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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documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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Exportflowers BV
Zantinga J.Case P-653-EService and Operations ManagementA small export company in the Dutch cut flower industry finds itself confronted with a series of demands from a large UK supermarket. Issues include channel integration and control, the types of risks encountered in this type of industry, as well as purchasing policies at an auction center and large company. The case includes a description of the Dutch Auction System as used in the flower trade. A video can be supplied through the Flower Bureau i...Starting at €8.20
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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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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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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