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GK: Building Businesses in India
Zott, ChristophCase E-155-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and Communication, StrategyThe case provides the opportunity to discuss some of the decisions faced by Gopala Krishnan (GK), an Indian entrepreneur who has developed a number of successful technology-related start-ups. The case presents three ventures that GK worked on in parallel: TimePass India, a cinema and real estate business; Immunizeindia, a social venture; and Banyan Mobile, a music streaming business. GK is faced with three strategic decisions, one for each ventur...Starting at €8.20
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Aparkalo (B): Revised Business Plan
Peeters, Claire; Zott, ChristophCase E-209-EEntrepreneurshipAparkalo was born as the brainchild of Luis París and Iván Rodríguez, who developed the initial business plan for the venture as part of an IESE EMBA course on entrepreneurship. Their simple yet appealing idea was to introduce the concepts of reservations and dynamic pricing as a business model innovation to parking lots, so that clients could reserve spots in advance, and parking lot managers could charge more during peak times (e.g., concerts o...Starting at €5.74
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Aparkalo (C): Normal Crisis or Sudden Death
Peeters, Claire; Zott, ChristophCase E-210-EEntrepreneurshipAparkalo was born as the brainchild of Luis París and Iván Rodríguez, who developed the initial business plan for the venture as part of an IESE EMBA course on entrepreneurship. Their simple yet appealing idea was to introduce the concepts of reservations and dynamic pricing as a business model innovation to parking lots, so that clients could reserve spots in advance, and parking lot managers could charge more during peak times (e.g., concerts o...Starting at €5.74
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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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Estrategias para atraer inversores
Huy, Q.; Zott, ChristophArticle ART-1604Entrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAl complicarse el acceso a los recursos, muchos directivos ven cómo el mundo que conocían desaparece y deja paso a otro muy diferente. Todos los emprendedores han tenido que enfrentarse al reto de demostrar su solvencia sin poder avalarla con pruebas. Su experiencia resulta muy útil para los directivos que, tal vez por primera vez, han de obtener financiación para los grandes proyectos que impulsarán su carrera profesional. A la hora de atraer a ...Starting at €8.20