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The Shubert Organization: The Show Must Go On (condensed)
Beech, María Alejandra; Villanueva, Julian; González, JorgeCase M-1240-EMarketingIn January 2009, Bob Wankel sat in his office at the historic Sardi's building on 44th Street, New York, as he considered the challenges ahead: several Broadway shows were closing, and a severe economic downturn threatened future productions. Many were calling for changes in the theater industry, and the Shubert Organization (where Mr. Wankel had worked for 33 years) had recently lost its Chairman, Gerald Schoenfeld. As the firm's new President a...Starting at €8.20
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GoQuickly.com and FileAway: Advertising in the Super Bowl
Gallo, Iñigo; González, Jorge; Capizzani, Mario; Panlilio, LorenzoCase M-1374-EMarketingKickersoft managers Jennifer Green and Ted Gutner, along with their respective marketing teams, were preparing for an important presentation meeting with CEO Henrik Mathison. During the meeting, the decision would be made on which creative concepts the US software company would use for that year's Super Bowl advertisements for FileAway and GoQuickly.com-Kickersoft's two most important cloud-based products. Green and Gutner were excited, but the...Starting at €8.20
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SEUR: Digitalizing Express Shipping
Foncillas, Pablo; González, JorgeCase M-1309-EInformation Technologies, Marketing, StrategyThe heads of marketing at SEUR (Servicio Urgente de Transportes; "Urgent Shipping Service" in English) were ready to present in the meeting room the results of the first six months since the relaunch of the company's new website. They had recently opted for promoting a website with a clear transactional focus. The meeting had been called to examine some aspects of the new site's performance, such as how sales were evolving with respect to target...Starting at €8.20
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ArteOliva
González, Jorge; Segarra, José AntonioCase M-1132-EMarketingArteOliva has launched a new extra virgin olive oil, packaged in cartons. After the product has been on the market for a few months, management decides to launch a TV advertising campaign to make consumers more aware of its benefits.Starting at €8.20
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Accent Equity Partners and the San Sac Deal
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-983-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was April 2019, and Niklas Sloutski, Chief Executive Officer of Accent Equity Partners, a Stockholm-based private equity firm, had just returned from a meeting with the firm's partners. The meeting in which they reviewed the firm's investment portfolio brought discussions about the implications of pursuing a possible exit from the investment in the San Sac Group, a market-leading provider of waste sorting, containment and compaction products i...Starting at €8.20
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Mármoles del Sur, S.A. (A). Novamármol
González, Jorge; Segarra, José AntonioCase M-1162-EFinance, MarketingA group of businessmen, advised by a wealth manager, must decide on taking an equity stake in a marble fabrication company. The company has a patent and a productive process that could revolutionize the traditional marble sector. The factors determining the valuation of the business are under debate with the current family owners and the group of interested entrepreneurs and managers. The challenge is to assess the business opportunity of this ne...Starting at €8.20
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Europa Group Seguros, S. A.: Estrategia Go-To-Market
Font, Vicente; González, JorgeCase M-1378MarketingEuropa Group Seguros (EGS), filial española de una compañía de seguros alemana, tiene que decidir qué hacer con la fuerza de ventas directa lanzada el año anterior. Los primeros resultados no son concluyentes. Al decidir, deberá tener en cuenta que desde la sede le han reclamado un crecimiento constante. Algunos de los miembros del equipo operativo de EGS señalan que sería mejor para la compañía invertir en la red de agentes tradicional, mientras...Starting at €8.20
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Europa Group Seguros, S.A.: Go-To-Market Strategy
Font, Vicente; González, JorgeCase M-1378-EMarketingEuropa Group Seguros (EGS), the Spanish subsidiary of a German insurance company, has to decide what to do with the direct salesforce launched the previous year. First results are not conclusive. This decision needs to take into account the request from headquarters to show consistent growth. Some of the members of EGS management team support that it would be better for the company to invest in the traditional agent network while others suggest t...Starting at €8.20
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Accolade Group
Kolarova, Lenka; Johnson, RobCase E-225-EFinanceIn September 2005, John Allen, the Chairman and founder of Accolade Group, leaned back in the armchair in his office and reflected on the developments in his company over the past nine years. Allen had a lifelong career in the UK leisure industry, culminating in his founding of the Accolade Group through a £279m management buy-in (MBI) of the Accolade Bingo business from Guss, a quoted UK-based leisure company, in 1997. Allen had a vision that un...Starting at €8.20
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SEUR: digitalizando el transporte urgente
Foncillas, Pablo; González, JorgeCase M-1309Information Technologies, Marketing, StrategyLa dirección de marketing de SEUR (Servicio Urgente de Transportes) se disponía a presentar en la sala de reuniones los resultados de los primeros seis meses del relanzamiento de la nueva web de la compañía, que había apostado recientemente por plantear una web con claro enfoque transaccional. En ese encuentro se analizarían algunos aspectos del rendimiento de la nueva página, tales como la evolución en ventas frente a objetivos, el encaje del p...Starting at €8.20