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Conchi Martín: buscando trabajo (B)
Melé, DomènecCase BE-182Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementPoco tiempo después, Conchi recibió una oferta de una empresa farmacéutica como adjunta al director financiero, con funciones de control. Conchi apenas tenía dudas sobre el puesto tras las explicaciones recibidas y pensaba que, ahora sí, había encontrado el trabajo adecuado. En el momento final de la entrevista aprovechó para preguntar si se trataba de un puesto de nueva creación. Le respondieron que no, pero que les costaba encontrar a la person...Starting at €5.74
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Conchi Martín: Looking for a Job (B)
Melé, DomènecCase BE-182-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementA short time later, Conchi received an offer from a pharmaceutical company to take over as the assistant to the finance director, with control duties. Conchi had hardly any doubts about the position after the explanations she received, and she believed that she had finally found the right job. At the end of the interview, she took the opportunity to ask whether it was a newly created position. They said it was not, but that they had experienced s...Starting at €5.74
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What Does It Mean Being a Decent Boss (A)
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-189-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and CommunicationThis case analyzes a pre-crisis situation experienced by René Obermann, while he was serving as CEO of Deutsche Telekom. He received a letter from a technician, who complained about the top management style being focused on short-term results instead of on the company's long-term stability.Starting at €8.20
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What Does It Mean Being a Decent Boss (B)
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-190-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn March 2007, less than one year after his appointment as CEO, René Obermann received an e-mail from a 48-year old technician working in the T-Com Berlin department. The letter was carbon copied to some members of the Board of Management, union representatives and some other employees. It rapidly spread throughout the organization and become viral in Germany. The following is an extract of the letter: Your continuous messages to the workforce wi...Starting at €5.74
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Las colectas del banco de sangre de Tuixén
Ligero M.; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase AD-182EconomicsSe describe el procedimiento de colecta y recogida de sangre de un banco de sangre con los costes asociados. Se plantea la problemática de potenciar la recogida en el propio centro versus colectas mediante camión.Starting at €8.20
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Being Early Beats Being Better
Greve, Henrich R.; Seidel, Marc-David L.Article HBS-F1406D-EStrategyResearch on product adoption in the airline industry suggests that being first to market can make a big difference to an offering's success, even if the customers are companies rather than consumers.Starting at €8.20
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Sistemas de costes basados en la actividad
Davila, Antonio; Fernández, Albert; Velilla, ManuelTechnical Note CN-182Accounting and ControlSe describe el modelo conceptual de los sistemas de costes basados en la actividad (Activity Based Costing) y los compara con los sistemas de costes convencionales, haciendo especial énfasis en las nuevas ideas aportadas por el sistema ABC.Starting at €8.20
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Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud
Sieber, Sandra; Zamora, Javier; Sek, Tomasz; Goetschi, BeatCase SI-182-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final testing of his New York-based IT start-up company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date of this innovative photo crowdsourcing service commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client, the newspaper the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed that the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realize...Starting at €8.20
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Única Group: ¿cómo diferenciarse y crear valor en un entorno más complejo? Nota del Instructor
Villafuerte Martín, A.Teaching Note IIST-MITN-182MarketingÚnica Group es una de las cooperativas lideres españolas del sector hortofrutícola. En enero de 2019, el sector se enfrentaba a una aguda crisis de precios. En este contexto, la dirección general de Única se planteaba cómo conseguir llegar a ser percibidos como diferentes tanto por parte de los clientes y consumidores como de los socios, desarrollando en ellos una preferencia por Única. Asimismo, se planteaba cómo impulsar la integración de nueva...Starting at €0.00
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The Economics of Well-Being
Fox, JustinArticle HBS-R1201D-EGross domestic product has long been the chief measure of national success. But there's been a lot of talk lately about changing that, from economists and world leaders alike. GDP is under siege for three main reasons. First, it is flawed even on its own terms: It misses lots of economic activity (unpaid household work, for example) and, as a single-number representation of vast, complex systems, is inevitably skewed. Second, it fails to account ...Starting at €8.20