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ROADLAW Case (B): Manuel Binio, Partner
Stein Martínez, Guido; Mehta, Kandarpkumar Harsiddhbhai; Barrachina, AlbertoCase NEG-19-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThree partners (two professional and one strictly financial) decide to establish a boutique law firm called ROADLAW that will focus on a particular sector, with two business areas: the pharmaceutical industry and restructuring. At first, everything seems to bode well for the future of the project. A draft partnership agreement is prepared but never formally concluded. When problems arise between the two professional partners, the situation become...Starting at €5.74
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ROADLAW Case (A): Santiago Jover, Partner
Stein Martínez, Guido; Mehta, Kandarpkumar Harsiddhbhai; Barrachina, AlbertoCase NEG-18-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThree partners (two professional and one strictly financial) decide to establish a boutique law firm called ROADLAW that will focus on a particular sector, with two business areas: the pharmaceutical industry and restructuring. At first, everything seems to bode well for the future of the project. A draft partnership agreement is prepared but never formally concluded. When problems arise between the two professional partners, the situation become...Starting at €8.20
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Voltium, Inc. (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
del Potro, Eloy; Stein Martínez, Guido; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Vázquez-Dodero de Bonifaz, Juan CarlosCase BE-173-PBBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe manager at Voltium,a European company that was installing electricity in various parts of an African country, pondered whether it was justifiable to yield to the extortion of a local public official of the Dambo region, just as the company was about to finalize the project for the electrification of the area. This case was recognized by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as the best publication in the 2012 Case Writing ...Starting at €8.20
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Challenges for New Managers (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Stein Martínez, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-60-PBLeadership and People ManagementBecoming a manager usually means achieving a professional and social position that brings with it certain rights and privileges other jobs cannot offer. The position gives money and rank, but more importantly it also entails obligations and responsibilities. It is important to understand that these obligations and responsibilities are the essential part of management, while money and rank are just the derived benefits. As in other professional ma...Starting at €8.20
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Effectiveness and Leadership (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Stein Martínez, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-50-PBLeadership and People ManagementAn examination and discussion of the relationship between leadership and effectiveness, starting out from the assumption that leadership and results are bound up together. In the first place it examines the obstacles, principally related to the style of individual management, which a director must overcome to do their job effectively and in order to focus on how to maximize personal and executive effectiveness, and concludes with reflections on w...Starting at €8.20
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EVERIS: "Up-or-Out" Policies (B) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
García Arenillas, Ricardo; Susaeta Erburu, Lourdes; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Stein Martínez, GuidoCase DPO-219-PBLeadership and People ManagementThe case raises the problem of the development of the professional career from a double perspective: 1) The role of the organization: utility versus perversion of HR systems: UP or OUT careers, role of the mentor and 2) The role of the candidates themselves in terms of the responsibility they assumes in key decisions, such as the choice of the type of career within the company, the decision to pursue an international career with expatriation or...Starting at €5.74
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La caída de los dioses
Stein Martínez, Guido; Capapé, JavierArticle ART-1648Leadership and People ManagementLa estadística dice que durante las recesiones se despiden el doble de CEO que en un período normal. Hoy, por tanto, muchos altos ejecutivos están perdiendo su trabajo. Pero esta última ola esconde una corriente de más alcance: en las últimas décadas el mandato medio de un CEO se ha reducido a la mitad. Y lo sorprendente es que los malos resultados explican menos de la mitad de relevos. No hay unanimidad entre los expertos sobre cuáles son los v...Starting at €8.20
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How the Mighty Are Fallen
Stein Martínez, Guido; Capapé, JavierArticle ART-1648-ELeadership and People ManagementCompanies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have lost their jobs lately. Yet this new wave of dismissals masks a deeper trend: In the past two decades, the average tenure of a CEO has halved, and yet, in fewer than half the cases, the reason for their departure was solely because of poor performance. Experts disagree on the reasons for CEO failure, but the variables can be...Starting at €8.20
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Sensofar Tech: Leading or Following the Customer
Rodríguez Bouzo, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1310-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, MarketingAt the beginning of 2013, Ferran Laguarta and Marc Canales, chairman and CEO of Sensofar-Tech (spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPC), respectively, were reviewing how well the company was complying with the 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. The 2012 fiscal year had closed with 6 million in revenue (including subsidiary billing), a staff of 18 employees and an international business network with a global presence in the world's most i...Starting at €8.20
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Carinsa: innovando con el cliente
Rodríguez Bouzo, Silvia; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1311Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, MarketingPor selección estratégica, y haciendo de la necesidad virtud, Carinsa nació y se desarrolló en España sirviendo a las marcas nacionales que, por tamaño o por "contratos de exclusividad" con marcas multinacionales, eran despreciadas por los grandes de la industria como Givaudan, Firmenich e IFF, el top 3 de la industria, con una cuota de mercado del 45%. Esta estrategia de "invisibilidad" o escasa notoriedad le había reportado muy buenos resultado...Starting at €8.20