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Amy's Buyout: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (A)
;Case E-228-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, StrategyThe case describes a truth-based story about a successful corporate manager who is mulling over the idea of buying her own small business in order to fulfill her sleeping entrepreneurial ambitions. The case consists of three parts that present different phases and dilemmas in the entrepreneurial buyout process: - In Part A, Amy has identified two interesting target companies, WillTools and SW Bedding. She must decide whether to invest more time a...Starting at €8.20
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Bruxelles Services Linguistiques (BSL) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Soler, Edi; Peñalva, FernandoCase C-811-PBAccounting and ControlBSL presents the case of one of the largest global companies in the translation industry, located in Belgium. BSL's drop in sales, accompanied by an even greater decrease in profitability, in the context of sector's turnover growth, together with the apparent increase in the additional services involved in the translation process, leads the company to readdress the cost system and propose an activity-based approach. Although the system sheds mor...Starting at €8.20
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Derivatives at Controladora Comercial Mexicana (CCM)
Mitchell, Jordan; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-859-EFinanceThe main pedagogical objective of the Comercial Mexicana is to show the use and abuse of derivatives. Comercial Mexicana - Mexico's third largest retailer of food and other items - faced the possibility of bankruptcy in 2008 after speculating on foreign currency, which exposed the company to US$1.9 billion of debt. The case explains the derivative type (TARN or Target Accrual Redemption Note) and goes into detail on the perils of trying to make ...Starting at €8.20
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CVWarehouse (B): Breaking the Deadlock
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-18-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis case B cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "CVWarehouse (A): Offline- and Online-Adventures in the Recruitment Industry". This second part illustrated the decisions the entrepreneur took during crisis and how she resolved the deadlock of her companies by the current investors. The case illustrates how she is trying (and eventually succeeding) to sell one of her business in order to buy out th...Starting at €8.20
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CVWarehouse (B): cómo resolver una situación en punto muerto
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-18Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeEste caso B no puede impartirse de manera aislada, pues es una continuación directa del caso "CVWarehouse (A): aventuras offline y online en el sector de la contratación". En esta segunda parte se describen las decisiones de la emprendedora durante la crisis y cómo consiguió salir del punto muerto que los inversores habían provocado en sus compañías. El caso expone cómo intenta (y acaba consiguiendo) vender una de sus empresas para comprar la pa...Starting at €8.20
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CVWarehouse (A): Aventuras off-line y on-line en el sector de la selección de personal: Una directora general que cuestiona los viejos modelos mentales y empresariales
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-16Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeEn este caso se describe el trabajo de una directora general belga para cambiar los modelos de negocio de dos compañías que ha creado en el sector de los recursos humanos. La primera compañía es una consultora offline de recursos humanos y la segunda es una innovadora iniciativa surgida de la primera y basada en Internet. En el caso se describen sus dificultades para atraer capital riesgo y cómo lo consigue finalmente. Lo que es más importante, ...Starting at €8.20
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The Managerial Dilemma of E-Toll Route Implementation in South Africa
Ntoi, Hlompho; Thomas, Lawrence; Vilà, JoaquimCase SM-1643-EDecision Analysis, Innovation and Change, StrategyIn 2007, South African National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) decided to introduce a radical and advanced urban tolling system called the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP). The project entailed the expansion of the province's single-direction three-lane highways to single-direction five-lane routes. Large toll gantries were to be built in order to process usage data as a means of billing users electronically via a strict user pay system. P...Starting at €8.20
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Komatsu: The Rise of a Service-Dominant Logic
Stremersch, Stefan; Keko, ElioCase M-1328-EMarketingIt was early 2015 and executives of Komatsu Europe International N.V., whose main business is the sale of mining and construction equipment through multiple distributors across Europe, were exchanging views on the business model that would drive their future. They had seen many changes inside and outside the industry in recent years, and Komatsu was facing a growing need to adapt its current way of doing business. The team had been debating each ...Starting at €8.20
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CVWarehouse (A): Offline-and Online-Adventures in the Recruitment Industry: A female CEO who challenges mental and business models
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-16-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase describes how a female CEO from Belgium is trying to change the business models in the HR industry with the two companies she set up. The first company is an "offline" HR consulting company, while the second one is an innovative spin-off from her first venture and Internet-based. The case decribes how difficult it was for her to attract venture capital, but how she finally succeeds. But more importantly, she runs into a significant...Starting at €8.20
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Health Service Expansion and Development among the Uninsured Poor Population
Lee, Gabriel Manuel; Ribera, Jaume; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1008-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes the development of the PAC - Coverage Extension Program, from its creation in 1994 to the beginning of 2000. The PAC has managed to provide almost universal coverage for the population living in small, remote rural communities. The case describes the situation in 1994, the alternatives that were open to the ministry and the features of the program designed. It also discusses its operational development, reviews the actions tha...Starting at €8.20