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Costa Valente
Gómez Pajares, Alberto; Urrutia, Josu; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-72Entrepreneurship, StrategyA un empresario afincado en Barcelona y dedicado al sector textil (venta de camisetas a patrocinadores) se le presenta la oportunidad de comprar una pequeña compañía de fabricación de productos textiles en Guimarães (Portugal).Ha de decidir si asume o no dicho proyecto. El análisis que realiza incluye el estudio de la cadena de valor y de la posibilidad de externalizar una parte del negocio, así como el planteamiento de la integración en el negoc...Starting at €8.20
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EPO: Electricidade Portuguesa Online (B)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan Carlos; Soler, EdiCase ASN-62-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyTen months after rejecting an investment fund's offer to become a shareholder in Electricidade Portuguesa Online (EPO), the partners meet with their chief financial officer, Carla Ferreira, to analyze the results of the first three quarters of the year and the forecasts for the following two. Carla must also decide whether to accept the offer of the two partners for her to become a shareholder in the company: they are prepared to offer her 10% of...Starting at €5.74
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Costa Valente
Gómez Pajares, Alberto; Urrutia, Josu; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-72-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA businessman based in Barcelona and dedicated to the textile sector (selling T-shirts to sponsors) is presented with the opportunity to buy a small textile manufacturing company in Guimarães, Portugal. He has to decide whether to take on this project or not. The analysis that he carries out includes a study of the value chain and of the possibility of outsourcing part of the business, as well as the approach the entrepreneur will take to integra...Starting at €8.20
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Chemises en Coton: From Distributor to Manufacturer
Urrutia, Josu; Gómez Pajares, Alberto; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-65-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, StrategyA Barcelona-based entrepreneur in the textile sector (providing T-shirts to promoters) is presented with the opportunity to take over a small textile manufacturing company located in Tangier, Morocco, and he has to decide whether to take the opportunity or not. The analysis includes the study of the value chain and whether any part of it can be outsourced, alignment with the entrepreneur's current business, and how the plan fits in with his lifes...Starting at €8.20
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EPO: Electricidade Portuguesa Online (B)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan Carlos; Soler, EdiCase ASN-62Decision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyDiez meses después de rechazar la oferta de un fondo de inversión para entrar en el capital de Electricidade Portuguesa Online (EPO), los socios se reúnen con su directora financiera, Carla Ferreira, para analizar los resultados de los tres primeros trimestres del año y las previsiones para los dos siguientes. Carla debe decidir, además, si aceptar o no la oferta que le han hecho los dos socios de entrar en el capital de la compañía: están dispue...Starting at €5.74
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Companyia Cervesera del Montseny
Soler, Edi; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-80Decision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategySe recoge la conversación que mantuvieron los autores del caso con los dos socios principales de la Companyia Cervesera del Montseny (CCM), en junio del 2018. Diez años después de su fundación, la empresa había conseguido crecer, pero con escasa rentabilidad y una enorme deuda, debido a las inversiones que habían llevado a cabo en los últimos años. Sin embargo, tenían la sensación de que habían llegado a un punto en el que ya no era posible crece...Starting at €8.20
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Quilts of Denmark: Managing Open Innovation
Wim VanhaverbekeCase IVEY-9B16M213-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyQuilts of Denmark was a Danish start-up company founded in 2000 with the goal of producing high-quality, functional quilts and pillows that contributed to healthy sleep. The company’s open innovation with a space agency and technology company resulted in an “intelligent” quilt that regulated body heat, providing users with an elusive but much-desired experience: a good night’s sleep. Selling a premium product in a commodity market was a challenge...Starting at €8.20
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Companyia Cervesera del Montseny (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Soler, Edi; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-80-PBDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyThis case study contains the interview that the authors conducted with the main partners of the brewery Companyia Cervesera del Montseny in June 2018. A decade after being set up, the company had managed to grow but with poor profitability and enormous debt, due to the investments that they had made in the previous few years. However, they had the feeling that they had reached a point where it was no longer possible to grow organically but, rathe...Starting at €8.20
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Jaga: Managing Creativity and Open Innovation (B)
Wim VanhaverbekeCase IVEY-9B18M120-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyJaga suffered negative economic effects from the 2008 financial crisis. As the crisis persisted in 2011, management planned to substantially reduce the number of employees, but the founder instead chose to fire half of the management team and reorganize the company. Although this decision was considered counterintuitive, it was perfectly aligned with the philosophy of this creative company.Starting at €5.74
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Presans: Building Business Models for Innovation Intermediaries
Wim Vanhaverbeke; Oana-Maria PopCase IVEY-W27510-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPresans was founded in Paris, France in 2008 as an an open innovation intermediary, often referred to as an “innomediary.” Using a specific business model that combined open innovation services with state-of-the-art data-mining technology, Presans leveraged a network of over six million experts worldwide to solve problems for its corporate clients. In February 2017, the chief executive officer of Presans had to make some strategic decisions. Base...Starting at €8.20