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Hill Country Snack Foods Co. (Spanish version)
Kester, W. Carl; Stephenson, CraigCase HBS-913S04FinanceHill Country Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over costs and operating the business as efficiently as possible. The company invests in additional capacity and new products only when attractive, low-risk opportunities are identified and can be funded internally. The firm's cultur...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Specific Growth Initiatives: A Discovery-Driven Approach
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3070BC-EOnce corporate leadership has defined what success should look like for the whole portfolio of new initiatives it will be pursuing, the next step is to flesh out discovery-driven plans for each of the major initiatives. This chapter shows you how to connect your growth strategy and internal processes to your specific strategic initiatives and provides an example of how to start a discovery-driven plan. This chapter is excerpted from "Discovery-Dr...Starting at €8.20
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Designing the Business Model Architecture: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3071BC-EIn reality, your strategy is what projects you are working on and how you run them, not what's printed on an annual report or posted on your website. Thus, whether you are a CEO or someone else in the organization, you must have the right practices in place to manage strategic growth initiatives effectively. This chapter addresses how to design the fundamental business that will generate growth, including establishing the viability of a business,...Starting at €8.20
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Actively Managing and Redirecting Projects: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3073BC-EIn an emerging business, you will learn a lot from situations that reveal how close your assumptions are to what is actually unfolding. Sometimes, these situations or events occur naturally as you work on developing a business. Other times, you'll have to deliberately create a management intervention to get at the information. Either way, these events can be used as checkpoints in the discovery-driven plan to deliberately structure the systematic...Starting at €8.20
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Implementing Discovery-Driven Growth: What Other Firms Have Done and How You Can Make It Work for You
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3074BC-EIt is axiomatic that before change can take place in an organization, there has to be some reason for it. In the case of discovery-driven growth (DDG), the impetus is almost always someone who recognizes problems in the organization's current tools and approaches to growth or innovation or who is frustrated with the poor track record of growth programs. This chapter provides real-world examples of why some companies decided to adopt discovery-dri...Starting at €8.20
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Tiffany & Co. 1993 (Spanish version)
Kester, W. Carl; Backstrand, KendallCase HBS-202S13FinanceLa reestructuración de la venta al por menor del acuerdo de Tiffany con Mitsukoshi Ltd. en 1993 expuso a Tiffany sustancial volatilidad del tipo de cambio yen / dólar que no se había enfrentado con anterioridad. Esta nueva exposición requiere Tiffany para establecer políticas y prácticas de gestión de riesgo. La administración debe determinar si a Seto, cuál es el objetivo de la cobertura debe ser, la cantidad de exposición a la cubierta, y qué i...Starting at €8.20
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El proyecto de la mina de carbón An Tai Bao
Kester, W. Carl; Melnick, Richard P.Case HBS-206S08FinanceUn Tai Bao es la mayor mina de carbón a cielo abierto más grande del mundo y se encuentra en la provincia china de Shanxi. Después de ocho años de planificación y negociación, Occidental Petroleum, el socio extranjero en el trato, está a punto de firmar un acuerdo de financiación y la propiedad de $ 475 millones de dólares que implica $ 20 millones de su propio patrimonio y recurso limitado. El acuerdo contiene una serie de características inusua...Starting at €8.20
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SureCut Shears, Inc. (Spanish version)
Kester, W. CarlCase HBS-208S29FinanceA bank loan officer must determine whether to waive convenants and extend terms on a line of credit granted to SureCut Shears. At issue is whether the inability of SureCut to pay down its line of credit is due to a temporary cyclical downturn or other long-term financial problems.Starting at €8.20
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Estrategias de inversión en opciones del Fondo Keller
Kester, W. CarlCase HBS-210S14FinanceLa decisión de un fondo de inversión de tipo cerrado a la negociación de opciones estudio proporciona una oportunidad para estudiar el perfil de beneficio y los precios de múltiples estrategias de inversión opción (por ejemplo, comprar una llamada, comprar una opción de venta, escribir una llamada, comprar llamadas stock-escritura, etc.) . Este caso está diseñado para proporcionar a los estudiantes una introducción a la valoración de opciones....Starting at €8.20
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Valuing Capital Investment Projects (Spanish version)
Kester, W. CarlCase HBS-213S09FinanceA collection of problems that introduces students to the application of discounted cash flow analysis in the evaluation of capital budgeting problems.Starting at €8.20