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Multiple Stories to Career Building
Las Heras, MireiaArticle ART-2046-ELeadership and People ManagementCareer success used to be defined in terms of climbing the corporate ladder and moving up the salary scale, often sacrificing other personal aspirations along the way. Yet socioeconomic changes have altered not only the nature of competition, but also people's priorities and their conception of professional development. Rather than a steady ascent to the summit, careers are regarded as winding paths shaped according to various stages and cycles o...Starting at €8.20
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Ignacio Valente (C)
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-183Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Valente es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de automóviles de varias marcas. Un mando intermedio se presenta un día en el trabajo con un vehículo recién comprado a la competencia haciendo ostentación de este hecho ante sus compañeros. El motivo de la compra es que en otra empresa le han valorado algo mejor el vehículo a entregar como parte del precio de compra. A pesar de que en su empresa le habían dado facilidades, de...Starting at €5.74
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Olivia Baker recibe un e-mail
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-251Entrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementOlivia sigue con sus planes de expansión, pero sin tener demasiado en cuenta a uno de los miembros de su equipo, George Foster, que fue el que la ayudó en sus inicios. Olivia ha personalizado demasiado su empresa, de forma que no delega y concentra en ella todo el poder, con las debidas consecuencias y sin dar protagonismo al resto del equipo.Starting at €8.20
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Alex López e Irene Fariñas: ¿Y ahora qué
Las Heras, MireiaCase DPO-398Leadership and People ManagementEl caso expone lo sucedido desde que Álex López decide abandonar su puesto de trabajo y convertirse en socio de Sartia, en 2008, hasta el año 2013, momento en que esperan a su tercer hijo -esta vez, una niña- y se ha producido una evolución -en cierto modo, inesperada- en ambas carreras profesionales.Starting at €8.20
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Suely - ¿adónde voy ahora : Desarrollo de una carrera
Las Heras, Mireia; Fuentes Tejada, SuelyCase DPO-431Leadership and People ManagementSuely se encuentra ante la disyuntiva de qué camino tomar en su trayectoria profesional. Ha estudiado un EMBA en el IESE, se ha casado recientemente (hace tan solo tres años), tiene una hija de quince meses, acaba de ser despedida por un ERE, su marido es emprendedor ¿Qué debería hacer?Starting at €8.20
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Alex López and Irene Fariñas: Now what
Las Heras, MireiaCase DPO-398-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case sets out what has happened since Álex López decided to leave his job to become a partner at Sartia in 2008, through to the year 2013, when his wife is expecting their third child, a girl this time, and there have been developments - unexpected, in some ways - in both their careers.Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks (Spanish version)
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-816S13EntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20
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The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.Article HBS-F1007C-EStrategyWith job growth lagging, local communities will be tempted to use tax breaks to attract big employers, but new research by Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr of Harvard Business School indicates that's a misguided approach-growth is highly correlated with an abundance of small firms, not the presence of a few big ones.Starting at €8.20
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AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
Gross, Daniel P.; Kerr, William R.Case HBS-718486-EStrategyBy the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually-operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that were faster and more cost-effective and did not require human operators. By the 1930s, the changeover has been completed or is underway in most American cities with over 50,000 peo...Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-807106-EEntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20