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ISS Spain. The Integration Machine (A)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-126-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementISS Spain Country Manager Joaquim Borràs was preparing a meeting with other ISS Country Managers in which he was invited to share with them his experiences on acquisitions and integrations along the already ten years he had been in this position. Going over the firm's history, he decided to dwell on two key points: the first acquisitions which led to the constitution of ISS Spain, and the the year 2004. From 1999 to 2004, the subsidiary had gone ...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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Eye Care (E): A Second Assesment
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-205-ELeadership and People ManagementIn February, as usual, Alejandro had his 2009 Global Perfomance and Development meeting with his superior, Tiago de Vasconcelos. His results had been very good: sales growth was 12.5%, reaching 100.3% of budgeted sales, above 98.1% of the business unit. In the new refractive line he had achieved 98%, compared to the average of 87%. Alejandro declared that communication had improved significantly, but even so he was nervous about his meetings with...Starting at €5.74
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La Masia, a School of Talent (Chinese Version)
Lleó, Borja; Cardona Soriano, PabloCase DPO-216-ZHLeadership and People ManagementFrom the moment the young hopefuls of FC Barcelona's youth program set foot in La Masia, a team of professionals oversees their all-round education on a day-to-day basis. The Barça model takes three key aspects - physical-sporting, intellectual, and moral - into account in order to turn the 10 or 11-year-olds who come to Barça's soccer academy into excellent footballers and excellent human beings. In barely 30 years, La Masia has become the world...Starting at €8.20
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La Masia, a School of Talent
Lleó, Borja; Cardona Soriano, PabloCase DPO-216-ELeadership and People ManagementFrom the moment the young hopefuls of FC Barcelona's youth program set foot in La Masia, a team of professionals oversees their all-round education on a day-to-day basis. The Barça model takes three key aspects - physical-sporting, intellectual, and moral - into account in order to turn the 10 or 11-year-olds who come to Barça's soccer academy into excellent footballers and excellent human beings. In barely 30 years, La Masia has become the world...Starting at €8.20
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Failure Chronicles
Rauch, Doug; Rottenberg, Linda; Tjan, Anthony K.; McNamee, Roger; Pacelle, Wayne; Guber, Peter; Johnson, Whitney; Strubler, DaveArticle HBS-R1104J-ESeven CEOs, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists tell stories of personal failures-and what they learned from them. Doug Rauch, a former president of Trader Joe's, admits to being a "control-aholic" and recounts how his micromanagement hindered the chain's East Coast expansion. Linda Rottenberg talks about her mantra, "Go big, or go home," and how she made the call to close her business in India. Anthony Tjan describes the ups and downs of his ...Starting at €8.20
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Teaching Excellence: Reflecting on What Makes Great Professors Great
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-PHA-0063-ELeadership and People ManagementThis short case presents two typical conversations surrounding the issue of classroom teaching excellence. One conversation is from a student perspective, and the other is from a faculty perspective. Both conversations take the reader to the point of articulating, based on their own college experience, the attributes possessed by the great professors they have had in class or that they have observed.Starting at €8.20
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Assistant Professor Gyan Gupta and the Wet Noodle Class (A)
Leonard, Dorothy; Harmeling, Susan S.Case HBS-912405-EProfessor Gupta faces three major problems in teaching cases: 1) his students, accustomed to lectures, don't know how to conduct a case discussion; 2) the students are using the Internet to discover the outcome of managerial dilemmas posed in the case; 3) he wants to share the theory he learned as a doctoral student, but can't figure out the appropriate way to integrate theory into the case-based discussion. He seeks advice, particularly about th...Starting at €8.20
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Linear Programming Basics
Martínez de Albéniz, VictorTechnical Note PN-477-EKnowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementLinear programming (LP) is a mathematical optimization tool that can help managers plan and execute operations more efficiently through a better use of resources. The range of problems that can be treated with LP is wide. This note reviews the basics of the technique, explains how to use it with a spreadsheet solver and discusses two typical cases where it is useful.Starting at €8.20
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Get Ready for Your Next Assignment
Milway, Katie Smith; Gregory, Ann Goggins; Davis-Peccoud, Jenny; Yazbak, KathleenArticle HBS-R1112K-EYour next internal assignment is your next chance to create results--for your organization and for your career--and a smart investment of time and effort up front can mark the difference between getting by and truly excelling. A key factor in your transition will be knowledge--not only substantive information about the project or field, but an understanding of how others inside and outside the organization have tackled similar assignments, what c...Starting at €8.20