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Cuando vender activos es una estrategia
Mair, Johanna; Moschieri, CaterinaArticle ART-1970StrategyLa enajenación de parte de una empresa suele malinterpretarse. Se ve como un instrumento al que recurren las grandes empresas para ¿sacar la basura¿, pero lo cierto es que puede ser el resultado de una decisión estratégica rentable tanto para la matriz como para la unidad de negocio de la que se desprende. Las empresas enajenan por razones legales o estratégicas. A su vez, la enajenación puede adoptar muchas formas, entre ellas la creación de una...Starting at €8.20
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Recupera, S.A.
Pancorvo, JorgeCase PAD-P-C-343Service and Operations ManagementDardo López-Dolz, propietario del negocio y persona emprendedora, afronta varias decisiones para conseguir que su empresa siga creciendo. Sin embargo, la naturaleza del servicio parte de una anomalía de las transacciones de compraventa: un deudor que no cumple sus obligaciones según lo convenido. La demanda tiene un comportamiento irregular, con expedientes de cobranza que varían según cada caso, y con exigencias operativas distintas por cad...Starting at €8.20
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Embraer: Shaking Up the Aircraft Manufacturing Market
Chen, Ming-Jer; Zimath, Alexandre; Maat, Andrea; Lopes, Fabiano; Reynolds, William; Silva, Nivaldo; Vaughters, Charles; Watt, AaronCase DARDEN-S-0135-EStrategyThe CEO of Embraer, reflects on his company’s dramatic ascent to its position as the world’s leading regional aircraft manufacturer. Since becoming a private company, Embraer had successfully introduced seven commercial aircraft models to the market, including its latest, the 118-seat EMBRAER 195. Now, he is concerned because Embraer does not know what to expect from Bombardier, Boeing, and Airbus regarding their competitive response to his compa...Starting at €8.20
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Williams Controls (A)
Chen, Ming-Jer; Rettig, TonyCase DARDEN-S-0190-EStrategyWilliams Controls CEO, John Easton, has outlined the new strategic plan he wants to put in place to improve the company’s market opportunities and accelerate its growth. The plan involves embarking on an expansive acquisition spree designed to vertically integrate the company’s supply chain and simultaneously expand its product offering beyond the core electronic throttle control (ETC) business. Easton’s plan sounded compelling but complicated an...Starting at €8.20
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The Power of One
Chen, Ming-Jer; Tucker, CharlesTechnical Note DARDEN-S-0204-EStrategyEach of us possesses an inner force that enables us to be optimally effective in all aspects of life. The power of one is much more than an abstraction that animates our actions. It has practical applications for day-to-day life, from school to work, and throughout our personal lives. The power of one provides a way to converse with ourselves, to crystallize what is important, thereby enabling us to make coherent decisions. And because it emanate...Starting at €8.20
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Ambiculture: Seeking the Multicultural Middle
Chen, Ming-Jer; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0266-EStrategySeries of scenarios each presenting a situation that asks the student to decide how to proceed.Starting at €8.20
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LEGO Bricks: Fit for the Big Screen
Chen, Ming-Jer; Craddock, JennyCase DARDEN-S-0296-EStrategyFor years Danish toymaker LEGO had turned down multiple attempts from directors and producers to make a LEGO movie. Now the CEO of the Danish toymaker has gotten a movie pitch from Warner Brothers. The entire LEGO brand is at risk if the movie is poorly eStarting at €8.20
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"Why Should I Care?"
Chen, Ming-Jer; Tucker, CharlesCase DARDEN-S-0301-EStrategyA scholar in the area of organizational behavior has just learned that her paper on gender diversity has been accepted by a top management journal. She is looking forward to today’s class because her new paper, which she had assigned as reading for class, could serve as a test run to discovering what kind of response her research would elicit from practical-minded business students. But instead she must make a case for the relevance of research i...Starting at €8.20
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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20
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International Expansion of Escuela Nueva: A Transformative Pedagogy on a Global Scale
Hehenberger, Lisa; Moral, N.; Mair, JohannaCase SM-1556-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenging task of expanding the widely successful Escuela Nueva pedagogy on a global scale. Escuela Nueva provides a cost effective, replicable and scalable solution to improve the quality of basic education in low income schools. It started in rural Colombia, but has since expanded principally to a large number of Latin American countries. Evidence shows that wherever Escuela Nueva is implemented, children become ...Starting at €8.20