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Con Roux Construction (Pty) Ltd. (A)
Ferreira, Anton; Miller, PaddyCase DG-990Leadership and People ManagementCon Roux Construction cubre un período de cuatro años (1987-1991), en los cuales la empresa pasa por un cambio de dirección, introduce diferentes y radicales sistemas de dirección y, en el proceso, el National Productivity Institute of South Africa le otorga una medalla de oro. El problema que afronta la nueva dirección es cómo sostener este proceso en los años noventa, mientras se trata de sobrevivir en un mercado que declina.Starting at €8.20
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Transformación de Genor: La época de Keys
Ferreira, Anton; Miller, PaddyCase DG-1247Leadership and People ManagementThe case is part of a two case series dealing with the unbundling or breakup of the South African conglomerate Gencor. This first case details the preparation of the organisation, the nurturing phase, before the CEO Derek Keys starts with the breaking up of the business. The internal environment of the organisation before Keys' arrival is discussed - the inability of the main board members to resolve strategic issues and the consequences for the ...Starting at €8.20
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Gencor transformed: The keys era
Ferreira, Anton; Miller, PaddyCase DG-1247-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (B)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1425-EStrategyCase B describes how HLL created a brand new business model to compete in the BOP market and the outstanding results it obtained. It concludes by posing the following questions: Are these growth rates sustainable? And if they are, can they be replicated with Unilever's Multi-local, Multi-national approach?Starting at €5.74
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (C)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1426-EStrategyCase C ends the case series with information on how Unilever approached BOP markets in Indonesia and Brazil and broadens the question further to ask: How can Unilever benefit from the lessons learned at HLL? Has Hindustan Lever found a new strategy to gain larger markets globally in its quest to meet the everyday needs of everyday people everywhere? Or had it merely found a way to push out a young competitive upstart in India without there being ...Starting at €5.74
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Masao Ogura's Haulage Revolution: Home Delivery Service (Takkyubin)
Sáez, Francisco J.; Riquelme, Hernán; Kase, KimioCase DG-1484-EStrategyThe case describes the thought and change process of an entrepreneur who revolutionsed the haulage industry in Japan. Along with other three cases this serves to identify the mental schemata of business leaders. In Mr Ogura's case his metal scheme is classified as Proto-Image of the Firm (PIF) approach.Starting at €8.20
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Con Roux Construction (Pty) Ltd. (A)
Ferreira, Anton; Miller, PaddyCase DG-990-ELeadership and People ManagementCon Roux Construction covers a period of 4 years, 1987-1991 in which the company undergoes a change of management, introduces radically different management systems and, in the process, is awarded a gold medal from the National Productivity Institute of South Africa. The issue that faces the new management is how to sustain this process into the 90s while trying to survive in a declining market.Starting at €8.20
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Norio Ohga: The Fifth President of Sony Corporation
Sáez, Francisco J.; Riquelme, Hernán; Kase, KimioCase DG-1481-EStrategyThe case analyses the conceptual scheme or model identified in Norio Ohga's management style, which we call the proto-image of the firm (PIF) approach. Sony's success in its diversification strategy is explained on the basis of PIF.Starting at €8.20
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Chihiro Kanagawa, President of Shin-Etsu Chemical
Sáez, Francisco J.; Riquelme, Hernán; Kase, KimioCase DG-1483-EStrategyThis case examines the professional career of Chihiro Kanagawa, and shows how he turned Shin-Etsu Chemicals into a major international player in a sector in which Japanese companies had traditionally been uncompetitive. The case illustrates Kanagawa's dynamic management style and the value system on which it is based and we call the profit- arithmetic (PA) approach. Shin-Etsu Chemical's success by not spending money on projects not generating imm...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424-EStrategyThis case series deals with the pioneering experience of Unilever at the "base of the pyramid" (BOP). The BOP consists of those 4 billion people excluded from the market economy and living in poverty. The BOP is a new management concept that conveys the promise to fulfill a twofold objective: promote social development and allow companies to regain double digit growth rates. For almost 100 years, Hindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever, h...Starting at €8.20