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Virgin Group: Finding New Avenues for Growth
Pisano, Gary P.; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-612070-EThe head of the branded private investment company owner of the Virgin brand reflected on the group's new pillars of growth. Since the 1970s when Richard Branson created the Virgin record retailing company, Virgin had developed from scratch six companies worth more than $1 billion each and changed their focus from record retailing and music production to a broader one based on airlines, health, financial services, mobile and media businesses. In ...Starting at €8.20
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Tenova: Mining for Growth in Economic Crisis
Pisano, Gary P.; Corsi, Elena; Farri, ElisaCase HBS-610021-EService and Operations ManagementIn December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and mining industry, had to choose between two options. The first was to continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The second option offered growth in a related, but nearly new business for Tenova: the equipment for mining, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. They only had a small presence in ...Starting at €8.20
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Marieta Textil, S.A.
Gil, P.; Nueno, José Luis; Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.Case M-715MarketingMarieta Textil es una pequeña empresa dedicada a la "edición de telas". El proceso de negocio consiste en adquirir los diseños originales a famosos artistas vanguardistas, para hacerlos estampar sobre tela por parte de terceros. La empresa vende estos estampados a tiendas de decoración. Tras cierto éxito en España, desean exportar, pero no consiguen tener un volumen de ventas en el extranjero que tenga un mínimo de importancia y continuidad. Cont...Starting at €8.20
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Cavas Masachs
Gil, P.; Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.Case M-714-EMarketingStarting at €8.20
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Agencia de publicidad Aramburu, S.A.
Gil, P.; Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.Case M-723-EMarketingStarting at €8.20
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North Goes East
Retsinas, Nicolas P.; Beyersdorfer, Daniela; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-208136-EFinanceIn August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real Estate Opportunities Fund," need to decide which real estate investment the Fund should pursue as its first project. The Fund's target region, Central and Eastern Europe, was changing rapidly and returns in some of the more developed regions started to resemble those generated in Western Europe. Yet, the two partners had managed to identify se...Starting at €8.20
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Agencia de publicidad Aramburu, S.A.
Gil, P.; Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.Case M-723MarketingUna mediana agencia de publicidad con más de treinta años de experiencia lleva unos diez años haciendo publicidad en Africa. Al principio sólo trabajaba para INVESA, una empresa española que ha ido penetrando en aquellos países. Pero desde hace tres años (1983-86) ha empezado también a prestar sus servicios a empresas locales de aquellos países. El director general considera que APA, S.A. tiene un "know-how" publicitario sobre ciertos países afri...Starting at €8.20
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Cavas Masachs
Gil, P.; Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.Case M-714MarketingCavas Masachs es una pequeña empresa familiar que elabora vinos de cava en Vilafranca del Penedés. Empezaron en 1977, y aún sin haber cubierto el mercado interior deciden exportar contando con la colaboración de un agente exportador libre a comisión, Joe Quaid, un norteamericano expatriado. El caso describe los primeros pasos en la exportación, realizados con muy poco dinero. En esencia han usado los servicios de Quaid, y han acudido a ferias int...Starting at €8.20
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Comercio Internacional del Vino, S.A. (B)
Parés Canalias, Francisco; Renart, Lluís G.; Wiers P.Case M-954MarketingContinuación del caso (A) (M-788). Describe los principales hechos acaecidos en este consorcio de exportación desde febrero de 1990 hasta septiembre de 1992. De entre dichos acontecimientos cabe destacar: la sustitución de un socio bodeguero por otro; el abandono del consorcio por parte del socio administrador (no bodeguero); y el subsiguiente abandono del consorcio por parte de otro de los socios bodegueros, a causa de dificultades económicas no...Starting at €5.74
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Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real
Snow, Daniel C.; Pisano, Gary P.; Corsi, Elena; Kristinsdottir, Gudrun UrfalinoCase HBS-609042-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Columbus Tubing must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing power of carbon fiber manufacturing partners in Asia, growing wage rates in Asia, and high wage rates in Italy. Two plans have been pres...Starting at €8.20