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Family Protocol (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel Ángel; Ward, John L.Technical Note DGN-448-PBStrategyThe note includes three examples of protocol in family businesses, with explanations of the different types of relationships between managers, owners, and family members. It also includes a variety of ways of allocating power and property.Starting at €8.20
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Company Culture in a Family-owned Businesses (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelTechnical Note DGN-457-PBStrategyThis technical note is in four parts. The first section looks at the elements that make up the culture of a company, how culture is formed, transmitted and evolves. The second section discusses the differences between family and non-family businesses, and identifies the four generic types of family business. The third section delves into the causes of elements peculiar to the culture of family businesses. Finally, section four looks at specific e...Starting at €8.20
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Arce (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1361-PBStrategyArce is a family business founded in 1885, run by three brothers of the third generation and incorporating several members of the fourth generation. Of the three businesses that make up the company, one has been in losses for two years, and a consultancy has been hired to revitalize it; another has no growth, and the third is facing very strong new competition. At a meeting of the 22 members of the fourth generation, they ask themselves: do our b...Starting at €8.20
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Campus Cerdanya
Lucarini S.; Segarra, José AntonioCase M-1194-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementSandro Lucarini has just landed an administrative concession to build a sports and cultural residence in the Cerdanya. After leaving a brilliant career in consulting and spending a year and a half devising a business plan and negotiating with Town Hall, the time has come to take the plunge. The investments and how they will be financed, the choice of partners in the new company and the agreements for monitoring and revising the business model are...Starting at €8.20
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Governance in the Family Business: Map of Governance and "Roadmap"
Segurado, Juan Luis; Roure, JuanTechnical Note EN-14-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThe need for more effective management by the Board of Directors becomes more and more apparent as a family and its business develop and the level of complexity increases. The purpose of this document - based on direct experiences with the operations of Boards of Directors in family businesses and with high-performance teams - is to draw attention to the need to provide the Board with specific management processes in the interest of a more profes...Starting at €8.20
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Scrap It
James A. Erskine; Michael WienerCase IVEY-9B08C017-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementThe vice-president of operations at Lighting Group Corporation (LGC) was looking over some financial statements at the end of the workday. For the first time he could remember, there were no sales recorded on the daily sales statement. It appeared that the efforts of employees were diverted into a project related to the scrap metal that was a by-product of the manufacturing process. To complicate matters, the son of the company's president and ch...Starting at €8.20
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Constructors & Co. Chicago, USA (B) (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Rus, Salvador; Tàpies, JosepCase SM-1545-PPInnovation and Change, Service and Operations Management, StrategyConstructors & Co. is a construction company that has managed to establish itself in the market over the generations and has also been able to diversify. For three generations the company has been successful over the years. But in the transition from the third to the fourth generation, the company has been stagnant, without the ability to generate profits and without a clear succession plan for the leader. The shareholding of the company Construc...Starting at €5.74
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Appalachian Commercial Cleaners: Family Dynamics Versus The Business
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0126-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is appropriate for students interested in becoming entrepreneurs and growing a business. It presents the issue of what is best for a business and pressure from family members. A successful family business has a son-in-law who is an outstanding COO. But when the daughter of the CEO files for divorce, family members demand that the son-in-law be fired.Starting at €8.20
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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (A)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0123-EEntrepreneurshipThis case could be used in courses about entrepreneurship and managing small businesses. The founder and patriarch of a family business is confronted by his children regarding succession, equitable distribution of money from the business to nonworking family members, and nepotism. The transition from first- to second- and third-generation involvement creates major challenges to family harmony and the business beyond the life of the founding gener...Starting at €8.20
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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (B)
Hess, Edward D.Case DARDEN-ENT-0124-EEntrepreneurshipThis case is suitable for courses in entrepreneurship and managing small or family businesses. It follows ENT-0123, the (A) case, and raises further issues about family demands for larger dividends, family members investing in family businesses, whether family members should have a way to liquefy their family business stock, and whether in-laws should attend family business meetings.Starting at €5.74