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Eye Care (A): A Business Manager Career
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-146-ELeadership and People Management, MarketingAlejandro Lanzagorta is having some doubts about his career as regional Business Manager of the multinational Eye Care, world leader in the development and sales of ophthalmic products. The new General Manager in Spain has brought in organizational and salary changes which clash with what has so far been done very successfully.Starting at €8.20
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Eye Care (C): Alejandro Lanzagora's Performance Assessment
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-166-ELeadership and People Management, MarketingIn February 2009 Alejandro Lanzagorta, a Business Manager at Eye Care, meets with the director of his business unit, Tiago de Vasconcelos, to discuss his annual performance assessment. In quantitative terms, Alejandro's sales results are better than expected, in fact, the best in the company. Opinions differ, however, over cost management, where Alejandro believes he has also exceeded expectations. The disagreement intensifies when the discussion...Starting at €5.74
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Eye Care (B): Changes
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-147-ELeadership and People Management, MarketingIn 2009 Alejandro was pondering on his future in the company and how he would be affected by the changes brought in by his boss, Vasconcelos, and at the same time wondering about the strange advice given him again by the Financial Director, also a friend of his, which was different from what he'd said four months earlier: "Be patient and hold on a little longer, but be careful not to slip on any banana skins you may find laid in your path."Starting at €5.74
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Lentes multifocales de Eye Care: Información del Business Manager
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase E-128Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementEl lunes 12 de enero de 2009, El director médico de Buenavista acababa de llamar a Alejandro solicitando una oferta para 4.000 lentes multifocales DifraCare y 8.000 monofocales MonoCare. Después de meses de un cuidadoso trabajo de preparación, Alejandro Lanzagorta , Business Manager de Eye Care, empresa líder en el desarrollo y comercialización de productos ofálmicos, finalmente iba a lograr sentar a negociar al Dr Rud Mackay, director médico y ...Starting at €8.20
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North Dakota Trade Office: Advising a Pasta Exporter
Derek Lehmberg; Jaeha LeeCase IVEY-W25445-EStrategyIn September of 2020, an international business executive at the North Dakota Trade Office was asked by a client company, Dakota Growers Pasta Company Inc., to advise it on how to increase pasta exports to South Korea. Like many other firms in North Dakota, the client faced a number of hurdles to building successful export businesses. These included limited exposure to foreign markets and limited expertise in trade-related regulations and process...Starting at €8.20
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Eye Care (C): La evaluación del desempeño de Alejandro Lanzagorta
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-166Leadership and People Management, MarketingAlejandro Lanzagorta, "Business Manager" de Eye Care, es evaluado por el director de su unidad de negocio, Tiago De Vasconcelos, en febrero de 2009. Los resultados cuantitativos de ventas superan lo esperado, siendo el mejor de la compañía. Sin embargo, surge la discusión en la gestión de costes, porque Alejandro qcree que también supera lo esperado. Las desaveniencias se enfatizan al tratar los factores relacionados con su capacidad de liderazgo...Starting at €5.74
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General Electric: An Outlier in Developing CEO Talent
W. Glenn Rowe; Derek Lehmberg; Rod E. White; John R. PhillipsArticle IVEY-9B09TA02-EStrategyA recent Ivey study confirms the commonly held view that General Electric is an excellent breeding ground for future business leaders. This article summarizes the study and its three conclusions: Firms led by CEOs who were trained at GE will outperform firms led by CEOs who were not; GE's reputation for developing CEO talent is, in fact, well deserved and not mere hype; and GE appears to develop more CEO talent than other noted CEO talent-generat...Starting at €8.20
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Boots PLC: Japan Market Entry
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B12M048-EStrategyIn 1998, Boots PLC was in the midst of planning to enter the Japanese retail drugstore market. Boots, a household name in the United Kingdom and a fixture in traditional English shopping areas known as High Street, had an impressive lineup of Boots-branded health and beauty products. Boots developed, manufactured, marketed, and sold these products through its chain of Boots The Chemists stores. Management was convinced that the markets for health...Starting at €8.20
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Sharp Corporation: Beyond Japan
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M007-EStrategyFaced with major losses from operations, Sharp Corporation’s young and unconventional president questioned the company’s long-standing operating model. Sharp was a leader in the area of liquid crystal display (LCD) technology and manufacturing. It also held strong positions in several categories of consumer electronics in the Japanese market. Although Sharp had been increasing its involvement in overseas markets, it had yet to replicate its succe...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (A)
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M093-EStrategyIn 2004, Kaneo Itoh, president of the consumer electronics firm Pioneer Corporation, was considering acquiring the plasma display operations of another Japanese firm, NEC. Pioneer had decided some years ago that plasma display panel (PDP) technology was a good strategic area in which to invest. Recently, Pioneer had been selling increasing numbers of plasma television sets using PDPs. While the company was building a new PDP production facility t...Starting at €8.20