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Cuidado con las trampas de su mente
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Weber, MartinArticle ART-1447Decision AnalysisEn los negocios, como en el resto de las facetas de la vida, la incertidumbre acecha detrás de cada esquina. ¿Qué pasará en el futuro? ¿Podemos estar preparados para lo imprevisto? ¿Cuál es la decisión correcta en momentos así? Los seres humanos hemos desarrollado una serie de mecansimos inconscientes que ayudan a sobrellevar esa inseguridad. Son útiles para no sentirnos abrumados e impiden que nos paralicemos, pero también pueden inhibir nuestra...Starting at €8.20
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Mind Your Mind Traps
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Weber, MartinArticle ART-1447-EDecision AnalysisIn business, as in other areas of life, uncertainty lurks around every corner. What does the future hold? How can we prepare for the unexpected? What is the right decision at times like this? We humans have developed a repertoire of unconscious mechanisms to help us cope with insecurity. While these mechanisms may assuage feelings of helplessness and paralysis, they can also cloud our judgment. The authors explain how three such mind traps work: ...Starting at €8.20
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Volkswagen Navarra, 8th Collective Agreement (C): Latest negotiations
Stein, Guido; Escobar, Carlos; Cuadrado, Marta; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase DPO-328-EEconomics, Leadership and People ManagementAfter more than eight months without the negotiating parties managing to reach an agreement, the unions decided to call in their German counterpart to help find a solution and make the parent company aware of why it had not been possible to reach an agreement in Spain. On the other hand, in response to the drawn out nature of the negotiating period, the management from Wolfsburg contacted Patrick and Carlos to find out what was causing the lack o...Starting at €5.74
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Volkswagen Navarra, 8th Collective Agreement (A): An agreement for the future
Stein, Guido; Escobar, Carlos; Cuadrado, Marta; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase DPO-326-EEconomics, Leadership and People ManagementIn September 2012, Carlos Escobar, director of human resources for the Volkswagen plant in Navarra (hereafter, VW Navarra), was sitting in his office reading the mail that his secretary left him on his desk each morning. That day, the first letter in the pile was from Germany, signed by Herbert Waltl, the production manager for all the European Volkswagen (VW) plants. After reading the letter, Carlos called Patrick Danau, general manager of VW Es...Starting at €8.20
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Hertz & Dollar Thrifty
Estrada, JavierCase F-906-EFinanceMark Frissora, Hertz's chief executive officer and chairman of the Board, had been pushing Elyse Douglas, the company's chief financial officer, to come up with a figure. The figure was how much Hertz should bid to acquire Dollar Thrifty and still generate value for Hertz's shareholders. Frissora had been pursuing the acquisition of Dollar Thrifty for almost three years now, and yet a deal remained elusive. "It's now or never," Frissora told Doug...Starting at €8.20
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Hertz y Dollar Thrifty: una introducción al DCF
Estrada, JavierCase F-940Entrepreneurship, FinanceEste caso examina el proceso detrás del intento de adquisición de Dollar Thrifty por parte de Hertz. Hertz Global Holdings (Hertz) es una empresa de alquiler de automóviles y equipos con sede en Park Ridge, Nueva Jersey. Walter Jacobs fundó la empresa en 1918, en Chicago, y la vendió, en 1923, a John Hertz, quien la rebautizó como Hertz Drive-Ur-Self System. Con el tiempo, Hertz pasó por varios propietarios, y cotiza en la Bolsa de Valores de Nu...Starting at €8.20
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Atlas Financial Advisors
Estrada, JavierCase F-954-EFinanceThe team of advisors under the supervision of John Galt gathered at the Coral Gables, Florida, offices of Atlas Financial Advisors in early January 2020. The meeting was held with the sole purpose of issuing a recommendation to the Board of Trustees of the Green Hills golf club, whose $200 million endowment Atlas advised. This case replaces the F-727 Atlas Investment Management case from the same author.Starting at €8.20
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Hilton Hotels, Corp.
Estrada, JavierCase F-711FinanceUn cliente que solicita la formación de una cartera de valores, se muestra interesado en que en la misma hayan acciones de los hoteles Hilton. Análisis de la situación de dicha cadena para la toma de una decisión correcta.Starting at €8.20
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Stealth Sports - Teaching Note
Estrada, JavierTeaching Note FT-122-EFinanceEarly in 2020, Pamela Taggart, the recently-appointed CFO of Stealth Sports (a non-publicly-trade company), had one overriding task and little time to waste: She needed to estimate a hurdle rate to force some discipline in the decision-making process of the company. Her problem was that unlike some of the companies she had worked for before, Stealth was not publicly traded; that complicated her job but did not make it impossible. This case is des...Starting at €0.00
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The Essential Financial Toolkit: Tool 2 - Mean Returns
Estrada, JavierTechnical Note FN-553-EFinanceThis note discusses three definitions of mean returns and highlights their different interpretations and uses. In many cases, particularly when evaluating risky assets, the concept of "mean return"¿ is meaningless and stating the type of mean return discussed, arithmetic or geometric, is essential. Also, when investors trade actively, their mean return and that of the asset in which they invest may differ, which requires yet another concept, the ...Starting at €8.20