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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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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documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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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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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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Bulgaria: On the Road to EU Membership
Stroumina, M.; Gual, JordiCase ECON-416-EEconomicsThe case uses Bulgaria as an example of an Eastern European economy of transition. The outline of the case is as follows: 1. Brief description of the main facts about the country and the economic developments during the communist years. 2. The challenges of the early transition years and the 1997 financial crisis, focusing on issues common to Eastern European countries: high social cost of reforms, dependent central bank, hyperinflation and curr...Starting at €8.20
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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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LPP Reserved: Growth Strategies of a Fashion Retailer in Central and Eastern Europe
Renart, Lluís G.Case M-1213-ECorporate GovernanceIn 1989 two Polish entrepreneurs set up a company to import clothing. From 1999 they began to open their own retail stores. In 2001 the company went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. By 2007 it had three fashion retail chains with a total of 345 stores, a turnover of nearly ¿400m and profits of about ¿40m. In March 2008 the management was looking at the issue of how to continue growing, and in particular whether or not to buy another Polish fa...Starting at €8.20
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Poland: The transition to a free economy (A)
Gual, Jordi; Mech C.Case ASE-253-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Publicizing Know-How: DGA's Initial Public Offering
Moszoro, MarianCase F-853-ECorporate Governance, FinanceThe case presents the initial public offering of DGA ¿ a relatively small consulting firm, but at the same time the first in Central & Eastern Europe and one of a few in the world to go public. The reader stands over the decision-maker¿s dilemma, whether entering the stock exchange is a proper way for the development of a company which is heavily dependent on specific human assets in the form of know-how of key managers, and which revenues are su...Starting at €8.20