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Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness, Teaching Note
Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge; Porter, Michael E.Teaching Note HBS-711481-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 710417.Starting at €0.00
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Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness
Porter, Michael E.; Ramirez-Vallejo, JorgeCase HBS-710417-EEconomicsThe case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizations for competitiveness.Starting at €8.20
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Asociación Colombiana de Industrias Plásticas (Acoplasticos) (Spanish Version)
Porter, Michael E.; Emmons, Willis M.Case HBS-705S10StrategyACOPLASTICOS se estableció en 1961 como un grupo de presión para los principales plásticos de Colombia las empresas de fabricación. En la década de 1980, la organización cambió su enfoque hacia la mejora de la productividad de los plásticos de Colombia y clúster de goma, que también incluían cierto petroquímica, fibras sintéticas o artificiales, la pintura, y las industrias de tinta. Con el tiempo, las actividades de la organización se ampliaron ...Starting at €8.20
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Carulla & Cía, S.A.
Barrero, F.; Gómez G.; Santomá, JavierCase F-654FinanceLa mayor empresa de distribución alimentaria de Colombia, se plantea la política financiera necesaria para financiar el crecimiento de la empresa en los próximos años. Ante un entorno económico de altos tipos de interés, mercados de financiación pequeños y una competencia creciente Carulla se plantea la alternativa de una ampliación de capital distribuida e el extranjero, especialmente EEUU vía ADR½s. El caso permite discutir las ventajas e incon...Starting at €8.20
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Metaza: Implementing Corporate Governance in a Family Business
Gonzalo Gomez Betancourt; José Luis Rivas; Pedro VazquezCase IVEY-W34069-EDecision Analysis, StrategyMetaza SA (Metaza) was a family business created by two brothers who later invited their younger siblings to join the firm. Metaza operated in the steel sector, a capital-intensive business with fierce competition. The industry had experienced several mergers and acquisitions led by international players. To remain competitive, Metaza had changed its strategy, moving away from being a steel dealer and toward being a value-added producer. However,...Starting at €8.20
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Colombina S.A.: Entering the Ice Cream Market
Enrique Ramirez; Juanita Cajiao SaenzCase IVEY-9B18A008-EMarketing, StrategyIn March 2017, the vice-president of the ice cream division at Colombina S.A. (Colombina), was in her office at the company’s headquarters in Cali, Colombia. She was reviewing the growth figures for the company’s ice cream business, for which she was accountable. The sales target set for the company in 2010 was US$1 billion by 2020, and the ice cream segment would play a fundamental role in reaching that target. The vice-president remembered what...Starting at €8.20
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Magic Markers (A): Growing a Whiteboard Animation Company
Liliana Lopez Jimenez; Matthias A. TietzCase IVEY-9B18M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2013, two entrepreneurs founded Magic Markers, a whiteboard animation company in Bogotá, Colombia, with the mission of gracefully explaining complex issues to interested audiences. The (A) case describes how the company experienced unanticipated growth after one of its videos went viral. The two founders faced several challenges and needed to quickly learn how to manage their growing business. Human resources issues proved to be particularly t...Starting at €8.20
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How to Tackle a Strategy Case
Cara C. MaurerTechnical Note IVEY-9B21M040-EStrategyThis short technical note offers a multi-step process for how to analyze a strategy case. The technical note makes reference to frameworks and tools found in the following strategy textbook: Mary M. Crossan, Cara C. Maurer, W. Glenn Rowe, and Michael J. Rouse, Strategic Analysis and Action, 10th ed. (Toronto, ON: Pearson Publishing, 2021) [forthcoming]. This note explains that cases have no single correct answer and that if the analysis has no te...Starting at €8.20
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Hospital management and labor dispute: The case of the San Juan de Dios Hospital
Gallardo H. M.; González I. D.; García Prat, AntoniCase P-1027-EService and Operations ManagementThe Hospital Rionegro in Antioquia, Colombia, had been in a very difficult situation due to financial and labor difficulties. After five years of integrative management and negotiations with the different fronts, including labor aspects, the situation had been reversed. The productivity could be increased and labor conditions stabilized to the benefit of the hospital and its workforce. For the Ministry to exert primarily a stewardship function, i...Starting at €8.20
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Bitaco Tea: A Taste of a Better World
Juanita CajiaoCase IVEY-W27301-EMarketing, StrategyAgricola Himalaya was a family-owned Colombian company, the national leader in the tea industry, and the owner of the only tea plantation in the country, located in the middle of a mist forest. In Colombia, owing to the labour costs involved in tea production, importing tea was less expensive than producing it locally, but if Agricola Himalaya decided to import the tea, what would be the environmental and social impact of closing the plant and pl...Starting at €8.20