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Editorial Pirineos (A)
Soley, JorgeCase F-631-EFinanceThis case analyzes the companys different sources of short-term bank financing: discounts, credit lines and loans, and examines the use of suppliers as a source of financing as an alternative to bank financing. It additionally analyzes the advantages of centralizing treasury operations, and the use of e-banking (home-banking) as an instrument for improving treasury management. Finally, it gives an example of a bank-company balance sheet in ord...Starting at €8.20
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Editorial Pirineos (A)
Soley, JorgeCase F-631FinanceSe analizan las distintas fuentes de financiación bancarias a corto plazo que tiene la empresa: descuento, línea de crédito, prestamo. Se analiza la fuente de financiación de proveedores como alternativa a la financiación bancaria. Adicionalmente, se analizan las ventajas de la centralización de la tesorería y la utilización de la banca electrónica (home-banking) como instrumento para mejorar la gestión de tesorería. Finalmente, se muestra un eje...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo de Empresas Fortuny (E)
Álvarez, E.; Tàpies, JosepCase F-606FinanceExplica cómo acabaron los acontecimientos que se describen en los casos (A), (B) y (C).Starting at €5.74
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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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The E-Line Cityboard
Soler, Edi; Peñalva, FernandoCase C-784-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipSix months after incorporating the company, the two founders of the firm E-Line Cityboard Supply Ltd. (ELC) were preparing the first Board of Directors meeting. ELC was a London-based distributor and online retailer of the E-Line Cityboard, a portable and rechargeable battery-powered self-balancing wheeled board, commonly referred to in the market as a "hoverboard." Increased competition and legislation prohibiting the use of hoverboards in publi...Starting at €8.20
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E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health
Quelch, John A.; Rodriguez, MargaretCase HBS-514059-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance that teens would easily develop nicotine addictions from smoking the fruit-flavored products. Manufacturers a...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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Luis Arrese (E): Ana's Version
Gay, Francisco; Ribera, AlbertoCase DPO-811-ELeadership and People ManagementThree years after the facts related in the Fernando Ruiz (D) case, the author had the chance to tell Ana, Fernando's wife, about the comments heard on various occasions during its discussion in different training programs for directors, about the role she had played in these events and what could be learned from it if seen from her point of view. Ana agreed to give her version, which she expressed during several interviews. The text of the case i...Starting at €5.74
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Crescimento e Diversificação na Martifer
Caldart, Adrián A.Case AESE-DG-A-886-PPStrategyO caso descreve o rápido processo de crescimento e diversificação internacional do portfólio de negócios levado a cabo pela empresa de origem portuguesa, Martifer. A Martifer, inicialmente uma empresa líder na península ibérica no negócio de estructuras metálicas, em apenas quatro anos converteu-se num actor relevante no sector das energias renováveis, com significativos investimentos nos negócios de energia eólica, solar y nos biocombustíveis em...Starting at €8.20
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Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Gandhi, Vikram; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-318001-EFinanceIt is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K. company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally-friendly process. The end product looked, smelled and felt like natural leather. Scalable marketplace adoption of E-Leather's products looked promising, but was just that-promising. And t...Starting at €8.20