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Learning From the Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis article shares the insights of "entrepreneurial icebreakers" -- business pioneers who launched private companies in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and who expanded beyond national borders by clearing pathways for themselves and others into international markets around the globe. In documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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Seis problemas de la innovación y cómo abordarlos
Tietz, Matthias A.; Wong, Matthew A.; Rao, Jay; Chuán, Fran; Weintraub, JosephArticle ART-3204Innovation and ChangeEl fomento de una cultura innovadora puede ser un proceso espinoso, tal y como descubrieron los autores en su encuesta a más de 20.000 empleados de 140 compañías. Les preguntaron qué habían hecho bien y qué debían mejorar, lo que les permitió identificar seis áreas que suelen dar problemas y ponen de manifiesto que los directivos no escuchan ni involucran plenamente a sus empleados. Los apuntes y sugerencias de este artículo permiten elaborar un ...Starting at €8.20
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Taurion Inc. - Built to Cure an Incurable Disease - Teaching Note
Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliTeaching Note FT-87-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and ChangeTaurion Inc. is a start-up company established in 2006 and based in Vienna. It specializes in researching the causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as developing diagnostic tools and targeted drugs to combat it. For several years, the founders of the company - two renowned scientists and a finance professional - have been focusing on the role of one deficient protein present in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, the tau protein, which is be...Starting at €0.00
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Taurion Inc. - Built to Cure an Incurable Disease (Entrepreneurs)
Ramírez Maz, Daniel; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-873-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and ChangeTaurion Inc. is a start-up company established in 2006 and based in Vienna. It specializes in researching the causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as developing diagnostic tools and targeted drugs to combat it. For several years, the founders of the company - two renowned scientists and a finance professional - have been focusing on the role of one deficient protein present in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, the tau protein, which is be...Starting at €8.20
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ExQuisit IV European Private Equity Fund: To Invest or Not
Grabenwarter, Uli; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-826-EFinanceThis case introduces an in-class analysis of a private placement memorandum (PPM) of a new private equity fund. Students will evaluate the PPM along the following criteria: the fund's investment strategy, past financial performance, expected returns, the size of the fund's targets, the regions and sectors, holding periods, governance issues, the fund's team and benchmark data.Starting at €8.20
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Accent Equity Partners and the San Sac Deal
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-983-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was April 2019, and Niklas Sloutski, Chief Executive Officer of Accent Equity Partners, a Stockholm-based private equity firm, had just returned from a meeting with the firm's partners. The meeting in which they reviewed the firm's investment portfolio brought discussions about the implications of pursuing a possible exit from the investment in the San Sac Group, a market-leading provider of waste sorting, containment and compaction products i...Starting at €8.20
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Aphrodite Partners versus Cashmine Capital Partners: Regulation Attempts in a Private Industry
Grabenwarter, Uli; Campisi, Sergio; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-842-EEconomics, FinanceThis case deals with transparency and disclosure policies of GPs in the interaction with their investor base and serves as a discussion base for the question, whether Fund management activities in Private Equity should be subject to higher scrutiny and/or financial market regulation. The case projects this industry four years into the future, inviting students to suggest possible conclusions from the ongoing debate on higher regulatory oversight...Starting at €8.20
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Beyond Business Instinct
Agulles, Remei; Prats Moreno, Mª JuliaArticle ART-1450-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementWhile it is widely assumed that entrepreneurs need business competencies like industry analysis, negotiating skills and resource management, other competencies such as interpersonal skills and self-leadership are all too often overlooked. Yet such competencies play a vital role in entrepreneurship - indeed they are a prerequisite for mobilizing the other capabilities and putting them to work in the various contexts in which entrepreneurship take...Starting at €8.20
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Hoja de ruta para emprendedores pioneros
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyTras la caída del Muro de Berlín, muchos emprendedores de la Europa del Este fundaron empresas y se expandieron por todo el mundo, abriendo camino en los mercados internacionales para otros emprendedores. En este artículo, los autores ilustran con la trayectoria de esos pioneros cómo sortear estructuras demasiado rígidas y caducas gracias a nuevas dinámicas, una redefinición de la creación de valor y un cambio de mentalidad. Sus lecciones son esp...Starting at €8.20
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Six Innovation Pain Points and How to Overcome Them
Tietz, Matthias A.; Wong, Matthew A.; Rao, Jay; Chuán, Fran; Weintraub, JosephArticle ART-3204-EInnovation and ChangeEvery company wants to innovate but generating innovative ideas and projects is easier said than done. Fostering a culture of innovation can be a painful process, as the authors discovered from their survey of more than 20,000 employees in 140 firms. In asking what they did well and what needed to be improved, they identified six key pain points that often get in the way of innovation, which ultimately come down to senior executives and managers ...Starting at €8.20