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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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Aviron Interactive Inc.: Bootstrapping a Gamification Fitness Startup
Derrick Neufeld; Ning Su; Ken Mark; Vy Hoang; Michael LaPalme; Angela VavitsasCase IVEY-9B19E003-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2016, Toronto entrepreneur Andy Hoang was working to launch a new business, Aviron Interactive Inc., a developer and marketer of interactive rowing machines that would use gamification to allow users to work out with others through a virtual connection and an innovative, remotely-activated resistance adjustor. Hoang wanted to create the new business by wrapping an outsourced services model around a central core that included the key business i...Starting at €8.20
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Didi, Kuaidi, and Uber in China
Ning Su; Yulin Fang; Yukun YangCase IVEY-9B16M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2014, China’s leading domestic Internet-based ride-hailing company, Didi, claimed more than 50 per cent of the Chinese ride-hailing market, followed closely by a major local competitor, Kuaidi. As Didi and Kuaidi actively competed against each other, U.S.-based Uber entered the battle with a different strategy. In the face of the increasingly complex and constantly changing landscape of China’s ride-hailing market, Didi’s founders wondered wha...Starting at €8.20
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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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ExerciseApp
Barbara L. Marcolin; Ning Su; Corey RochkinCase IVEY-9B13E001-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyThe CEO and founder of ExerciseApp decided to take the plunge and spec out the features of his new iPhone mobile application and supporting website. He planned for ExerciseApp to stream exercise workouts from pro-athletes to followers who wanted to “Train. Play. Be. Like the Pros” and get an edge to their workouts. As he envisioned the application, he realized he would need a lot of help with the technology and the setup of this entrepreneurial v...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