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Ignacio Valente (B)
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-182Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Valente es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de automóviles de varias marcas. Un mando intermedio se presenta un día en el trabajo con un vehículo recién comprado a la competencia haciendo ostentación de este hecho ante sus compañeros. El motivo de la compra es que en otra empresa le han valorado algo mejor el vehículo a entregar como parte del precio de compra. A pesar de que en su empresa le habían dado facilidades, de...Starting at €5.74
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Ignacio Valente (B)
Ruizalba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-182-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementGrupo Valente is a family-owned business that owns car dealerships of various brands. A middle manager showed up at work one day with a new car recently purchased from the competitor, showing it off to his buddies. The reason he bought it there is that the other company gave him a better trade-in price for his old car. Although his company had offered him a good deal, he decided to buy from the competition. Ignacio Valente, a partner and sales de...Starting at €5.74
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Norman Parker (B)
Ruiz-Alba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-838Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Parker es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de vehículos de varias marcas. Un día, un mando intermedio se presentó en el trabajo montado en un patinete y presumiendo de que había vendido su coche usado a otro concesionario: un competidor. Se lo contaba a sus colegas. La razón por la que lo vendió allí es que la otra empresa le dio un valor de tasación mayor. Sin embargo, él lo había comprado en el Grupo Parker a precio d...Starting at €5.74
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Norma Parker (B)
Ruiz-Alba, José Luis; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-853Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Parker es una empresa familiar propietaria de concesionarios de vehículos de varias marcas. Un día, un mando intermedio se presentó en el trabajo montado en un patinete y presumiendo de que había vendido su coche usado a otro concesionario: un competidor. Se lo contaba a sus colegas. La razón por la que lo vendió allí es que la otra empresa le dio un valor de tasación mayor. Sin embargo, él lo había comprado en el Grupo Parker a precio d...Starting at €5.74
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Women in Business In The New Century: 7 Key Questions
Chinchilla, NuriaTechnical Note DPON-1-ELeadership and People ManagementThe growing number of women joining the labour market and the trend towards globalization have created new challenges for companies. Only companies that embody a culture based on the solid human values inherent in the feminine conception of humanism will be able to remain competitive in the coming millenium. To build such a culture there are a number of points that need to be clarified.Starting at €8.20
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Hotel Vertu: Financing the Venture in the Boutique Hotel Industry
Stevenson, Howard H.; Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-917505-EEntrepreneurshipTwo recent MBA graduates are considering a business opportunity in the boutique hotel industry. Having found a seemingly attractive property in Savannah, Georgia, Yvonne D'Arcy and Elisabeth Whiting face questions about financing, deal structure, and unequal power dynamics. This case covers opportunity analysis, financing and deal structuring, and partnership issues. Students are asked to assess the overall financial returns on the project and ho...Starting at €8.20
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Objectives Are SMART, Missions Are WISE
Rey, Carlos; Chinchilla, Nuria; Pitta, NunoArticle ART-3015-ELeadership and People ManagementFar from staying at the corporate level, missions are increasingly playing a cross-organizational role in companies. Entire divisions, teams and individual workers are setting their own missions across a growing number of firms. Welcome to management by missions (MBM), in which objectives stop being an end in and of themselves and are put to the service of a greater purpose. As the authors argue, while objectives are SMART (Specific, Measurable, ...Starting at €8.20
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Field Iberia, S.A. (A)
Chinchilla, Nuria; Ribera, AlbertoCase FH-541-ELeadership and People ManagementA new regional manager in the telecommunications sector has to take a decision about a former technician who became a salesman who, according to the previous manager, should be fired.Starting at €8.20
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Perspective on Entrepreneurship (Spanish version)
Stevenson, Howard H.Case HBS-302S40EntrepreneurshipDesigned to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship can be fostered or destroyed as a function of the administrative setting.Starting at €8.20
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Laurence Longren: End Game
Stevenson, Howard H.; Spence, Shirley M.Case HBS-808076-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines a successful 64-year old as he considers his goals, and how he should be spending his time, at this stage of his life. It briefly recounts his life story, and provides a special focus on personal financial planning and wealth management issues.Starting at €8.20