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Forming Ties That Will Free Your Firm
Eisenhardt, K.M.; Ozcan, PinarArticle ART-1533-EStrategyStrategic alliances provide opportunities to strengthen your market position, gain new capabilities and resources, and enable you to grow and expand during difficult times. Many large, highly resourced companies already know this and are leveraging it to their advantage. But how can a small firm with fewer resources obtain and manage a high-performing alliance portfolio? Getting the alliance portfolio you dreamed of, and then managing it well ove...Starting at €8.20
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Getting to Grips With Take-Back Laws
Atasu, Atalay; Van Wassenhove, LukArticle ART-1892-EService and Operations ManagementAs diverse environmental legislation is being formulated around the world, companies may find themselves in a ¿gray zone,¿ as the authors explain in a new paper on the subject. This presents challenges but also opportunities for companies to clarify operations in four areas: forming a network, rethinking product design, setting up a closed-loop supply chain, and adopting new technologies and business models. The authors believe that individual pr...Starting at €8.20
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Amenazas globales: diagnóstico y acción
Done, Adrian A.Article ART-2076Service and Operations Management, Strategy¿Cuánto tiempo dedica a pensar en las grandes cuestiones que afectarán a su vida personal y profesional en los próximos 20 años? Si está tan ocupado como la mayoría de sus colegas, no mucho. Pero las perspectivas de la economía mundial son peores hoy que cuando la crisis crediticia tocó fondo, así que de nada sirve esconder la cabeza. Es mejor atisbar las tendencias globales que acechan en el horizonte, analizar a fondo las fuerzas subyacentes y ...Starting at €8.20
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Los puntos negros de la nueva Ruta de la Seda
Ribera Segura, Jaume; Castillo, CristinaArticle ART-2081Service and Operations ManagementEn los últimos meses se ha acentuado el fenómeno de la relocalización desde China. Aunque habitualmente se apunta al encarecimiento de la mano de obra y otros factores de producción como la principal causa de esta tendencia, lo cierto es que una parte del margen se pierde debido a las ineficiencias en los distintos eslabones de la cadena de suministro entre China y Europa. Un estudio realizado por CEIBS analiza el papel de cada agente de la caden...Starting at €8.20
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Ebola: Managing to Save Lives
IESE InsightArticle ART-2676-EService and Operations ManagementA year after the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in March 2014, health-care experts are cautiously optimistic that the epidemic appears to be slowing. Although the outlook is brighter than a year ago when the first case was detected in Guinea, there is still a long way to go and many lessons to be learned in managing a crisis of this scale, related to institutional shortfalls, international coordination, engagement with local stakeholders and, m...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Issue 15. Fourth Quarter 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-36-EAccounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyClaus Rerup (Richard Ivey School of Business) presents a framework for companies to improve their capability to pick up on signals that impending crises give off before they happen. The corporate communications consultant Alfonso González-Herrero looks at the key issues that companies must address, with forecasting and planning, in order to safeguard their reputations. IESE's José R. Pin provides a guide to help managers lead and communicate, so ...Starting at €22.00
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El Servicio de Bienestar Social en Malterías Nacional S.A. (A)
Mies, R.Case ESE-DP-C-ES-05-002AStrategyJuan Andrés Mercado, Gerente de Recursos Humanos de Malterías Nacional S.A., debe tomar la decisión de asumir la quiebra del Servicio de Bienestar Social, creado por la empresa y administrado en conjunto con el sindicato, o hacer cambios profundos en su gestión. El caso detalla el proceso de negociación con el sindicato, que se opone a los cambios y exige una pronta solución.Starting at €8.20
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El Servicio de Bienestar Social en Malterías Nacional S.A. (B)
Mies, R.Case ESE-DP-C-ES-05-002BStrategyJuan Andrés Mercado ve una oportunidad en la flexibilidad que muestra el sindicato y realiza una propuesta de trabajo. Se enfrenta ahora a la votación de esta propuesta que definirá el camino a seguir.Starting at €5.74
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El Servicio de Bienestar Social en Malterías Nacional S.A. (C)
Mies, R.Case ESE-DP-C-ES-05-002CStrategyA pesar de todos los pronósticos la sorpresa fue mayor: en la primera votación el sindicato acordó mantener el antiguo sistema. Juan Andrés Mercado se ve obligado a solicitar una nueva votación lo antes posible.Starting at €5.74
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Airbus International: North American International Business Strategy
Epps, Elena: Diaz-Molina, Ivan; Sorich, David; Townsend, Ryan; White, Anne Marie; Zhang, QuipingCase ESE-ES-C-ES-17-258-EStrategyIt was the beginning of February of 2007 and the weather was mild in Toulouse, France. Louis Gallois, the CEO of EADS (the manufacturer of the Airbus family of planes), was preparing his presentation to the Board for the scheduled meeting in a couple of weeks. The two major questions that puzzled Gallois were, one, what was the pressure from their North American customers for local responsiveness and, two, how was Airbus best to go about meeting ...Starting at €8.20