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Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Sieber, Sandra; Zamora, Javier; Sek, Tomasz; Goetschi, BeatCase SI-182-PBEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final testing of his New York-based IT start-up company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date of this innovative photo crowdsourcing service commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client, the newspaper the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed that the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realize...Starting at €8.20
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Being an entrepreneur in a family business (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Gallo, Miguel ÁngelTechnical Note DGN-512-PBStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Voltium, Inc. (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
del Potro, Eloy; Stein Martínez, Guido; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Vázquez-Dodero de Bonifaz, Juan CarlosCase BE-173-PBBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe manager at Voltium,a European company that was installing electricity in various parts of an African country, pondered whether it was justifiable to yield to the extortion of a local public official of the Dambo region, just as the company was about to finalize the project for the electrification of the area. This case was recognized by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as the best publication in the 2012 Case Writing ...Starting at €8.20
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Suppliers Selection at Pepsico Europe (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Serrano, Alejandro; Nadjia Gassner; Humberto Pardi; Girbal Puig, AlbertCase P-1190-PBService and Operations ManagementIn 2018, Pepsico is considering adding a new supplier of CO2 to its manufacturing process in Eastern European plants. The new supplier offers a very competitive price, but other key aspects, such as reliability, service level, etc. should be carefully pondered before making a decision. Also, adding a new supplier implies removing one of the extant ones. Which one should be removed? The proposal made by Migdalski, head of purchasing in Eastern Eur...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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Big Bank Experiments With Artificial Intelligence (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Zamora, Javier; Virgili, Joaquim; Bandach, Natalia; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-203-PBBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, Finance, Information Technologies, StrategyFlorence Smith, CEO of Millennials Bank, was heading towards the board meeting where the directors of Big Bank (owner of Millennials Bank) where going to review the results of the newly created Millennials Bank, a digital branch of the main bank which targets the millennial generation. This initiative also serves as a pilot on how to make the bank a more dynamic entity. However, despite high hopes for change, the new digital bank is so far not me...Starting at €8.20
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Orbea (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Grandes, Mª Jesús; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-773-PBAccounting and ControlIn 2002, Orbea was considering manufacturing store brand bicycles for a large-scale retailer. This case is designed to help students learn to look at the effects of a business decision on a company's fixed costs as a part of their cost-benefit analyses. Specifically, the case can be used to look at how to carry out a differential cost analysis of the increase in the company's current asset financing needs.Starting at €8.20
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Manufacturas Riaño, S.A. (A) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Mata A.; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase FH-327-PBLeadership and People ManagementThe company has hired a new managing director, who does not see eye to eye with the plant manager and hires a new one through a headhunter. What instructions should be given? What are the foreseeable consequences of the conflict between the old one and the new one? How can these problems be solved?Starting at €8.20
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Manufacturas Riaño, S.A. (B) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Mata A.; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase FH-328-PBLeadership and People ManagementThe company has hired a new managing director, who does not see eye to eye with the plant manager and hires a new one through a headhunter. What instructions should be given? What are the foreseeable consequences of the conflict between the old one and the new one? How can these problems be solved?Starting at €5.74
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Vueling's Mobile Strategy Takes Flight (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Zamora, Javier; Káganer, Evgeny; Tatarinov, Katherine; Oré, AndreuCase SI-193-PBInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyVueling Airlines announced in 2014 that a larger percentage of its IT budget would be spent on mobile applications than on the website. However, the revenue from mobile remained relatively small compared with that from the Web. In designing Vueling's future mobile strategy, the IT and online marketing managers face the dilemma of whether to prioritize sales or customer experience.Starting at €8.20