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Altair (A): The Start of a Management Consulting Firm
Martínez, Juan Carlos; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-147-EEntrepreneurshipOn December 15, 2009, following a long discussion, Juan Carlos Martínez accompanied one of his Advisory Board members to the door. While returning to the office to tidy his desk, he thought about the last words said to him: "Remember what we ended up invoicing in 2008, in the middle of the crisis. You and I both know how hard it was to get there... Of course we can make it happen again." Juan Carlos was definitely thinking along the same lines, b...Starting at €8.20
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Jia Wu goes West - Teaching Note
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinTeaching Note ADT-33-EDecision Analysis, MarketingThe objective of this note is to illustrate forecasting with monthly sales data. It is based on historical data of household goods sales in United Kingdom, from January 1997 to December 2011. The student is challenged to develop a model for these data and to calculate a forecast for 2012 sales, based on this model. There is a companion IESE focus case, - ADFC-003 -"The Jia Wu Expansion", that covers the prior expansion of Jia Wu to Australia. The...Starting at €0.00
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Altair (A): los inicios de una firma de consultoría de dirección
Martínez, Juan Carlos; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-147EntrepreneurshipEl 15 de diciembre de 2009, Juan Carlos Martínez acompañó a un miembro de su consejo asesor a la puerta y, mientras volvía al despacho para recoger los papeles de la mesa, reflexionó sobre las últimas palabras que, después de un largo rato de debate, le había dicho: "Acuérdate de lo que llegamos a facturar en el 2008, en plena crisis, y tú y yo sabemos que no fue fácil llegar hasta ahí Seguro que esta vez conseguimos darle la vuelta también ". C...Starting at €8.20
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Jia Wu Goes West
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinFocused Case ADFC-4-EDecision Analysis, MarketingThe objective of this case is to illustrate forecasting with monthly sales data. It is based on historical data for household goods sales in the United Kingdom from January 1997 to December 2011. Students are challenged to develop a model for this data and to calculate a forecast for 2012 sales based on that model. There is a companion IESE focus case, ADFC-3 "The Jia Wu Expansion," which describes Jia Wu's earlier expansion to Australia. The pur...Starting at €8.20
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The Barcelona Mobile World Congress - Teaching Note
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinTeaching Note ADT-32-EDecision AnalysisPopulations are usually too big to be observed in their entirety. What we do, in practice, is to draw a sample from the population, perform our statistical analysis on the sample and extrapolate our results to the population. This is an example of statistical inference. The objective of the case is to illustrate a simple exercise of inference. The data set, supplied in an Excel file (mwc-data.xls), contains the results of a customer service satis...Starting at €0.00
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Altair (B): Resolutely Headed Toward the Future
Martínez, Juan Carlos; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-148-EEntrepreneurshipJuan Carlos Martínez recalled 2009 as a nightmare. In 2002, together with four other partners, he had set up the strategic consulting firm Altair. From achieving record turnover in 2008, the company went into technical bankruptcy in December 2009, with losses of more than 350,000, few clients and in the final stages of a restructuring process that had left the team diminished and unmotivated - working practically without pay and hoping to see li...Starting at €5.74
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The Barcelona Mobile World Congress
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Güçlü, BurçinFocused Case ADFC-1-EDecision AnalysisPopulations are usually too big to be observed in their entirety. What we do, in practice, is to draw a sample from the population, perform our statistical analysis on the sample and extrapolate our results to the population. This is an example of statistical inference. The objective of the case is to illustrate a simple exercise of inference. The data set, supplied in an Excel file (mwc-data.xls), contains the results of a customer service satis...Starting at €8.20
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Altair (B): caminando decididamente hacia el futuro
Martínez, Juan Carlos; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-148EntrepreneurshipJuan Carlos recordaba el año 2009 como una pesadilla. En el año 2002 había empezado junto con otros cuatro socios la firma de consultoría estratégica Altair. De cifras record de facturación en el año 2008, estaban en diciembre del 2009 en quiebra técnica con pérdidas de más de 350,000 euros, con pocos clientes y terminando una reestructuración que había dejado el equipo menguado, desmotivado y trabajando prácticamente sin cobrar con la esperanza ...Starting at €5.74