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Future Group — Branding Private Labels
Niraj Dawar; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11A004-EMarketing, StrategyIndia’s largest domestic retail group, the Future Group, is pursuing a novel private-label strategy. In a country dominated by small-scale retailers, it is using its scale to launch private-label brands in several product categories. It is planning to delink these new offerings from the store brand and make them available through other retailers. Future Group hopes to derive most of its growth over the next few years from this initiative.The case...Starting at €8.20
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Rebranding DSM: Creating Sustainable Shared Value
Steve Muylle; Niraj DawarCase IVEY-9B15A039-EMarketing, StrategyDSM, a global life sciences, business-to-business company, is in the midst of a massive multi-year corporate rebranding exercise to incorporate the concept of creating sustainable shared value. With few precedents in this industry, the company must develop its own processes and implementation. Students are challenged to define the next steps in the rebranding, including the promotion of DSM’s sustainability positioning as its key differentiator....Starting at €8.20
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First Energy
Niraj Dawar; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B12A001-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn September 2011, the CEO of First Energy Private Ltd, a start-up enterprise in the alternative energy industry in India, is at a critical juncture. The company has commercialized the technology of biomass cook stoves and has been providing, since 2007, clean and affordable cooking solutions to customers in rural India. A marginal rise in the price of biomass fuel in early 2011 has, however, led to a steep fall in demand, making the continuance ...Starting at €8.20
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Claves para coordinar alianzas de valor
Ariño, Africa; Andreu i Civit, RafaelArticle ART-3133Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyUna alianza en el sector de la salud ilustra cómo las partes pueden coordinar sus actividades de forma eficiente para mejorar el rendimiento conjunto. A partir de una visión de la empresa basada en el conocimiento, los autores identifican los componentes "micro" en los que se basa la coordinación en la empresa y extrapolan este modelo a las alianzas. Centrándose en cómo las capacidades individuales, el conocimiento, las rutinas y los esquemas de ...Starting at €8.20
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Globaltex
Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Vilà, JoaquimCase DG-1403StrategyUna empresa textil pone en marcha la figura del director general de planta como una forma de avanzar desde una típica organización funcional.Starting at €8.20
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Fremap
Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Ricart, Joan EnricCase DG-1127StrategyEl caso presenta a una mutua de accidentes laborales, donde el director general logra cambiar la organización para conseguir una mayor motivación y un desarrollo personal y profesional de los empleados. La idea principal era dotarles de una mayor capacidad de decisión, como consecuencia del mayor grado de responsabilidad que se les daba. De una situación de burocracia y excesiva especialización por parte de los empleados, se pasa a una situación ...Starting at €8.20
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SabadellAtlántico: Procesos de conocimiento en la integración (A)
Andreu i Civit, RafaelCase SI-151Corporate Governance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEste caso plantea el problema de integración de rutinas, procedimientos y culturas resultante de la compra del Banco Atlántico por el Banco de Sabadell. Se presentan distintas visiones del problema, desde puntos de vista y responsabilidades diferentes.Starting at €8.20
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El aprendizaje espontáneo en la empresa: Valor, responsabilidad social corporativa y ética en la profesión de dirigir
Andreu i Civit, RafaelTechnical Note SMN-692Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEn las interacciones entre personas que son necesarias para el funcionamiento normal de cualquier empresa, todas ellas aprenden algo aun sin querer, de forma espontánea. Estos aprendizajes, que llamamos "huellas", pueden entorpecer o favorecer el buen funcionamiento futuro de la empresa y forman parte de los "resultados" de la misma, más allá de los resultados económicos que, normalmente, se toman en consideración. Tener esas huellas en cuenta e...Starting at €8.20
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Spontaneous Learning in the Corporate Context: Values, corporate social responsibility and ethics in professional management
Andreu i Civit, RafaelTechnical Note SMN-692-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThrough interpersonal interactions necessary for the normal operation of any company, people spontaneously learn, even if inadvertently. These learning experiences, which we call "impressions," may hinder or promote the company's future operations and form part of its "performance," measured beyond the normally considered economic performance. Keeping these impressions in mind as a managerial duty naturally adds another dimension to management, a...Starting at €8.20
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SabadellAtlántico: Knowledge Processes in Mergers (B)
Andreu i Civit, RafaelCase SI-152-ECorporate Governance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case, which follows on from the case SabadellAtlántico: Knowledge Processes in Mergers (A) describes how the situation is dealt with in the first year and why, and discusses the most important results.Starting at €5.74