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Cómo la IA cambiará (o no) tu modo de dirigir
Canals, Jordi; Cassiman, Bruno; Elvira, Marta; Sieber, Sandra; Raes, AnneloesArticle ART-3203Information Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAl expandir los límites de lo que las máquinas son capaces de hacer, la inteligencia artificial (IA) plantea nuevos retos a los directivos, desde entender esta tecnología en constante evolución hasta darle un uso práctico o resolver los dilemas éticos asociados a sus crecientes cualidades humanas. Para muchos, se trata de un mundo completamente nuevo. ¿Cómo deben prepararse los directivos para afrontarlo?Starting at €8.20
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How AI Will - and Won't - Change the Way You Manage
Canals, Jordi; Cassiman, Bruno; Elvira, Marta; Sieber, Sandra; Raes, AnneloesArticle ART-3203-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyDigitalization, big data, machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence are reshaping industries, making once strong business models obsolete, growing new enterprises with different capabilities and skill sets, disrupting companies and communities, and ushering in social change. What are the key issues for leadership, governance and management? What new competencies are needed? How should executives respond? In this article, IESE profess...Starting at €8.20
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Fernández-Vega Eye Institute
Serrano, Alejandro; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1137-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementThe Fernández-Vega Eye Institute in Oviedo, Asturias, is possibly the most famous clinic in Spain in its specialty. It is not only notable for its high medical quality; the clinic has also optimized its provision of services using business criteria with the aim of improving the customer experience. Faced with a growing demand for its medical services, the institute's management has to decide between a series of specific options for increasing the...Starting at €8.20
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Roche: The Investment Decision Dilemma
Serrano, Alejandro; Kraiselburd, SantiagoCase P-1171-EFinance, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2015, Roche launched an internal improvement program aimed at reducing the cost of its products, with an emphasis on manufacturing costs. Paul de Wit, the group head in charge of product supply-chain management, was assigned the task of figuring out the appropriate production batch size for each product, with the help of two representatives from the financial and supply-chain management departments. They tested three different approaches on a ...Starting at €8.20
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Mercadona and the Challenge of 2020
Serrano, Alejandro; Girbal, AlbertCase P-1176-EService and Operations ManagementAfter various decades of uninterrupted growth, Mercadona was completing its expansion in Spain and Portugal. Faced with this situation, it was natural in which direction the company strategy should head. Should it continue its expansion process into other countries, such as Italy? If so, what impact would the recent change of model from "integrated suppliers" to "totalers" have on the process?Starting at €8.20
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Fiore di Zucca
Serrano, Alejandro; Calvo, EduardCase P-1183-EService and Operations ManagementFiore di Zucca was one of Italy's leading producers of bags of ready-to-eat precooked vegetables. Francesco Ferrati, the chief operating officer, reviewed the results of a new policy of producing goods without waiting to receive orders from customers. He was satisfied with the improvement in customer response time. However, the inventory had expanded so much that one of the warehouses of finished products had almost come to a standstill twice due...Starting at €8.20
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El milagro italiano
Canals, JordiCase ASE-180EconomicsSe describe la evolución de la economía italiana en las décadas de los setenta y los ochenta y permite discutir su impacto sobre las empresas.Starting at €8.20
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Vodafone AirTouch: The Acquisition of Mannesmann
Canals, JordiCase ASE-403-EEconomicsThe case presents the strategic, financial and cultural dimensions of the hostile takeover bid that Vodafone AirTouch launched on November 1999 to gain control of Mannesmann, the German industrial conglomerate. It allows discussion of industry changes and strategic choices for Vodafone AirTouch, and an analysis of the proposed acquisition, taking into account strategic, financial and cultural factors.Starting at €8.20
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Cellnex: un proyecto de crecimiento
Canals, JordiCase SM-1662Corporate Governance, StrategyEste caso muestra los retos a los que tuvo que enfrentarse Cellnex en el año 2015 tras sus importantes inversiones en emplazamientos de telecomunicaciones y la posible OPV. Cellnex era una unidad de negocio de Abertis con competencias tecnológicas especializadas en tres áreas: transmisión y difusión de señal de radio y televisión (broadcasting), gestión de servicios de infraestructuras para transmisión de datos y voz de telefonía móvil, y otros s...Starting at €8.20
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Amadeus: Boosting Long-Term Growth
Roger Masclans; Canals, JordiCase SM-1691-ECorporate Governance, Innovation and Change, StrategyAmadeus, founded in 1988, had become the largest technology service provider for the travel & tourism (T&T) industry and one of the world's largest software companies, thanks to its global distribution system and its ability to adapt to a changing market. Thirty years later, in the summer of 2018, the company was facing a turning point, one of several in its history. That July, Amadeus CEO Luis Maroto was preparing a meeting with the board of dir...Starting at €8.20