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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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Nuria Chinchilla: el poder de cambiar la empresa
Apfeffer, Jeffrey; Anderson, Megan ElisabethCase SGSB-OB67ESStrategyEn 1993, Nuria Chinchilla había completado recientemente su tesis doctoral en IESE Business School en Barcelona, sobre el tema de la rotación organizacional, sin un enfoque particular en las mujeres, los arreglos laborales flexibles o los problemas laborales. Ella eligió permanecer en el IESE, donde había trabajado desde principios de la década de 1980 como profesora asistente. Para el año 2003, poco más de una década después, había alcanzado e...Starting at €8.20
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Mismanagement of Fiscal Policy: Greece's Achilles' Heel
Tulsi JayakumarCase IVEY-9B17M142-EStrategyIn December 2016, the debt-stricken Greek government announced the distribution of a sizeable “Christmas gift” to its low-income pensioners, a one-time bonus that would cost the government €617 million. This cost was in addition to suspending increases in the value-added tax on some Greek islands. These plans were in clear violation of the terms of a bailout provided to Greece by Eurozone nations in 2015, which required Greece to implement auster...Starting at €8.20
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The Edifício España: A Global Investor Meets Local Politics
Klaus Meyer; Alicia Wang; Tomaz FittipaldiCase IVEY-9B17M108-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Dalian Wanda Group Co. Ltd. (Wanda) was a fast-growing real estate imperium in China, built by Jianlin Wang, the wealthiest man in China. In 2010, Wang transformed Wanda into an entertainment conglomerate and initiated an ambitious international growth strategy. His ambitions knew few limits; however, one of his acquisitions—the Edificio España in Spain, an iconic historical building in the centre of Madrid—ran into difficulties due to confli...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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Amorim: The Future of Natural Cork
Chris Laszlo; Katherine Gullett; Tim KruegerCase IVEY-9B17M019-EStrategyIn 2015, Corticeira Amorim, S.G.P.S., S.A. (Amorim), the world’s largest cork manufacturer, was facing multiple strategic dilemmas. After enjoying a near-monopoly in the wine stopper market for over 300 years, cork’s reputation had been damaged in the 20th century by concerns over “cork taint,” and the cork industry had been challenged by the resulting disruptive technologies of screw caps and synthetic corks. Amorim needed to rethink its core as...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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Bankinter: Growth Options During the Spanish Crisis
Eric Duca; Lidija LovretaCase IVEY-9B15N024-EFinance, StrategyThe president of Bankinter, a Español bank, decided that the time was right to expand. At the time, the Español economy was experiencing a severe downturn and the banking system was going through major reforms. He believed that growth could occur either organically or through acquisitions — as long as the target business complemented Bankinter’s present operations and preserved the company’s values and organizational culture. His goal was to choo...Starting at €8.20