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ISS Spain. La máquina integradora (A)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-126Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl director de país de ISS Spain, Joaquim Borràs, preparaba una reunión con otros directores de país de ISS, a la cual había sido invitado para compartir con ellos su experiencia en adquisiciones e integraciones durante los diez años que ya llevaba en ese puesto. Tras hacer un repaso de la historia de la empresa, decidió hacer hincapié en dos puntos fundamentales: las primeras adquisiciones que condujeron a la constitución de ISS Spain, y el año ...Starting at €8.20
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dpms. - The Price of Earned Media
Julia Cutt; Mary WeilCase IVEY-9B14A038-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn April 2014, the co-founder of lifestyle brand dpms., situated in London, Ontario, has a dilemma. Started as an opportunity to showcase her partner’s graphic designs, dpms. first produced silk-screened t-shirts, then branched into jewelry and other locally produced products as the company succeeded. They maintain a booth at a weekly farmers’ and artisans’ market and travel to other festivals around the province but rely mainly on word-of-mouth ...Starting at €8.20
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Earthwear Face & Body: Communicating Corporate Culture (A)
Mary Weil; Julia CuttCase IVEY-9B14C045-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementBy the spring of 2014, the founder of EarthWear Face & Body is in desperate need of part-time employees to help run her successful skin care retail business, which she runs out of her home in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. After eight years of hard work, she has turned her part-time hobby making all-natural skin care products into a thriving business. She sells her products online, through retail stores, at craft and trade shows and at the Saska...Starting at €8.20
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Beyond Business Instinct
Agulles, Remei; Prats Moreno, Mª JuliaArticle ART-1450-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementWhile it is widely assumed that entrepreneurs need business competencies like industry analysis, negotiating skills and resource management, other competencies such as interpersonal skills and self-leadership are all too often overlooked. Yet such competencies play a vital role in entrepreneurship - indeed they are a prerequisite for mobilizing the other capabilities and putting them to work in the various contexts in which entrepreneurship take...Starting at €8.20
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EKM Group Human Capital: El crecimiento concéntrico
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-111EntrepreneurshipSaliendo de una reunión periódica del Fòrum Carlemany, del cual era Presidente, Jaume Sanabras comentaba con Enric Paredes, empresario y gran amigo personal, su trayectoria. En 11 años y empezando de cero, él y su equipo habían conseguido levantar juntos una empresa de 100 trabajadores y que facturaba 30M, siguiendo siempre una filosofía muy particular. Pero, ante una oportunidad que parecía única, reflexionaba en voz alta: ¿Sigue siendo cierto q...Starting at €8.20
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ISS Spain. La máquina integradora (B)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-133Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl director de país de ISS Spain, Joaquim Borràs, recordaba cómo el equipo de ISS Spain decidió en 2004 comprar la empresa de limpieza UNICA, además de Alitecnic, que operaba en las áreas de servicios de control de plagas e higiene medioambiental. De 1999 a 2004, la filial había pasado de 1 a 9.160 empleados por medio de 18 adquisiciones. La empresa tenía un crecimiento orgánico del 7% y unos ingresos de 132 millones de euros, y estaba sólidament...Starting at €5.74
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EKM Group Human Capital
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-111-EEntrepreneurshipAs Jaume Sanabras left a regular meeting of the Carlemany Forum, of which he was chairman, he shared with Eric Paredes, an entrepreneur and a great personal friend, the highlights of its development. In eleven years and starting from scratch, he and his team had managed to build a company with 100 employees invoicing 30 million euros, always faithful to a unique philosophy. But faced with what appeared to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he p...Starting at €8.20
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Earls Restaurants Ltd.: The Importance of a Communication Plan
Mary Weil; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16C052-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementEarls Restaurants, Ltd., a Canadian restaurant chain headquartered in Vancouver, was facing a communications crisis in April 2016, when it changed its sourcing policy with regard to beef. In a bid to appeal to millennial consumers, who were conscious of animal welfare standards, it decided to source beef from a U.S. farm that had its beef independently certified as humane. This cut out the restaurant’s traditional supply sources among Canadian ra...Starting at €8.20
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Earthwear Face & Body: Communicating Corporate Culture (B)
Mary Weil; Julia CuttCase IVEY-9B14C046-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementSupplement to 9B14C045.Starting at €5.74
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ISS Spain. The Integration Machine (B)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-133-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementISS Spain Country Manager Joaquim Borràs remembered how the ISS Spain team decided in 2004 to buy the cleaning company UNICA, as well as Alitecnic, which operated in the service areas of pest control and environmental hygiene. From 1999 to 2004, the subsidiary had gone from 1 to 9,160 employees, through 18 acquisitions. The company had a 7% organic growth and 132M revenue and it was strongly positioned in Spanish Levante, East, North and The Ba...Starting at €5.74