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Soluziona: The Success of Entrepreneurial Initiative
Fité, Rosa María; Nueno, PedroCase E-71-EEntrepreneurshipSoluziona was a consulting company belonging to the Unión Fenosa group; it had been formed from the merger of Unión Fenosa's service companies. With more than 8,000 employees, Soluziona was present in 28 countries on four continents. The crisis of 2002 had slowed its growth, but it had managed to remain profitable thanks to a cost optimization plan. During this same period, it had embarked on a business integration plan. The case is set in July 2...Starting at €8.20
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The Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn Fellowship: CSR as Cultural Exchange
Ganly, Kate; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1491-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Reinhard Mohn Fellowship is an initiative of Bertelsmann AG. It reflects Bertelsmann's ongoing commitment to fostering social, cultural and individual development by aiming to reward and sponsor people with leadership qualities who have demonstrated enterprise, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. It provides for up to five social entrepreneurs from all over the world to be selected from a group of applicants to undertake a one year program...Starting at €8.20
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The Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn Fellowship: CSR as Cultural Exchange - Teaching Note
Ganly, Kate; Mair, JohannaTeaching Note DGT-55-ELeadership and People ManagementNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case DG-1491-E: The Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn Fellowship: CSR as Cultural Exchange.Starting at €0.00
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Bertelsmann Foundation: Doing Good and Doing Well
Neumann, Frederic A.; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1513-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThe Bertelsmann Stiftung (BST), governing body of Bertelsmann AG (BAG), the media conglomerate, and in 2005 the 4th largest foundation by project expenditure in Germany, was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn, the 5th generation entrepreneur who re-built Bertelsmann after World War II. This private operating foundation has built tremendous influence as "reform engine" up to the highest circles of political and economic life in Germany and beyond. I...Starting at €8.20
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Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund
Johnson, RobCase E-115-EFinanceThe case describes the formation and development of a private equity firm investing in Latin America.Starting at €8.20
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elBulli's Magic Recipe
Prats, Mª Julia; Quintanilla, Javier; Mitchell, JordanCase E-116-EEntrepreneurshipEarly in 2008, Juli Soler and Ferran Adrià, co-owners of one of the world's most renowned restaurants, elBulli, located at Cala Montjoi outside Roses on Spain's Costa Brava, were weeks away from opening for another season. As usual, the reservation lines had been inundated immediately for the 2008 season. Each year, elBulli served 8,000 people from nearly one million reservation requests. How could you explain such unassailable demand? Perhaps th...Starting at €8.20
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ISS Spain. The Integration Machine (B)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-133-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementISS Spain Country Manager Joaquim Borràs remembered how the ISS Spain team decided in 2004 to buy the cleaning company UNICA, as well as Alitecnic, which operated in the service areas of pest control and environmental hygiene. From 1999 to 2004, the subsidiary had gone from 1 to 9,160 employees, through 18 acquisitions. The company had a 7% organic growth and 132M revenue and it was strongly positioned in Spanish Levante, East, North and The Ba...Starting at €5.74
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EKM Group Human Capital
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-111-EEntrepreneurshipAs Jaume Sanabras left a regular meeting of the Carlemany Forum, of which he was chairman, he shared with Eric Paredes, an entrepreneur and a great personal friend, the highlights of its development. In eleven years and starting from scratch, he and his team had managed to build a company with 100 employees invoicing 30 million euros, always faithful to a unique philosophy. But faced with what appeared to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he p...Starting at €8.20
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Atam: Innovating in the Social Sector (A)
Elvira, Marta; Prats, Mª Julia; Plaza López, LuisCase DPO-244-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeAtam is an association of Grupo Telefónica, which was founded in 1973 with the aim of providing assistance for the disabled and elderly dependents. It was the result of an agreement between the company and its labor unions. It is a nonprofit, national organization, declared to be serving the public interest, and has 60,000 members belonging to 28 companies of the group. Atam has three major areas of action: individual financial support, direct-ca...Starting at €8.20
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Jesús de Benito at S&P (A)
Stein, Guido; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosCase ASN-53-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipIn November 1999, after years of hard work, Jesús de Benito, owner and CEO of S&P, a company that implemented SAP and other IT services, saw an opportunity to turn the company he had created into a large sum of money.Starting at €8.20