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The EMBI Investor
Ariño, Miguel Angel; Canela, Miguel Ángel; Gorecka-Pietrucha, JustynaFocused Case ADFC-2-EDecision Analysis, FinanceThe EMBI Investor case is a practical application of statistical analysis in financial analysis. It uses the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to introduce some basic aspects of statistics and finance and presents how these two aspects, the financial and the statistical, can be connected. This fosters interest in statistical tools through their use in financial analysis. The objectives of the case are: (a) to introduce the concepts of the regres...Starting at €8.20
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Kapoor's Portfolio
Canela, Miguel Ángel; Alegre, Inés; Moleskis, MelinaFocused Case ADFC-5-EDecision AnalysisThe case follows a trainee portfolio manager in her attempt to build an investment portfolio using stocks on India's National Stock Exchange (NSE). Within the framework of the capital asset pricing model, this note focuses on the computation of financial returns, risk and diversification strategies.Starting at €8.20
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Argo Interactive (A): Surviving in the Roller-Coasting Mobile Industry: A struggling mobile software provider must decide whether to retreat, refocus, or rebrand
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-1-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis after their market did not pick up. The company Argo Interactive focused, with their innovative software product, on the newly emerging WAP-market. However, after burning through 14 million pound sterling of venture capital, the market had still not shown any signs of life, and the senior management team needed to make an urgent...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm: The challenges of bringing an innovative device technology to market
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a CEO who took over a spin-off from a research institute, became the new firm's employee #1 and tried to turn this lab idea into a prototype, then get it ready for industrialization, and finally sell it to a very demanding client, while facing some significant crises on this way. Beside the challenge of getting the product (an integrated hearing protection and communication device) working and a painful failure with a cont...Starting at €8.20
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JacobsRimell (A): Leading out of Bankruptcy: A CEO takes on the role of "bad cop" to save a failing UK software company
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-8-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis. The company offered a technology related to the management of broadband access, VoIP and digital television (DTV) services to large TelCos and cable providers, but is on the verge of bankruptcy after they have unexpectedly lost two large contracts within a very short time. The VC firm is bringing in a new (first-time) CEO in ord...Starting at €8.20
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JacobsRimell (B): A One-Shot Bet Pays Off: Decisions & Consequences
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-9-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case B about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "JacobsRimell (A): Leading out of Bankruptcy". This second part illustrated the decisions the firm took during and after the crisis (caused by having unexpectedly lost two large contracts within a very short time) with regard to financing, market focu...Starting at €8.20
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Forbind Systems (A): Crisis Management From Day 1...: A newly hired first-time CEO has to navigate his firm through a severe crisis
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-10-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis Focus Case is about a young Danish VC-backed technology company in the supply-chain software sector. To his own surprise, Jacob "just hired as the new VP Sales" was unexpectedly made CEO of the company by the VCs. Beside the personal challenge, he quickly realized significant problems in the company. The current contracts in place were not optimal for the firm, the business model seemed wrong, and internationalization was an important issue....Starting at €8.20
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The Jia Wu Expansion
Alegre, Inés; Canela, Miguel ÁngelFocused Case ADFC-3-EDecision Analysis, MarketingSales forecasting is needed for planning. This case describes a situation in which monthly sales forecasts can be produced using very elementary methods. The case may be used as an introduction to this topic. Ideally, it should be followed by other cases in which more advanced methods should be employed. The objective of the case is to illustrate a simple forecasting method for monthly sales data. The data set, supplied in an Excel file (jiawu-a...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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San Francisco: Real Estate Valuation
Ibarra, Alberto; Alegre, Inés; Moleskis, MelinaFocused Case ADFC-6-EDecision AnalysisAn MBA has to help a friend indentify real estate properties that could be a good investment for medium or long term returns. The MBA has access to properties listings and that can be included in a regression model to predict pricing and when compared versus listed prices, allow the identification of investment opportunities.Starting at €8.20