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RMS Teleinformatics' CEO - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: When the Interest of Shareholders and the Company Are at Odds
Moszoro, Marian; Jamro, KonradCase E-140-ECorporate GovernanceRMS Teleinformatics is a high-tech, privately owned company which has been active in the Polish market for 18 years, with over 40 million EUR of revenue. Its CEO wants to grow the company and ensure a better future. He therefore negotiates an investment from a private equity fund (PE). However, the owner of the company and the main shareholder (98% of shares) are against PE, because, according to the five-year projections, the company will be bet...Starting at €8.20
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Pravost Consulting Services
Wasynczuk, Andrew; Chang, Tiffany Y.Case HBS-918033-ELeadership and People ManagementPravost Consulting Services considers a division manager's response to the stringent demands of his boss who lambasts him for the division's weak performance. Six months earlier Jakub Kowalski, CEO of Pravost, promoted Viktor Novak to head up the faltering Pravost Consulting Services (PCS). For the most recent two quarters, however, PCS proved to be unfertile ground for Novak who failed to reach Kowalski's (or his own) goals for the division. Kow...Starting at €8.20
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Tequila Mobile SA
Halaburda, Hanna; Surma, Jerzy; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-712453-EStrategyWojciech Woziwodzki, co-founder, president, and CEO of Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile games developer, publisher, and service provider, had to make some important strategic decisions. Tequila Mobile SA had already decided to shift to a new "free2play" revenue model but needed to decide whether to focus on building its business in markets where penetration of smartphone devices was high and the economy was developed or in markets where the use of mob...Starting at €8.20
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Forta Furniture: International Expansion
Quelch, John A.; Easwar, KarthikCase HBS-918547-EMarketingThe Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings. In addition, the case suggests there are many routes to global expansion; a firm could look to build a brand in these new markets or compete as a private label. Further, the case add...Starting at €8.20
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African Tiger (A)
Rajinder RainaCase IVEY-9B10M009-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - This case series won top prize in the 2010 Association of African Business Schools (AABS)/EMERALD case competition. In early 2005, South African company Tiger Wheels Limited (Tiger) had established a global footprint in the manufacture of aluminum alloy wheels with customers comprising several high-end automotive producers. It was the 10th largest alloy wheel company in the world with a solid balance sheet and net current ass...Starting at €8.20
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Infusion's Greenfield Subsidiary in Poland
Christopher Williams; Wendelien van Eerde; Danielle TheCase IVEY-9B12M076-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe president of Infusion Development Corporation was reviewing the progress of the new subsidiary the company had set up 15 months earlier in Krakow, Poland. The purpose of the subsidiary was to work with other Infusion offices around the world to provide innovative software development services to global clients. The investment, a big success, had grown in size from eight to forty staff in one year, and there were plans to double that by the en...Starting at €8.20
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LPP Reserved: Growth Strategies of a Fashion Retailer in Central and Eastern Europe
Renart, Lluís G.Case M-1213-ECorporate GovernanceIn 1989 two Polish entrepreneurs set up a company to import clothing. From 1999 they began to open their own retail stores. In 2001 the company went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. By 2007 it had three fashion retail chains with a total of 345 stores, a turnover of nearly ¿400m and profits of about ¿40m. In March 2008 the management was looking at the issue of how to continue growing, and in particular whether or not to buy another Polish fa...Starting at €8.20
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Phenicoptere: Taking GLOV Global
Aleksandra WasowskaCase IVEY-9B18M168-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn September 15, 2014, the chief executive officer and the vice-president of the start-up Phenicoptere Ltd. were heading home to Poland. They were returning from a meeting with Armelle S.A. in Marseille, France about selling their innovative product—a makeup-removal glove called GLOV, in Armelle S.A.’s global retail chain. “Isn’t it exciting?” asked the chief executive officer, how often does such a small firm get a chance to talk to the buyers o...Starting at €8.20
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African Tiger (B)
Rajinder RainaCase IVEY-9B10M010-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - This case series won top prize in the 2010 Association of African Business Schools (AABS)/EMERALD case competition. In January 2007, Tiger Wheels (Tiger) and ATS informed its lead banker in Germany that it was forecasting a breach of its covenants, just 18 months after acquiring the Kentucky wheel plant. This was a critical matter and, as a result, the top management at Tiger was intimately involved in the deliberations. ATS ...Starting at €5.74
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International Expansion
Quelch, John A.; Easwar, KarthikCase HBS-919S06MarketingThe Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings. In addition, the case suggests there are many routes to global expansion; a firm could look to build a brand in these new markets or compete as a private label. Further, the case add...Starting at €8.20