequeño principado europeo, para celebrar su reciente graduación del programa Executive MBA. Pedro, que trabajaba en una ingeniería, y Marisa, que era responsable de Project Finance en un banco, hacía tiempo que se planteaban fundar su propia empresa, y estaban continuamente explorando oportunidades de negocio. Taxonia, situada entre Suecia y Portugal, era conocida por sus rec...Starting at €8.20
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Vienna Neubau GmbH (A): CEO and Shareholder
Baselga, Antonio; Stein, Guido; Roure, JuanCase E-129-ELeadership and People ManagementNeubau Vienna GmbH (VN) is a mid-sized company and leading distributor of wood derivatives in the Austrian market. CEO Walter Anzenbruger had decided to hire a general manager who could help steer the company in its new stage. Walter finally decided on Hans Macher, 34, an industrial engineer with an MBA and current director of the Price Waterhouse Office in Graz. He thought that Hans was pulling very heavily on some of his strengths in the negot...Starting at €8.20
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Santander-Serfín: Revitalizing the Payment Systems Business
Díez J.; Villanueva, Julian; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1190-EMarketingIn June 2001, Ramón Tellaeche, director of products and marketing at Banco Santander Serfín in Mexico, was considering the commercial strategy which the means of payments division should follow over the following months in order to achieve its ambitious commercial objectives. Marcial Portela, general manager of Grupo Santander's Americas Division, had set the objective of doubling the credit card market share in a year and a half, and capturing 2...Starting at €8.20
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BMW-British Aerospace: La venta de Rover
Miller, PaddyCase FH-522Leadership and People ManagementEn febrero de 1994, British Aerospace anunció la venta de los holdings del Grupo Rover a BMW, fabricante alemana de automóviles. El caso narra el desarrollo de los acontecimientos que precedieron al anuncio así como las implicaciones que tuvo para el socio de Rover, Honda. La reacción de los políticos, de la Bolsa y de los sindicatos fue diversa y presentó graves problemas a la dirección de Rover. Este caso mereció un galardón en el «European Cas...Starting at €8.20