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Guidant Corporation (A, B and C) - Teaching Note: Don't Get a Heart Attack! Dificult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-2-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeTeaching Note for Guidant Corporatiion (A), (B), (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm.Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is an high tech star up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. After the death of a patient due to the fault of a Guidant's product, the firm enter into fire. Case C provides the epilogue of the long crisis.Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (A, B and C) - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-11-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a 501(3) nonprofit organization founded in the late 2004 by two Stanford graduate, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture of the Nobel prize Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable to leverage the potential of internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs located in ...Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): "¡No sufras un ataque al corazón!": decisiones difíciles en una empresa líder en la fabricación de marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una startup de alta tecnología que, tras un par de años de actividad, lanza productos nuevos, como marcapasos, desfibriladores implantables, etc. Después de un tiempo, la dirección de Guidant descubre que uno de sus productos, implantado en 24.000 pacientes, presenta graves defectos. Tras la muerte de un paciente por el fallo de un producto Guidant, la empresa se encuentra en una situación peligrosa, por lo que el caso C of...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Responses to a legitimacy threat
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a nonprofit organization founded in late 2004 by two Stanford graduates, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture given by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable of leveraging the potential of Internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA's business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs in emergi...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Respuestas a las críticas sobre su legitimidad
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva es una organización sin ánimo de lucro regulada por el artículo 501(3) del Código Tributario Interno (Internal Revenue Code, IRC) y fundada en 2004 por Matt Flannery y su esposa, Jessica Jackley, dos graduados de Stanford. Matt y Jessica, inspirados por una charla del premio nobel de la paz Muhammad Yunus, decidieron usar su tiempo libre para crear una organización dedicada a los microcréditos capaz de aprovechar el potencial de las tecnolog...Starting at €5.74
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BikeCo and EngInc: Endless Possibilities (Handout A) - Teaching Note
Vanessa C. Hasse; Maclaren ForrestTeaching Note IVEY-W36164-EStrategyTeaching note for product W36163.Starting at €0.00
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GetYourGuide: Managing a Sudden Shock to Business Growth - Teaching Note
Sabrina Goestl; Vanessa C. HasseTeaching Note IVEY-W32661-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product W32660.Starting at €0.00
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BikeCo and EngInc: Endless Possibilities (Handout A)
Vanessa C. Hasse; Maclaren ForrestExercise IVEY-W36163-EStrategyThis experiential exercise is designed to teach students how joint ventures can entail inherent tensions that resemble a real-world prisoner’s dilemma. In the context of a (hypothetical) international collaboration in the global bicycle industry, students are put in the position of the parent firms’ decision-makers and must decide between accessing the other’s knowledge versus wanting to acquire (i.e., own) it. Students are thereby incentivized t...Starting at €8.20
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GetYourGuide: Managing a Sudden Shock to Business Growth
Sabrina Goestl; Vanessa C. HasseCase IVEY-W32660-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn March 2020, the German online travel experience platform GetYourGuide faced an abrupt drop in revenues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the drop, the company had been thriving, grown from a simple idea thought up by a group of friends in a student dormitory into a market-leading company in the travel experience industry with a valuation of over US$1 billion (a “unicorn” start-up) and more than 600 employees across fifteen global ...Starting at €8.20