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Falabella Colombia (A): construyendo un equipo gerencial
Mies, R.Case ESE-DP-C-ES-08-031ARicardo Hepp, Country Manager de Falabella Perú, recibe una oferta para montar las operaciones de Falabella en Colombia. El caso detalla el proceso de diseño y elección del equipo gerencial que lo acompañará en esta tarea.Starting at €8.20
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¿Intervenir o no intervenir? Esa es la pregunta
Simian, J.M.Case ESE-ECO-C-ES-11-122EconomicsLos primeros meses de 2008 no habían sido fáciles para los consejeros del Banco Central de Chile. La variación de IPC de marzo, publicada a comienzos de abril, alcanzó casi un 1%. Con esta cifra, la inflación estaba ya en 1.2% en los primeros tres meses del año y alcanzaba 8.5% en 12 meses, el nivel más alto desde comienzos de los noventa. El compromiso de la autoridad monetaria de mantener la inflación baja y estable, en un rango meta de entre 2...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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WholeMeaning Inc. - Making your Strategic Bet
CROUTHAMEL, MICHELLE; DIAZ-MOLINA, IVAN; Sorich, DavidCase ESE-ES-C-ES-20-363-EStrategyThe case describes a technology start-up and its difficulties to define a product and a successful business model. It describes the struggle the founders went through in trying to harness the unlimited applications of NLP into a specific product.Starting at €8.20
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Sunbeam Corporation: Board Member Assessing Earnings Quality (B)
McNichols, M; Callan, CCase SGSB-A189B-EAccounting and ControlIt was June 9, 1998, and Charles Elson, a law professor and Director on Sunbeam’s Board, had just left a distressing Elson and the other outside directors met with outside legal and public relations advisors on June 13, 1998. After discussion of the events, the outside directors voiced that they had lost faith in Dunlap. They contacted the other directors and then called Dunlap to tell him he was terminated. Because of his apparent failure in ...Starting at €5.74
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Sticks and Stones? How Companies Respond to "Tax Shaming"
DeSimone, L; Hoopes, H; Lester, R; Melvin, SCase SGSB-A226-EAccounting and ControlAn increasing number of global corporations have experienced negative publicity over complicated tax structures established to minimize their tax burdens. In the case of U.S. companies, there has been a growing outcry over “inversions,” a means of restructuring the business so that the U.S. parent was replaced by a foreign parent entity in a nation with lower corporate tax rates. Apple CEO Tim Cook was called to testify regarding Apple’s tax st...Starting at €8.20
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Etsy: Keeping it Real by Keeping Taxes Low
de, Simone, L; Hoopes, J; Lester, R; Melvin, SCase SGSB-A227-EAccounting and ControlEtsy was an online craft bazaar founded in 2005 in a loft in Brooklyn, New York. The company was known for its emphasis on social responsibility, transparency, authenticity, and its somewhat nontraditional approach to business. In January 2015, Etsy converted its Irish subsidiary to an unlimited liability company, a move it described as implementation of an “updated global corporate structure.” In a subsequent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis...Starting at €8.20
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Models of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Ellis, J; , Wismer, LCase SGSB-E365-EEntrepreneurshipAs he nears graduation from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Pat Smith is considering his career plans. He wants to be an entrepreneur, but he has no start-up idea of his own. He is interested in entrepreneurship through acquisition and, based on conversations with various entrepreneurs, is trying to decide which type of search fund is right for him: a traditional, or funded, search, a self-funded search, or a sponsored search. In ad...Starting at €8.20
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Bigpoint
Child, M; Chambers, J; Ellis, H; Han, ACase SGSB-E423-EEntrepreneurshipBigpoint was a leading online gaming company with vast international operations. One country that it wanted to enter was the United States, where existing players EA and Zynga, as well as dominant social gaming platforms and the Apple App Store posed considerable challenges. It also needed to restructure its top management to better manage its growth.Starting at €8.20
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Tiny Prints (A)
Child, M; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E426A-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Tiny Prints case describes the founding of the online stationery company in 2004, through its growth and evolution to 2007. The three cofounders bootstrapped the company from the beginning, primarily so that they could retain control over the decision-making and strategic direction of the company. While that decision allowed the cofounders flexibility and independence, it also led to capital constraints and a “good enough” culture that had ...Starting at €8.20