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Unilever (2017): The Board of Directors and the CEO in Governance and Strategy (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Canals, JordiCase SM-1671-PBCorporate GovernanceThe Kraft Heinz takeover offer to buy Unilever in February 2017 is an inflection point for a leading company in the global consumer goods industry that has been doing quite well for the past few years. Unilever is a multi-stakeholder company that has become the leader in sustainability strategy in the fast moving consumer goods landscape. This case allows for a discussion on what the board and the CEO should do in facing and preparing a formal a...Starting at €8.20
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Escatsa: The UK and Hungary Decisions (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Castañosa, Carlos; Palencia, Luis; García Pont, CarlosCase ASN-33-PBLeadership and People ManagementA medium size Spanish company, manufacturing steel sheet jobs for the automobile industry, must decide on two alternatives to expand internationally. The choice of one or the other (or both) requires analysis of core competencies, customer base, risk, cost structures and project financing. Since time is an issue, the decision must be made with incomplete information.Starting at €8.20
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Cómo la IA cambiará (o no) tu modo de dirigir
Canals, Jordi; Cassiman, Bruno; Elvira, Marta; Sieber, Sandra; Raes, AnneloesArticle ART-3203Information Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAl expandir los límites de lo que las máquinas son capaces de hacer, la inteligencia artificial (IA) plantea nuevos retos a los directivos, desde entender esta tecnología en constante evolución hasta darle un uso práctico o resolver los dilemas éticos asociados a sus crecientes cualidades humanas. Para muchos, se trata de un mundo completamente nuevo. ¿Cómo deben prepararse los directivos para afrontarlo?Starting at €8.20
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How AI Will - and Won't - Change the Way You Manage
Canals, Jordi; Cassiman, Bruno; Elvira, Marta; Sieber, Sandra; Raes, AnneloesArticle ART-3203-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyDigitalization, big data, machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence are reshaping industries, making once strong business models obsolete, growing new enterprises with different capabilities and skill sets, disrupting companies and communities, and ushering in social change. What are the key issues for leadership, governance and management? What new competencies are needed? How should executives respond? In this article, IESE profess...Starting at €8.20
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GAS GAS
García Pont, Carlos; García Solé, CarlosCase ASN-51-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyKTM, an international leader in off-road motorcycles, proposed for GAS GAS to manufacture trial motorcycle models for its company. The brand, GAS GAS, which has 50% of the global trial motorcycle market, considers the strategic pros and cons of entering into this agreement.Starting at €8.20
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Vodafone AirTouch: The Acquisition of Mannesmann
Canals, JordiCase ASE-403-EEconomicsThe case presents the strategic, financial and cultural dimensions of the hostile takeover bid that Vodafone AirTouch launched on November 1999 to gain control of Mannesmann, the German industrial conglomerate. It allows discussion of industry changes and strategic choices for Vodafone AirTouch, and an analysis of the proposed acquisition, taking into account strategic, financial and cultural factors.Starting at €8.20
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Esasa (Española de Señalización del Automóvil, S.A.)
Fraguas, Rafael; García Pont, Carlos; Rodríguez-Llauder, María DoloresCase DG-1148Leadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Cellnex: un proyecto de crecimiento
Canals, JordiCase SM-1662Corporate Governance, StrategyEste caso muestra los retos a los que tuvo que enfrentarse Cellnex en el año 2015 tras sus importantes inversiones en emplazamientos de telecomunicaciones y la posible OPV. Cellnex era una unidad de negocio de Abertis con competencias tecnológicas especializadas en tres áreas: transmisión y difusión de señal de radio y televisión (broadcasting), gestión de servicios de infraestructuras para transmisión de datos y voz de telefonía móvil, y otros s...Starting at €8.20
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Amadeus: Boosting Long-Term Growth
Roger Masclans; Canals, JordiCase SM-1691-ECorporate Governance, Innovation and Change, StrategyAmadeus, founded in 1988, had become the largest technology service provider for the travel & tourism (T&T) industry and one of the world's largest software companies, thanks to its global distribution system and its ability to adapt to a changing market. Thirty years later, in the summer of 2018, the company was facing a turning point, one of several in its history. That July, Amadeus CEO Luis Maroto was preparing a meeting with the board of dir...Starting at €8.20
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Multinational organization: the middle manager
García-Pandiello J. M.; García Pont, CarlosTechnical Note DGN-618-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note combines three levels of analysis in an effort to contribute to knowledge of the management of multinational companies. First, it describes the organizational forms that multinational companies are adopting in response to the competitive pressures to which they find themselves exposed. Second, adopting the viewpoint of the subsidiaries, it analyses how the subsidiaries respond to these pressures. And third, it discusses the ro...Starting at €8.20