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NKT Photonics A/S: Doing Business at the Technological Frontiers
Torben Pedersen; Githa KurdahlCase IVEY-9B16M055-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTo improve its profitability, NKT Photonics A/S (NKT), a small Danish company operating in the global photonics industry, was getting ready to undertake the commercialization process of its highly advanced optical fibre technology. NKT’s chief executive officer (CEO) was considering two options for accomplishing this goal: (1) establishing strategic partnerships with system integrators in order to gain access to commercial customers, or (2) repos...Starting at €8.20
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Nokia: From In-house to Joint R&D
Marcus Moller Larsen; Torben PedersenCase IVEY-9B11M114-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case describes the organizational and strategic challenges of outsourcing research and development (R&D) activities from Denmark to China. Nokia Denmark was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Nokia Corporation and contained the largest Nokia R&D unit, concentrating on the development of mobile phones, outside Finland. In 2007, Nokia Denmark received instructions from corporate headquarters to drastically increase the number of mobile pho...Starting at €8.20
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Vestas Wind Systems A/S - Exploiting Global R&D Synergies
Torben Pedersen; Marcus Moller LarsenCase IVEY-9B09M079-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyWith a change in management in 2005 came a radical reorganization and the announcement of several new strategic initiatives. Among the initiatives was the establishment of the Vestas Technology research and development (R&D) business unit with an aim of achieving global leadership in all core technology areas and, consequently, strengthening the core competence for the company. By 2008, Vestas had succeeded in setting up a global R&D network with...Starting at €8.20
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The "Jaipur foot"
de Matos, Luis; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-773(I)-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe case presents a new business model to produce low cost prosthesis, made and adapted in less than a day and with no need of maintenance for several years. Also, the low cost makes the prosthesis accessible to just about anybody.The case describes a company which produces and places foot or leg prosthesis, as a way to alleviate people suffering from a deficiency which seriously impairs their quality of life. They are people who for some reason ...Starting at €8.20
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Ribe Maskinfabrik A/S - Developing New Business Areas
Bo Bernhard Nielsen; Torben Pedersen; Jacob PyndtCase IVEY-9B09M012-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyRibe Maskinfabrik A/S (RM) had, during the last 15 years, developed from a simple machine works operating out of Southern Jutland (Denmark) to the modern and globalized RM Group consisting of three distinct business units. This change had developed gradually as its outsourcing activities became increasingly important during the last years. In the beginning, outsourcing activities developed in an ad-hoc and reactive manner. However, RM gained impo...Starting at €8.20
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Aravind Eye Care System (English)
Janeiro Dias, A.; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-503(I)-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis is the story of an ophthalmology surgeon, who, after having obtained a specialisation in obstetrics, was struck down by rheumatoid arthritis in his thirties. He decided after his illness, to give up his speciality and start training in another medical specialisation, ophthalmology surgery. In his career as a surgeon, he had been in charge of the more demanding management functions in State hospitals, as well as performing surgery. When he re...Starting at €8.20
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Aravind Eye Care System (English) - Teaching note
Janeiro Dias, A.; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioTeaching Note AESE-DG-A-503(I) TN-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis is the story of an ophthalmology surgeon, who, after having obtained a specialisation in obstetrics, was struck down by rheumatoid arthritis in his thirties. He decided after his illness, to give up his speciality and start training in another medical specialisation, ophthalmology surgery. In his career as a surgeon, he had been in charge of the more demanding management functions in State hospitals, as well as performing surgery. When he re...Starting at €0.00
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Sair mais forte da crise - Dez ideias para reforçar o valor da empresa
Viassa Monteiro, EugénioTechnical Note AESE-DGN-A-1101-PPEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeO autor sugere dez ideias já aplicadas com bom resultado em muitas organizações, para que os dirigentes considerem se são de utilizar, e de que maneira, nas circunstâncias concretas da sua organização. Em muitos casos poderá ser conveniente utilizar sequencialmente duas ou mais das ideias sugeridas, sempre com a adaptação necessária às condições concretas.Starting at €8.20
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Banco Grameen - El crédito como derecho humano
Janeiro Dias, A.; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-458(E)Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso es una breve descripción de la creación del Banco, en respuesta a una necesidad urgente de la población pobre que no podía permitirse obtener préstamos para la compra de prima para trabajar y vender más tarde. Los préstamos se obtenían de manera informal, es decir, no de los bancos, tenían tasas de interés usureras y provenían de personas ricas que explotaban las necesidades financieras de los pobres. También describe como Grameen ha id...Starting at €8.20
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The Grameen Bank. Credit as a Human Right
Janeiro Dias, A.; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-458(I)-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe case contains a brief description of the Bank’;s launching, as an answer to an urgent need of the poor population which couldn’;t find a way of obtaining loans for the acquisition of raw material to be worked on and sold later. The loans informally available, that is, not from the banks, had usurers interest rates and came from rich people exploiting the financial needs of the poor. It also describes the way Grameen has been developing its pr...Starting at €8.20