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Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls (Spanish Version)
Wasserman, Noam; Galper, RachelCase HBS-813S12EntrepreneurshipBarry Nalls describe las lecciones aprendidas durante su carrera de 25 años - su ascenso al GTE y empresas de menor duración - y cómo lo prepararon para fundar MASERGY, unas telecomunicaciones puesta en marcha. Incluso cuando era un niño en una familia de empresarios, Nalls tenía una reputación como un gran trabajador, pero en lugar de convertirse en empresario sí mismo, se construyó una larga carrera en "la empresa más grande en todo," GET. Desp...Starting at €8.20
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Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls
Wasserman, Noam; Galper, RachelCase HBS-808167-EEntrepreneurshipBarry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career--his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures--and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard worker, but instead of becoming an entrepreneur himself, he built a long career at "the biggest company around," GTE. After years of working there in sales and marketing, he decided ...Starting at €8.20
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Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets, Teaching Plan
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Khanna, Tarun; Wright, Nataliya LangburdTeaching Note HBS-319055-ETeaching plan for case 319054.Starting at €0.00
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Career at a Crossroad: Akhil Patel
Wasserman, Noam; Brem, Lisa; Braid, YaelCase HBS-812010-EEntrepreneurshipAkhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but his fianc e is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing alternative offer from a prestigious consulting firm. Should Akhil follow his dream and become an entrepreneur? Or should he take the "safer" consulting job?Starting at €8.20
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Rubbish Boys
Wasserman, Noam; Galper, RachelCase HBS-808101-EEntrepreneurshipIt looked like founder-CEO Brian Scudamore might not be able to pursue franchising as a growth option for his junk-removal business after all. Over the years, he had overcome many hurdles, including buying out his "too-fiery" co-founder, firing all of his employees so he could start all over again when he became disillusioned with the company's developing culture, and failing at experimenting with student franchising to increase the rate of growt...Starting at €8.20
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Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lubinski, ChristinaCase HBS-811060-EEntrepreneurshipThis case examines the management of home and host country risk by Beiersdorf during the interwar years. It can be used both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal products company, expanded globally before 1914, but had its foreign factories and intellectual property expropriated during World War 1. After 1919 ceo Willy Jacobson rebuilt the in...Starting at €8.20
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Career at a Crossroad: Roopa Rao
Wasserman, Noam; Brem, LisaCase HBS-812011-EEntrepreneurshipAkhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa Rao, his fianc e, is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing alternative offer from a prestigious consulting firm. Should Akhil follow his dream and become an entrepreneur? Or should he acquiesce to the other forces in his life and take the "safer"...Starting at €8.20
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Living on the Razor's Edge (Spanish version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-813S11EntrepreneurshipDescribes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work.Starting at €8.20
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Brazil at the Wheel (Spanish Version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.Case HBS-811S19EconomicsSe imparte en el segundo curso de MBA electiva sobre la evolución del Negocio global. Examina los costos y los beneficios de las políticas del gobierno brasileño para fomentar las multinacionales extranjeras para desarrollar una industria del automóvil durante la década de 1950. Una combinación de incentivos y el cierre de mercado se utiliza para atraer la inversión extranjera directa. Volkswagen respondió más positivamente que las empresas estad...Starting at €8.20
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The Guggenheims and Chilean Nitrates (Spanish Version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Tamega Fernandes, FelipeCase HBS-811S20EntrepreneurshipEl caso describe el crecimiento de Guggenheim hermanos como una de las compañías mineras más grandes del mundo a principios del siglo XX. La expansión global llevó a la empresa a Chile, primero en cobre y más tarde en nitratos naturales. El crecimiento económico de Chile fue impulsado por las ganancias de la minería, en especial su monopolio mundial de los nitratos. Los Guggenheim invertidos en nitratos chilenos después sintéticos fueron desarrol...Starting at €8.20