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Company Culture in a Family-owned Businesses (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelTechnical Note DGN-457-PBStrategyThis technical note is in four parts. The first section looks at the elements that make up the culture of a company, how culture is formed, transmitted and evolves. The second section discusses the differences between family and non-family businesses, and identifies the four generic types of family business. The third section delves into the causes of elements peculiar to the culture of family businesses. Finally, section four looks at specific e...Starting at €8.20
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Orbea (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Grandes, Mª Jesús; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-773-PBAccounting and ControlIn 2002, Orbea was considering manufacturing store brand bicycles for a large-scale retailer. This case is designed to help students learn to look at the effects of a business decision on a company's fixed costs as a part of their cost-benefit analyses. Specifically, the case can be used to look at how to carry out a differential cost analysis of the increase in the company's current asset financing needs.Starting at €8.20
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Being an entrepreneur in a family business (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelTechnical Note DGN-512-PBStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Family Protocol (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel Ángel; Ward, John L.Technical Note DGN-448-PBStrategyThe note includes three examples of protocol in family businesses, with explanations of the different types of relationships between managers, owners, and family members. It also includes a variety of ways of allocating power and property.Starting at €8.20
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Governing Bodies in the Family Company (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelTechnical Note DGN-467-PBStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Soler, Edi; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-805-PBAccounting and ControlIn Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL), the participant plays the role of the hotel's general manager, Sofie Keller, who must make several decisions to improve the profitability of the business. The main ones are: to decide whether to keep or stop offering the conference service, and to analyze how to react to the steep discount on the room price offered by a competitor with similar characteristics. Both decisions are framed in a context of crisis cau...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction to Managerial Accounting (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Ormazabal, Gaizka; Soler, EdiTechnical Note CN-223-PBAccounting and ControlThis technical note is an introduction to managerial accounting, as the title indicates. Accounting systems are measurement procedures that aim to provide useful information about a company. However, there are different users of accounting information. For example, the information that a creditor needs before entering into a loan contract with a company is not necessarily the same information that a manager needs to run the company. While the cre...Starting at €8.20
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Arce (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1361-PBStrategyArce is a family business founded in 1885, run by three brothers of the third generation and incorporating several members of the fourth generation. Of the three businesses that make up the company, one has been in losses for two years, and a consultancy has been hired to revitalize it; another has no growth, and the third is facing very strong new competition. At a meeting of the 22 members of the fourth generation, they ask themselves: do our b...Starting at €8.20
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Jets4future and the Sale of Private Jets (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Segarra, José Antonio; Valentí, Albert; Sanmartí, FrancCase M-1305-PBMarketing, StrategyThe case centers on a European distributor of private jets. It explains the specificities and particular problems involved in marketing high-value industrial products: long sales cycle, complex decision-making unit, and significant investment on the part of the customer for the purchase. It discusses the process of customer acquisition and different marketing investments. It also describes three specific situations involving customers in which de...Starting at €8.20
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Cost Systems (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Ormazabal, Gaizka; Soler, EdiTechnical Note CN-225-PBAccounting and ControlBased on an example, this technical note describes the usual steps involved in designing a cost system. It introduces the typical elements in cost systems and explains how companies can use them to distribute and allocate the costs of resources to different objects. A variation on the same example also allows for illustrating activity-based costing (ABC). The final section analyzes the impact of capacity when it comes to assigning resources using...Starting at €8.20