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Laboratorios Dermolán (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Palencia, Luis; Grandes, Mª JesúsExercise CE-25-PBAccounting and ControlIn 2011, Laboratorios Dermolán was a company that researched, developed and manufactured medicines to treat skin pathologies. It had been founded in Barcelona in 1970. Until 2008, it had also been involved in selling the products, with as many as 32 sales agents. Reduced margins due to increasing pressure on public health care spending and the limited competitiveness of some of its products led the company to begin recording losses in 2005.Starting at €8.20
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Healy Hudson: e-Sourcing Solutions (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Sachon, MarcCase P-1019-PBInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementBased in Munich, Bavaria, the company is a pioneer in the world of e-procurement. It has developed an online purchasing system for the Business-to-Business sector. In the fall of 2000 it is selling two e-commerce products: Impact Ordering and Impact Sourcing. The former is a simple electronic catalog ordering system; the latter is designed for the sourcing of complex goods.Starting at €8.20
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Eólica de Composites S. A. (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosCase ASN-47-PBService and Operations ManagementA company suddenly wins a substantial contract, but doesn't have sufficient capacity in its existing plants to execute it. The search for a new plant location yields two final alternatives for a possible location, with similar costs but very different situations. One of them favors a policy of outsourcing but with few qualified workers, and the other is opposed to such a policy. The prioritization, analysis and explicit description of selection c...Starting at €8.20
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Typhoon Computers GmbH (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Go L.; Fraguas, RafaelCase ASN-18-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeTyphoon Computers sells PC components in Eastern Europe. Almost three years after it was formed, the company finds itself facing a number of problems due to its rapid growth. It now has to decide how to make the transition from an entrepreneurial to a more professional style of organization.Starting at €8.20
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Escatsa: The UK and Hungary Decisions (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Castañosa, Carlos; Palencia, Luis; García Pont, CarlosCase ASN-33-PBLeadership and People ManagementA medium size Spanish company, manufacturing steel sheet jobs for the automobile industry, must decide on two alternatives to expand internationally. The choice of one or the other (or both) requires analysis of core competencies, customer base, risk, cost structures and project financing. Since time is an issue, the decision must be made with incomplete information.Starting at €8.20
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Companyia Cervesera del Montseny (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Soler, Edi; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-80-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyThis case study contains the interview that the authors conducted with the main partners of the brewery Companyia Cervesera del Montseny in June 2018. A decade after being set up, the company had managed to grow but with poor profitability and enormous debt, due to the investments that they had made in the previous few years. However, they had the feeling that they had reached a point where it was no longer possible to grow organically but, rathe...Starting at €8.20
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Presscut (A) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Vázquez-Dodero F.; Badia, MarcCase ASN-29-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyAfter five years' hard work, the managers of a clipping agency (press and TV reports) are considering a strategic alliance that could end in a merger.Starting at €8.20
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Pieles de la Garriga, S.A. (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Fraguas, RafaelCase ASN-28-PBDecision AnalysisPedro Sáez, director of one of the divisions of Pieles de la Garriga, S.A., receives notice of a possible order from an important customer, At short notice he has to decide whether to bid for the contract and on what terms.Starting at €8.20
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Presscut (B) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Vázquez-Dodero F.; Badia, MarcCase ASN-30-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyAfter discussing the matter with the shareholders and the management, the Chairman of the Board considers the terms and conditions to be set for a possible merger between Presscut and its larger rival.Starting at €5.74
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Presscut (C) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Vázquez-Dodero F.; Badia, MarcCase ASN-31-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyOutcome of the series of events related in cases (A) and (B).Starting at €5.74