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The Toliza Museum of Art
Bilmes, LindaCase HBS-KS1124-EAccounting and ControlJuan Antonio Jimenez is the new Executive Director of the Toliza Museum of Art located in Spain. Jimenez is concerned that the museum lost money in 2008 and wants to understand what the financial results for the current year (2009) are likely to be. The museum has an extensive collection of contemporary and classical art which are shown as Regular Exhibits. The museum also hosts travelling Special Exhibits made up of items loaned by other galleri...Starting at €8.20
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L'Atelier Art Lounge: Times of Uncertainty
Randa Salamoun; Bettina BastianCase IVEY-9B14M139-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn January 31, 2014, the founder and chief executive officer of L’Atelier Art Lounge, an art workshop with branches in Bahrain and Lebanon, faces numerous challenges: not only whether to grow the business but how to achieve a reasonable work-life balance. Political instability associated with the Arab Spring led her to close one of her shops in Bahrain, but she went ahead with opening a second in Beirut where there are few leisure activities avai...Starting at €8.20
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Random House: Shifting to E-Books in a Globalized World
Sarah Bickert; Volker Diestegge; Thorsten Knauer; Katja Möslang; Andrea Schroer; Friedrich SommerCase IVEY-9B13M083-EStrategyThe publisher Random House, a fully owned subsidiary of the German family company Bertelsmann SE & Co. KgaA, faces significant changes in its markets and internal structure. While printed books have been the company’s core competence from its earliest years, with the advent of the Internet, customers, especially in the West, are beginning to prefer electronic books. Will printed books be completely replaced by digital ones, or will e-books remain...Starting at €8.20
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Healy Hudson: e-Sourcing Solutions
Sachon, MarcCase P-1019-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementBased in Munich, Bavaria, the company is a pioneer in the world of e-procurement. It has developed an online purchasing system for the Business-to-Business sector. In the fall of 2000 it is selling two e-commerce products: Impact Ordering and Impact Sourcing. The former is a simple electronic catalog ordering system; the latter is designed for the sourcing of complex goods.Starting at €8.20
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Healy Hudson: e-Sourcing Solutions (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Sachon, MarcCase P-1019-PBInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementBased in Munich, Bavaria, the company is a pioneer in the world of e-procurement. It has developed an online purchasing system for the Business-to-Business sector. In the fall of 2000 it is selling two e-commerce products: Impact Ordering and Impact Sourcing. The former is a simple electronic catalog ordering system; the latter is designed for the sourcing of complex goods.Starting at €8.20
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Telefónica en Alemania (B). La compra de E-Plus
Lucas Chinchilla, Pablo, García de Castro, Antonio.,Lucas Tomás, Jose LuisCase IIST-DGI-253StrategyTras la salida a Bolsa de Telefónica Alemania en 2012, la compañía inició su andadura como una compañía cotizada. Poco tiempo después Telefónica Alemania anunciaba el acuerdo para adquirir E-Plus, la filial alemana de la compañía de telecomunicaciones holandesa KPN, con el objetivo de crear la principal compañía de telecomunicaciones del país. E-Plus era la mayor filial extranjera de KPN y el tercer operador de telefonía móvil en Alemania. ...Starting at €5.74
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Discovering What Makes Your Employees Tick
Sanchez-Runde, Carlos J.; Steers, Richard M.Article ART-1786-ELeadership and People ManagementThe temptation to employ managerial best practices in global organizations tends to disregard a vital component of sound management and outstanding employee productivity: the influence of culture. Research on work motivation, personal work values and job attitudes rarely takes cultural differences into account. Yet evidence exists to show that culture does play a substantial role in understanding worker behavior and satisfaction, not to mention c...Starting at €8.20
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Rescate en el Egeo
IESE InsightArticle ART-2852Service and Operations ManagementDesde que Óscar Camps llegó a la isla de Lesbos, ha asistido a miles de refugiados con el equipo de socorristas de Proactiva Open Arms. A pesar de los obstáculos de todo tipo, ha conseguido su objetivo: hacer un poco más segura la travesía de los migrantes en el Mediterráneo. Su caso muestra algunas claves para llevar un proyecto a buen puerto.Starting at €8.20
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Cómo atraer ideas al núcleo del negocio
Krawchuk, FredArticle ART-2792Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEl entorno de negocio actual es volátil, incierto, complejo y ambiguo. Ante semejante panorama, los líderes empresariales han de mejorar su capacidad de percepción y respuesta. En concreto, deben adoptar una postura integradora y equilibrar los intereses tanto del "núcleo" como de la "periferia" del negocio, lo que exige resolver las tensiones que se dan entre ideas opuestas y valerse de ellas para innovar. A partir de casos prácticos, investigac...Starting at €8.20
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El grifo de la innovación
IESE InsightArticle ART-2795Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Change¿Por qué algunas innovaciones cuajan y otras no? En 1979, por ejemplo, Sony revolucionó nuestra manera de escuchar música con el Walkman. No solo nos permitió llevarla a todas partes, también creó una categoría de producto completamente nueva que allanó el camino para futuros dispositivos como el iPod. Comparémoslo con Vista, el sistema operativo que Microsoft lanzó en 2007. Tras advertir problemas de rendimiento y pocas ventajas, la legión de cl...Starting at €8.20