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Michael Phelps: "It's Okay to Not Be Okay"
Groysberg, Boris; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Norris, MichaelCaso HBS-421044-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIn 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time-the highs and lows, successes and struggles. He had lived with mental health issues for much of his life, going public with his struggles in 2015, when he talked about his depression and suicidal thoughts...Desde 8,20 €
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Kaupthing Bank hf Acquires Singer & Friedlander Group plc (Spanish version)
Murray J. Bryant; Ken MarkCaso IVEY-9B07BS13Contabilidad y control, Dirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraThe managing director of investment banking for Kaupthing Bank hf (Kaupthing) was considering what he would need to do if he accepted a new appointment as chief executive officer of Kaupthing's latest acquisition, U.K.-based investment bank Singer & Friedlander Group plc (Singer). He would have to deal with the fact that the two merging companies had very different cultures, the possibility that some employees may leave as a result of the change ...Desde 8,20 €
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Kaupthing Bank hf Acquires Singer & Friedlander Group plc
Murray J. Bryant; Ken MarkCaso IVEY-9B07B013-EContabilidad y control, Dirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraThe managing director of investment banking for Kaupthing Bank hf (Kaupthing) was considering what he would need to do if he accepted a new appointment as chief executive officer of Kaupthing's latest acquisition, U.K.-based investment bank Singer & Friedlander Group plc (Singer). He would have to deal with the fact that the two merging companies had very different cultures, the possibility that some employees may leave as a result of the change ...Desde 8,20 €
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Brexit
Alfaro, Laura; Schreger, Jesse; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCaso HBS-717028-EEconomíaAfter more than 40 years of membership in the European Union, the United Kingdom voted via referendum to separate from the EU on June 23, 2016. Following the surprise verdict (termed Brexit), a political upheaval followed, with many ministers, including Prime Minister David Cameron, resigning or being sacked, and markets collapsed. As markets recovered, Theresa May was chosen as the new prime minister of the UK in charge of leading the separation...Desde 8,20 €
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Forensic Speaking: The Case of Margaret Thatcher: Primer Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1979-1990)
Leggett, Brian O'ConnorCaso DPO-109-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasAccording to the classical writer Quintilian, "The orator should use the plain style to instruct, the grand style to move, and the intermediate style to charm." When Margaret Thatcher became Britain's prime minister in 1979, she arrived at Downing Street with an argumentative style, authoritative manner and a whole new ideological package. Her style was built on knowing the facts, analyzing them, and then using this analysis to support her conten...Desde 8,20 €
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A Different Kind of Partnership: the UK's Ministry of Defence and EDS develop the Joint Personnel Administration Program (JPA)
Kelman, SteveCaso HBS-HKS452-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasWhen, in 1997, the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) decided to consolidate the Human Resources systems used by its three military services (Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force) into a small number of tri-service ones, it saw the challenge as an IT problem that could be solved through an IT solution. The goal was to increase efficiency and cut costs, and both would be achieved - the MOD thought - by streamlining the more than two hundred customi...Desde 8,20 €
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The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds
Esty, Benjamin C.; Fisher, DanielCaso HBS-719437-EDirección estratégicaIn April 2018, the De Beers Group launched a pilot project called GemFair to create a new supply of ethically and environmentally sourced diamonds from artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) in Sierra Leone. Whether this project would yield a meaningful supply of rough diamonds for De Beers, improve its ability to track diamonds accurately from African mines to consumers around the world, and simultaneously improve both the working conditions in m...Desde 8,20 €
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Worn Again Technologies: Replicating a Circular Model
Nadine de Gannes; R. ChandrasekharCaso IVEY-W33924-EDirección estratégicaIn June 2022, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Worn Again Technologies (Worn Again), a polymer recycling technology company based in London, United Kingdom, was examining the way forward with a new technology that the company had developed and fine-tuned. The technology had been tested successfully at the company’s demonstration plant in Switzerland and was capable of processing fifty thousand tons of material per year. The CEO now needed to ...Desde 8,20 €
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Pursuing Cadbury (A)
Stewart Thornhill; Ken MarkCaso IVEY-9B12M053-EDirección estratégicaKeith Palmerston, managing director at PKG Capital, is thinking about what to do with his firm’s holdings in Kraft Foods. In early 2010, Kraft, primarily a grocery products firm, is trying to acquire Cadbury, a well-known U.K.-based chocolate manufacturer. Palmerston is trying to determine if Cadbury is a good fit for Kraft’s operations and if the transaction will generate value for shareholders. This case can be used in a strategy course as part...Desde 8,20 €
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Charles Axelrod (B): Confonting Decisions
San Martín, Álvaro; Quintanilla, JavierCaso DPO-767-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasCharles "Chuck" Axelrod, CEO of Spartan Capital Management, a famous hedge fund in the City of London, is forced to dismiss Taylor Dillon, Spartan's director of investments and one of the masterminds behind the fund's recent success. The collegial climate at Spartan was eroding quickly. Taylor's conflict with Damian Akerman, the director of one of Spartan's most important divisions, was reaching unbearable dimensions. Plus, it was no longer possi...Desde 5,74 €