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The Sales Trend at Guarini
Osuna, Ignacio; Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelCase AD-370-EDecision AnalysisGuarini, a European supermarket brand, has about 150 stores in Spain. Being able to track about a 70% of the purchases through customer debit cards, Julia García, Guarini's marketing director for Spain, feels herself compelled to exploit Guarini's database, which still remains largely underused. She plans a pilot study using data from one of the stores located in Barcelona. She collects weekly sales data covering two years and tries to estimate f...Starting at €8.20
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HR Analytics at Barney - Teaching Note
Alegre, InésTeaching Note ADT-42-EAccounting and Control, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementBarney Consumer Products is a multinational company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company's performance has got worse in the past couple of years and the different departments blame each other. A board meeting is taking place and the HR manager suggests that the decrease in performance might be due to employee demotivation and stress. The other board members tell the HR manager to provide data to back up his suggestion. The HR manager ...Starting at €0.00
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HR Analytics at Barney
N'Guessan, Marie Noelle; Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelCase AD-369-EAccounting and Control, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementBarney Consumer Products (BCP) is a large company based in South Africa. The company's performance has worsened in the last couple of years, and the different departments blame each other. The Human Resources (HR) department manager suggest that the decrease in performance could be driven by a decrease in employee performance due to lack of motivation and stress. The board asks the HR manager to provide some data to back up his intuition. The HR ...Starting at €8.20
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Kapoor's Portfolio
Canela, Miguel Ángel; Alegre, Inés; Moleskis, MelinaFocused Case ADFC-5-EDecision AnalysisThe case follows a trainee portfolio manager in her attempt to build an investment portfolio using stocks on India's National Stock Exchange (NSE). Within the framework of the capital asset pricing model, this note focuses on the computation of financial returns, risk and diversification strategies.Starting at €8.20
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Rabobank Corporate Netherlands: Turning the Smartphone into an Engine of Bottom-Line Growth
Stremersch, Stefan; Camacho, NunoCase M-1286-EMarketingSet in late 2011, this case study enables the discussion of a bank's possibilities to develop new business amid drastic technological and macroeconomic changes promising to revolutionize the whole payment value chain. In particular, several emerging technologies - such as near-field communication (NFC) - promised to turn mobile payments into a trillion-dollar industry in a period of less than five years. The case invites students to step into the...Starting at €8.20
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Caesar IT Services. Marketing Multiple Value Propositions in one Firm - Teaching Note
Stremersch, Stefan; Bellezza, SilviaTeaching Note MT-31-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementThe Caesar case is pretty flexible and lends itself easily to the debate of the following four main topics: Conjoint Analysis, Ambidextrous Organization, Brand Endorsement and Implementation. Depending on the learning objectives, the case discussion can be tailored around any of the four foci. The teaching note deals in depth with each area of discussion and provides Professors with suggestions on how to lead class discussion.Starting at €0.00
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Jia Wu goes West - Teaching Note
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinTeaching Note ADT-33-EDecision Analysis, MarketingThe objective of this note is to illustrate forecasting with monthly sales data. It is based on historical data of household goods sales in United Kingdom, from January 1997 to December 2011. The student is challenged to develop a model for these data and to calculate a forecast for 2012 sales, based on this model. There is a companion IESE focus case, - ADFC-003 -"The Jia Wu Expansion", that covers the prior expansion of Jia Wu to Australia. The...Starting at €0.00
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Alcatel-Lucent: Marketing the Cell Phone as a Mobile Wallet - Teaching Note
Camacho, Nuno; Verniers, Isabel; García Pont, Carlos; Stremersch, StefanTeaching Note MT-34-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingAlcatel-Lucent (ALU) was preparing itself for the launch of a new business: mobile payment services. Mobile payment involves transactions between consumers and merchants, or among consumers, using their mobilie phones, and the emergence of a new technology in which ALU had strong expertise - near-filed communication (NFC) - represented a huge opportunity, as analysts expected the market for mobile payments to explode in the coming years. Yet, ALU...Starting at €0.00
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Alcatel-Lucent: Marketing the Cell Phone as a Mobile Wallet
Camacho, Nuno; Verniers, Isabel; García Pont, Carlos; Stremersch, StefanCase M-1279-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, MarketingAlcatel-Lucent (ALU) was gearing up for the launch of a new business: mobile payment services. Mobile payment involves cash transactions between consumers and merchants or between consumers using their mobile phones. The emergence of a new technology in which ALU had strong expertise - near-filed communication (NFC) - represented a huge opportunity, as analysts expected the market for mobile payments to explode in the coming years. But to avoid p...Starting at €8.20
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Palau de la Música Catalana: Management, Control and Fragility of Culture (Chinese Version)
Alegre, Inés; Davila, AntonioCase C-751-ZHAccounting and ControlThe case describes the events that led to a leadership renewal in the Palau de la Música Catalana. It deals with issues ranging from internal control, corporate governance, non-profit groups and management in the organization, as a resource for the institution.Starting at €8.20