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Office Depot E-Business (Abridged)
Venkataraman, S.; Bodily, Samuel E.; Cross, Tom; Chatterjee, SayanCase DARDEN-BP-0524-ECorporate GovernanceThis case is an excellent illustration of offline/online integration. Office Depot used its supply chain, systems integration, and existing offline channel strengths to overcome competitive online threats from pure Internet players and other office-products-category players. Students get to consider the critical strategic options for overall strategy, pricing, product line, promotion, and business integration.Starting at €8.20
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Icelandair (E): COVID-19
Mitchell, Jordan; Sigurjonsson, Throstur Olaf; Berrone, PascualCase SM-1703-ECorporate Governance, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis five-part case series considers Icelandair at a couple of key inflection points in its recent history. Case A, set in early 2017 on the airline's 80th anniversary, the airline is faced to question its strategy after its impressive seven-year run of dynamic growth and solid returns comes to a somewhat abrupt end due to extreme pricing competition and upward cost pressure. The case delves into the development of the airline and its "hybrid" bu...Starting at €5.74
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Icelandair (A, B, C, D y E) - Teaching Note
Mitchell, Jordan; Sigurjonsson, Throstur Olaf; Berrone, PascualTeaching Note SMT-132-ECorporate Governance, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis five-part case series considers Icelandair at a couple of key inflection points in its recent history. Case A, set in early 2017 on the airline's 80th anniversary, the airline is faced to question its strategy after its impressive seven-year run of dynamic growth and solid returns comes to a somewhat abrupt end due to extreme pricing competition and upward cost pressure. The case delves into the development of the airline and its "hybrid" bu...Starting at €0.00
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Religion and education clash at Hamline University (B)
de la Cierva, Yago;Case DPO-841-ECorporate Governance, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementIn October 2022, during an art history class at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota (United States), a professor showed a 16th-century Persian illustration depicting the Prophet Muhammad. One of the students in the course, who was the president of the campus Muslim Student Association, was offended and protested. This case study encompasses the evolution of the complaint, the rectorate's decisions on the matter, and the reactions of various...Starting at €5.74
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Dia's "D-Day" - Leadership Lessons in a Corporate Crisis (A)
de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-797-ECorporate GovernanceDia, the fourth largest retailer in Spain, faced a triple crisis in 2019: first, financial, due to the decline of its business in Spain and exchange rate changes that affected its subsidiaries in Brazil and Argentina; second, reputational, when it was discovered that the two previous CEOs had been involved in serious accounting irregularities; and third, in corporate governance, as a result an investor accused of suspicious practices in other com...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Alliances: An Option to Enable Corporate Growth (DGN-648-E)
Ariño, AfricaTechnical Note DGN-648-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThis technical note presents strategic alliances as a growth option for family businesses. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alliances and the most important points to consider at the various stages of the life of an alliance. Together with general considerations applicable to alliances involving any kind of company, it addresses specific issues concerning family businesses in particular.Starting at €8.20
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Disney World and the Alligators (B)
García Guillén, Carlos; Pacheco Barceló, Leyre; Rodríguez Medina, Ignacio; Sastre Ortega, Ana; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-738-ECorporate Governance, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementDisney World resort in Orlando, USA, suffered a crisis when a toddler was taken by an alligator and disappeared inside a pond. The event happened when the senior management was in Shanghai for the inauguration of the new thematic park in China.Starting at €5.74
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Ana Llopis (D): A Race to the Top
Jiménez, Esther; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-359-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, StrategyOver the years, Ana Llopis has made decisions at different points in her professional career and personal life. Her good work and her good relationships with headhunters have helped her to open doors to become chairwoman of the Board at Dia.Starting at €5.74
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Dia's "D-Day" - Leadership Lessons in a Corporate Crisis (B)
de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-817-ECorporate GovernanceDia, the fourth largest retailer in Spain, faced a triple crisis in 2019: first, financial, due to the decline of its business in Spain and exchange rate changes that affected its subsidiaries in Brazil and Argentina; second, reputational, when it was discovered that the two previous CEOs had been involved in serious accounting irregularities; and third, in corporate governance, as a result an investor accused of suspicious practices in other com...Starting at €5.74
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Monsanto and the National University of Córdoba (C): The Price of a Bad Reputation: The Resolution
Fitz Herbert, Arturo; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-800-ECorporate GovernanceArgentina's agri-food sector experienced a boom starting 2011, and the country's arable land doubled in just five years. To meet the demand, Monsanto - the world's leading producer of genetically modified seeds and herbicides - decided to build a plant in the province of Córdoba and sign a collaboration agreement with the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, the oldest and most prestigious academic institution i...Starting at €5.74