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TTTech in 2017: When Market and Technology Trends Align with Company Capabilities
Siegel, R; Kissick, RCase SGSB-E635-EEntrepreneurship“TTTech in 2017: When Market and Technology Trends Align with Company Capabilities” examines the Austrian technology company TTTech. A global leader in robust networked safety controls, TTTech developed hardware and software solutions that improved the safety and reliability of embedded electronic systems across a variety of industries, including automotive, manufacturing/industrial, aerospace, energy, and off-highway machinery. In 2017, cofoun...Starting at €8.20
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Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B16M045-EStrategyAt the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather than quarters. However, the monastery’s business director needed to make a decision in a much shorter timeframe. The monastery employed approximately 600 people in its forestry, wine-growing, energy, real estate, services, and industrial businesses. Its largest subsidiary, an industrial manufactur...Starting at €8.20
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Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont (Spanish version)
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B16MS045StrategyAt the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather than quarters. However, the monastery’s business director needed to make a decision in a much shorter timeframe. The monastery employed approximately 600 people in its forestry, wine-growing, energy, real estate, services, and industrial businesses. Its largest subsidiary, an industrial manufactur...Starting at €8.20
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Voestalpine AG (A)
Murray J. Bryant; Werner Auer-Rizzi; Iris Fischlmayr; Caecilia Innreiter; Brett Matthews; Michael EyettCase IVEY-9B07M032-EStrategyVoestalpine AG, a public company located in Linz, Austria, was examining opportunities for growth. The company considers that to meet the needs of its customers, notably automobile, rail and construction, it has to grow. Further, the steel industry in Europe is in a process of consolidation. The company has a very strong balance sheet but due to its ownership structure (35 per cent is owned by the Austrian government), its market value is conside...Starting at €8.20
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Voestalpine AG (B)
Murray J. Bryant; Werner Auer-Rizzi; Sabine Reisinger; Harald Stummer; Robert Bauer; Michael Eyett; Brett MatthewsCase IVEY-9B07M033-EStrategyThis supplement to Voestalpine AG (A), product 9b07M032, examines the decision to expand vertically instead of horizontally, but looking at a stamping plant and plastics firm (to get closer to its automotive customers) and a design firm. More importantly, the case examines the tools and methodologies employed by the company to assess fit in terms of costs and competencies and customers and competition.Starting at €5.74
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Paths to Keep Wealth in Family Hands
Roure Alomar, Juan; Segurado Llorente, Juan LuisArticle ART-2596-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipSince the onset of the global financial crisis, there has been a surge of interest among family businesses in the activities of family offices -- special entities designed to manage and administer a family's portfolio of investments, while also making sure that future wealth-creation activities happen in sustainable ways for generations to come. With the combined wealth of the 50 largest family offices representing nearly $1 trillion, family busi...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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Banco de la Gente Emprendedora, BANGENTE C.A.
Villanueva González, Andrés; Villanueva, Priscila; Cátedra René Morales Carazo de Emprendimiento; Schill, RyanCase INCAE-31260_SFinanceBANGENTE fue un proyecto para desarrollar un nuevo banco para apoyar el éxito económico de los pequeños empresarios de Venezuela, ofreciendo créditos y otros servicios financieros para personas que trabajas en al economía informal y no tienen acceso a servicios financieros.Starting at €8.20
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Chocolate Artesanal Venezolano: Emprendimiento en Tiempos de Crisis
Fernández Melo, Juan Pablo; Cátedra René Morales Carazo de Emprendimiento; Schill, RyanCase INCAE-31264_SEntrepreneurshipPara 2018, en Venezuela había surgido un grupo de emprendimientos dedicados a la chocolatería artesanal, los cuales nacieron como alternativa para sortear la profunda crisis económica que aquejaba al país sudamericano desde 2014. Mantuano Chocolate, uno de estos emprendimientos, se encontraba en planes de expansión fuera de Venezuela y Giovanni Conversi, fundador de la empresa, reflexionaba sobre el éxito de su modelo de negocios basado en innova...Starting at €8.20
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+58Cacao: Emprendedoras Apasionadas por el Chocolate Artesanal Venezolano
Fernández Melo, Juan Pablo; Vellojín Helíaz, Marcela; Cátedra.René Morales Carazo de EmprendimientoCase INCAE-31276_SEntrepreneurshipLas hermanas Adriana y Teresa Pino se asocian con la diseñadora gráfica Sandra Boesi para crear en 2015 un emprendimiento llamado +58Cacao, en el cual elaboran barras de chocolate con cacao venezolano. La difícil situación económica de Venezuela ocurrida a partir de 2014 les lleva a buscar alternativas laborales que les brinden ingresos adicionales a sus profesiones cotidianas. La creación de este emprendimiento no es tarea fácil, tomando en cuen...Starting at €8.20