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Forming Ties That Will Free Your Firm
Eisenhardt, K.M.; Ozcan, PinarArticle ART-1533-EStrategyStrategic alliances provide opportunities to strengthen your market position, gain new capabilities and resources, and enable you to grow and expand during difficult times. Many large, highly resourced companies already know this and are leveraging it to their advantage. But how can a small firm with fewer resources obtain and manage a high-performing alliance portfolio? Getting the alliance portfolio you dreamed of, and then managing it well ove...Starting at €8.20
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Mauro Guillén, trayectoria de un académico
Lucas Chinchilla P.Case IIST-DGI-178Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilitySe trata de valorar la trayectoria académica del profesor Mauro Guillen, analizando los pasos que ha dado hasta ser Catedrático en Wharton School. La formación básica, las instituciones deonde ha estado y sus dedicaciones a docencia, dirección de investigación: ¿Qué tipo de profesor es?, ¿qué frutos pueden esperarse?, ¿qué sugerencias podrían hacérsele?, ¿que interés podría haber en contar con su colaboración?.Starting at €8.20
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Airbus International: North American International Business Strategy
Epps, Elena: Diaz-Molina, Ivan; Sorich, David; Townsend, Ryan; White, Anne Marie; Zhang, QuipingCase ESE-ES-C-ES-17-258-EStrategyIt was the beginning of February of 2007 and the weather was mild in Toulouse, France. Louis Gallois, the CEO of EADS (the manufacturer of the Airbus family of planes), was preparing his presentation to the Board for the scheduled meeting in a couple of weeks. The two major questions that puzzled Gallois were, one, what was the pressure from their North American customers for local responsiveness and, two, how was Airbus best to go about meeting ...Starting at €8.20
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De Seattle a Génova
Llamas Mendoza, Agustín; De León González, RodrigoCase IPADE-EPS 01 C 01Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilitySe acercaban los últimos días del mes de noviembre de 1999 y con ellos la Reunión de ministros de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (por sus siglas en inglés WTO), encabezada por su flamante director general Mike Moore, en Seattle, Estados Unidos. En dicha cumbre se tratarían temas como el seguimiento de las negociaciones para la liberalización progresiva del comercio internacional, la orientación del comercio de modo que contribuyera de forma ...Starting at €8.20
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Arterys
Chess, Robert; Lehman, CameronCase SGSB-SM297-EStrategyFabien Beckers, Founder and CEO of Arterys, walks through the creation of his medical / AI imaging company, including the equity struggles of the founding team, building the right team and final the right channel sales partners.Starting at €8.20
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Deepwater Horizon: Spilling oil, money and trust
Vaccaro, Antonino; Machado, AnaCase BE-174-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, StrategyOn April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon¿a floating, semi-submersible, dynamically-positioned drilling unit¿exploded after a massive natural gas gusher from a natural reservoir located more than 13,000 feet under the sea floor. The explosion killed 11 people working on the platform and injured 17 others. After the explosion, an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of 87 days, causing unprecedented damage ...Starting at €8.20
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Bill Ackman's Big Short of Herbalife
Vandebroek, Tom; Ferraro, Fabrizio; Simon, JanCase SM-1611-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance, StrategyThis case describes how hedge fund activist Bill Ackman took a $1 billion short position on the shares of the nutrition company Herbalife. Ackman is convinced that Herbalife's business model is essentially a pyramid scheme, rendering it unsustainable as well as illegal. The case describes his arguments and the evidence he builds on. Other hedge fund titans soon took the opposite position on Herbalife, possibly because they fundamentally disagree ...Starting at €8.20
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United Breaks Guitars
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-202-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementUnited Continental Holdings, generally referred to as United for short, is one of the largest airlines in the world. Although it has its headquarters in Chicago (Illinois, United States), it operates nine different hubs, the other eight being Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark (New Jersey), San Francisco, Tokyo (Japan) and Washington D.C. Like many companies in the transport sector, United claims: ?Our goal is to make every flight a posit...Starting at €8.20
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Guidant Corporation (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is an high tech star up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. After the death of a patient due to the fault of a Guidant's product, the firm enter into fire. Case C provides the epilogue of the long crisis.Starting at €5.74