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Ignacio Valente (C)
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-183Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Valente es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de automóviles de varias marcas. Un mando intermedio se presenta un día en el trabajo con un vehículo recién comprado a la competencia haciendo ostentación de este hecho ante sus compañeros. El motivo de la compra es que en otra empresa le han valorado algo mejor el vehículo a entregar como parte del precio de compra. A pesar de que en su empresa le habían dado facilidades, de...Starting at €5.74
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Atam: Innovating in the Social Sector (A)
Elvira, Marta; Prats, Mª Julia; Plaza López, LuisCase DPO-244-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeAtam is an association of Grupo Telefónica, which was founded in 1973 with the aim of providing assistance for the disabled and elderly dependents. It was the result of an agreement between the company and its labor unions. It is a nonprofit, national organization, declared to be serving the public interest, and has 60,000 members belonging to 28 companies of the group. Atam has three major areas of action: individual financial support, direct-ca...Starting at €8.20
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Additive Manufacturing at Etnia Barcelona
Calvo, Eduard; Lago, Alejandro; Sabrià, FedeCase P-1155-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementEtnia Barcelona, a niche manufacturer of high-quality fashion eyewear, is considering its next move in light of the advances being made in additive manufacturing, which could require the company to rethink everything from product design to capacity footprint and logistics. The case covers the company's design-to-sale process, raw material procurement, and manufacturing operations. Etnia Barcelona has seen steady growth in revenues since its found...Starting at €8.20
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Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals: Dr. Beat Richner's Lifework
Olivares, Ignacio; Kase, KimioCase SM-1548-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementDr. Beat Richner, a 62-year-old Swiss pediatrician, set up children's hospitals in 1991 at the behest of the Cambodian King after the devastation brought about by the civil war. By 2009 he has managed to open and run four of them, both in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. They are almost entirely dependent on private donations, which, collected through his cello concerts and the Kantha Bopha Foundation, largely come from Europe and other parts of the wo...Starting at €8.20
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Laia Bertran (B): Time to Go Home
Brossa, Jordi; Chinchilla, Nuria; Moragas Freixa, MarujaCase DPO-141-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThe story of Laia and Jordi, a young expat couple who operate as a team and adapt to successive changes they must make to pursue their respective careers, relocating together when necessary. Laia, an industrial engineer, decides to leave her company to follow her husband to Paris, where his new job is based. She finds a position in the city with one of Europe's biggest steel producers. Years later, the careers of both partners, their family plans...Starting at €5.74
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Atam: A New Model of Sustainable Social Welfare (C)
Elvira, Marta; Prats, Mª JuliaCase DPO-389-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe economic crisis and the successive redundancy plans of Telefónica in Spain were having an inexorable effect on the viability of Atam and its economic operations. The association had to complete its restructuring of the old service delivery system and concentrate on building a new model for a sustainable social welfare institution. A turning point was reached, from which point Atam began to speed up all the transformation processes. The case d...Starting at €5.74
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Jesús de Benito en S&P (A)
Stein, Guido; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosCase ASN-53Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipEn noviembre de 1999, después de años de duro trabajo, Jesús de Benito, propietario y director general de S&P, empresa que implantaba SAP y otros servicios informáticos, vislumbraba la posibilidad de trasformar la empresa que había creado en una importante suma de dinero.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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Inalesa (A)
Melé, DomènecCase TD-112Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityUn experimentado directivo empresarial se incorpora en un a empresa en plena crisis como Director General. Pronto descubre un sin fin de irregularidades que incluyen sobornos, evasión de impuestos, extorsiones, cartel en varios productos, falsifiación de facturas, activos muy hinchados y otras. Por otra parte, el personal está muy desmotivato y la productividad es baja. Se plantea qué puede hacer ante las irregularidades y para sacar la empresa d...Starting at €8.20
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Atam: el día después (B)
Elvira, Marta; Prats, Mª Julia; Plaza López, LuisCase DPO-245Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeIgnacio Aizpún (CEO) y su equipo idearon una solución que otorgó a Atam una mayor viabilidad. La estrategia principal consistía en concentrar las actividades económicas y en crear spin-offs con ánimo de lucro; es decir, siguiendo la tradición de innovar en todos sus aspectos de gestión, la Asociación lanzaría al mercado sociedades con ánimo de lucro provenientes del sector social. Así, a partir de entonces, Atam creó tres sociedades mercantiles a...Starting at €5.74