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Manifiesto por una gestión empresarial más humana
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Rosanas Martí, Josep MariaArticle ART-2127Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyLa credibilidad de la empresa como institución está en mínimos históricos. La mayoría de las medidas prescritas no hacen sino pasar de puntillas por los problemas. Lo que se necesita realmente es una vuelta radical a los fundamentos de la dirección de empresas y de nuestros modelos económicos actuales. En este artículo los autores repasan las teorías y prácticas que nos han llevado hasta aquí y proponen siete pilares para avanzar hacia una gestió...Starting at €8.20
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Writing a Manifesto for Better Management
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Rosanas Martí, Josep MariaArticle ART-2127-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyThe litany of institutional, market and leadership failures that precipitated one of the worst economic crises in modern history is staggering. Yet efforts by policy makers and business leaders to improve matters have so far fallen short of whats truly needed, and do little but tinker at the very edges of the economic system. This article makes seven key recommendations to move us toward a more humanistic model of management, placing human value...Starting at €8.20
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Las genuinas responsabilidades de la dirección general
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Ricart Costa, Joan EnricArticle ART-2639Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyUn director general debe tocar muchas y muy variadas teclas. Pero no todas son igualmente relevantes. Los autores identifican cuatro grandes prioridades de la dirección general y otras tantas tareas básicas. Pero advierten que es imprescindible entenderlas y gestionarlas todas como un conjunto inseparable de elementos interdependientes cuya dinámica es especialmente relevante. Asimismo, señalan la necesidad de hacerlo con disciplina en las decisi...Starting at €8.20
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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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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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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
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The Genuine Responsibilities of the CEO
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Ricart Costa, Joan EnricArticle ART-2639-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA CEO must pull many levers, but not all are equally relevant. Based on hundreds of interviews they conducted with senior executives, the authors identify four main priorities for general management, corresponding with four primary tasks. They caution, however, that executives must understand and manage them all as an inseparable whole of interdependent, highly dynamic elements. They also emphasize that CEOs need to be disciplined in their decisi...Starting at €8.20