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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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Banco Popular: Impact of the Real Estate Cycle and the Sovereign Crisis in Spain - Teaching Note
Hernandez, Eva; Rahnema Alavi, Ahmad; Suárez, José LuisTeaching Note FT-102-EFinance, StrategyOn Sunday, September 30, 2012, Banco Popular's Board of Directors was summoned to an urgent meeting; the Board faced a difficult decision about the future of the bank. The results of the stress test performed by consultants and external advisors on a large part of the Spanish financial sector had been made public that Friday. According to the stress test, in an adverse macro scenario, Banco Popular would need ¿3.2 billion in additional capital ...Starting at €0.00
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Banco Popular: Impact of the Real Estate Cycle and the Sovereign Crisis in Spain
Hernandez, Eva; Rahnema Alavi, Ahmad; Suárez, José LuisCase F-892-EFinance, StrategyOn Sunday, September 30, 2012, Banco Popular's Board of Directors was summoned to an urgent meeting; the Board faced a difficult decision about the future of the bank. The results of the stress test performed by consultants and external advisors on a large part of the Spanish financial sector had been made public that Friday. According to the stress test, in an adverse macro scenario, Banco Popular would need 3.2 billion in additional capital to...Starting at €8.20
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Abengoa, S.A. ¿se debería ampliar capital a mediados de 2015?
Suárez, José LuisCase F-925Accounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, FinanceA mediados de 2015, Abengoa, S.A. estaba muy endeudada en opinión de analistas externos y de la propia dirección que había puesto en marcha un plan de limitación de nuevas inversiones y de venta de activos que parecía no estar dando buenos resultados. El endeudamiento era producto de un cambio de estrategia en la década anterior, de ser una empresa de servicios de ingeniería pasó a invertir en proyectos de infraestructuras. Abengoa mantuvo la act...Starting at €8.20
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Análisis del riesgo crediticio en ICAX Bank and Trust
Chatburn, Lucy; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-290Decision Analysis, EconomicsEl caso muestra el método utilizado por los bancos para establecer el cálculo del riesgo asociado a la cartera. El sistema está dividido en dos partes: la primera calcula el RAROC (Risk Adjusted Return on Capital) y la segunda parte establece el riesgo y rentabilidad asociado con toda la cartera de préstamos, asumiendo que parte del riesgo de morosidad está relacionado con tener en cuenta factores que afectan al riesgo, en este caso la economí...Starting at €8.20
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WeWork´s Failed IPO: What Does the Future Hold for Financing Digital Tranformation
Suárez, José LuisCase F-952-EFinanceWeWork was highly successful in capturing funds through successive rounds of capitalization and expanding its businesses. It was one of the leading workspace proprietors in New York and London. The problem centered on the fact that its losses grew at the same pace as its sales and value in capitalization rounds. The high value of the company set the bar very high for its IPO, to the extent that it didn?t have necessary demand from investors.Starting at €8.20
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Neinor Homes (B): The Early Years as a Publicly Quoted Company
de Apellániz, Eduardo; Suárez, José LuisCase F-950-ECorporate Governance, FinanceThe case concerns the first IPO of a real estate developer in Spain, which took place in March 2017 after more than ten years without any being produced, and which was to be the largest in Europe. The residential development industry in Spain was recovering, and Neinor Homes, which aimed to set a new standard with a modern business model, a highly professional managerial team, and a strong investment in land, seemed to be poised to lead the buddi...Starting at €5.74
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The Legacy
Lobanova A.; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-302-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case illustrates, in the context of dividing a estate, the trade-off between efficiency (sum of benefits) and equality (distribution of benefits).Starting at €8.20
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Introduction to Optimization
Cabot, J.; Baucells Alibés, ManelTechnical Note ADN-265-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsThis note introduces the available procedures to tackle three common types of optimization problems: Non-linear, linear, and integer optimization. In each case, we provide examples of real applications, and introduce the corresponding optimization procedures to solve them. It also reviews heuristic procedures to tackle more general problems. Three appendices explain (1) the graphical intuition of LP in the case of 2 decision variables, (2) the us...Starting at €8.20