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Helena Divi ov
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-220020-EEntrepreneurshipHelena Divi ov (MBA, 2016) decided to return home to the Czech Republic soon after graduation to be near her father who became seriously ill soon after she started HBS. She had considered leaving HBS immediately to help run his business. But her father, who grew up in the Czech Republic when travel and overseas educational opportunities were severely limited, would not allow her to abandon her studies. Instead, Divi ov 's husband, Pavel Divi...Starting at €8.20
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Talismark
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211097-EFinanceTalismark, which helped its customers manage their waste, was considering re-engineering its business fundamentals to dramatically increase profitability by changing its sales and information processes. Implementing the changes would be expensive and would interrupt its new customer acquisition efforts, and it would be 18 months until the company could begin to acquire new business. The case explores the rationale and consequences of re-engineeri...Starting at €8.20
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Bodegas PRADOREY: Keys to the Future of a Family Business in the Winemaking Industry
Elvira, Marta; Proaño Vicente, Ángel; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1708-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2022, after several tough years turning the company around, Bodegas PRADOREY was finally looking towards the future. Founded in 1989, this family-owned winery had become an important winemaker within Ribera del Duero, one of Spain's Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) winemaking regions. But PRADOREY's road had not been an easy one. The winery had gone through difficult times in the 2010s, which could easily have ended the company. Thanks to...Starting at €8.20
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The DIA of Tomorrow: Can New Ownership Turn Around the Business?
Calleja, Luis Manuel; Elvira, Marta; Proaño Vicente, Ángel; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1712-ECorporate Governance, StrategyIn 2019, seven years after going public, DIA, the third largest supermarket chain in Spain in revenue, was going through the most important crisis in its history. That year it had narrowly avoided bankruptcy, thanks to the intervention of LetterOne, the investment fund of Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman who, after a long, complex and controversial takeover, had become the largest shareholder in the company. One of LetterOne's first decisions, in M...Starting at €8.20
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Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceArticle HBS-R1701M-EEntrepreneurshipAn increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is "acquisition entrepreneurship"--buying and running an existing operation. If you're considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. (1) Think it through. Do you have the right qualities for the job (managerial skills, confidence, persuasiveness, persistence, a thirst for learning, and tolerance for stress)? Are you willing to trade the...Starting at €8.20
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Bodegas PRADOREY: Keys to the future of a family business in the winemaking industry - teaching note
Elvira, Marta; Proaño Vicente, Ángel; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-142-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2022, after several tough years turning the company around, Bodegas PRADOREY was finally looking towards the future. Founded in 1989, this family-owned winery had become an important winemaker within Ribera del Duero, one of Spain's Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) winemaking regions. But PRADOREY's road had not been an easy one. The winery had gone through difficult times in the 2010s, which could easily have ended the company. Thanks to...Starting at €0.00
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Atam: Innovating in the Social Sector (A)
Elvira, Marta; Prats, Mª Julia; Plaza López, LuisCase DPO-244-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeAtam is an association of Grupo Telefónica, which was founded in 1973 with the aim of providing assistance for the disabled and elderly dependents. It was the result of an agreement between the company and its labor unions. It is a nonprofit, national organization, declared to be serving the public interest, and has 60,000 members belonging to 28 companies of the group. Atam has three major areas of action: individual financial support, direct-ca...Starting at €8.20
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Diversity in top management teams
Rodríguez-Lluesma, Carlos; Martín, Miguel; Elvira, MartaTechnical Note DPON-149-ELeadership and People ManagementThe concept of "diversity" enjoys a good reputation, in general, but almost all of us have heard opinions such as "Years and years of attending awareness and social inclusion seminars, and the bottom line has not increased by a penny" or "They said the solutions would be better, but I still work the same and the innovation has been the same". Academia supports this discrepancy between the theory sought in the business world and the practical real...Starting at €8.20
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National Public Broadcasting
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceCase HBS-211058-EFinanceBob Williams, the CEO of National Public Broadcasting (NPB), was considering an unsolicited offer to purchase the company in the early spring of 2006. The company was a media underwriting representative for public television and radio stations throughout the United States. When Williams and his wife Linda Williams started NPB in 1996, they had imagined that it would grow quickly and be acquired by a larger media representation firm in a few years...Starting at €8.20
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Executive Compensation at Talent Partners, Teaching Note
Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, RoyceTeaching Note HBS-220081-EFinanceTalent Partners, a payroll service firm focused on actors in commercials, hired Paul Muratore to be its CEO in 2002. His compensation package included a fixed salary and a bundle of Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) that would expire at the end of a five-year period. If Talent Partners reached its target EBITDA growth, the SAR would double Muratore's total compensation. Teaching note for case 211073.Starting at €0.00