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The United Fruit Company in Guatemala (Spanish version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Bucheli, MarceloCase HBS-807S06EconomicsExamines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half century, United Fruit had built a large vertically integrated tropical fruit business that owned large banana plantations in the "banana republics" of Central America, including Guatemala. Examines the impact and role of United Fruit in the Guatemalan economy, one of the poorest in the world, and t...Starting at €8.20
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Global Beauty Made in Brazil (Spanish version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-807S26EntrepreneurshipExplores the globalization strategies of Natura, Brazil's largest cosmetics company. Founded in 1969, Natura grew using a direct selling model. Led by its three founders, the firm made distinctive use of Brazil's diversity and became characterized by high ethical and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opene...Starting at €8.20
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Brazil at the Wheel (Spanish Version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.Case HBS-811S19EconomicsSe imparte en el segundo curso de MBA electiva sobre la evolución del Negocio global. Examina los costos y los beneficios de las políticas del gobierno brasileño para fomentar las multinacionales extranjeras para desarrollar una industria del automóvil durante la década de 1950. Una combinación de incentivos y el cierre de mercado se utiliza para atraer la inversión extranjera directa. Volkswagen respondió más positivamente que las empresas estad...Starting at €8.20
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EADS Defense & Security Supply Management
Sachon, Marc; Granero, María; Suzar, NoahCase P-1105-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2009, EADS Defense & Security, the second largest division of EADS, decides to change its supply management strategy. The Chief Procurement Officer of EADS D&S faces the challenge of implementing a new governance model, define a new organizational structure and develop a new divisional sourcing strategy that is aligned with EADS sourcing objective. In doing so, he has to take into account the challenges of working in a very complex, historical...Starting at €8.20
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Car Collision Center, Barcelona
Mitchell, Jordan; Sachon, MarcCase P-1077-EService and Operations ManagementCar Collision Center Barcelona is a business concept developed by a group of MBA students during their MBA. It aims to remedy the market inefficiency of having many small body shops in Barcelona, resulting in higher costs and longer process times. To do so, they want to pool demand for car body work after traffic accidents in a large facility and collaborate with insurance companies. These will benefit from projected lower costs of repair and low...Starting at €8.20
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The Amango Project: Taking Online DVD Rental to Germany
Sachon, MarcCase P-1068-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes an innovative approach to online DVD rental pioneered by Netflix in a sector hampered by short life-cycle products (movies). The industry has a supply chain that is prone to misaligned incentives between echelons, resulting in product shortages and poor customer satisfaction. Amango hopes to import this business concept pioneered by Netflix to Germany. To be able to do so, the company must copy Netflix's operating system and ma...Starting at €8.20
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Call Center Collapse
Sachon, MarcCase P-1066-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes the problems one faces when managing a call center. Big Euro, a British company in the financial services sector, has started operations in the German-speaking market. It has installed a call center and during the first six months of operations customers complain about long waits. Big Euro is following an aggressive expansion strategy in the German market (where it offers some financial tools that are new to the market) and thu...Starting at €8.20
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Historian Geoffrey Jones on why knowledge stays put
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0807H-EStrategyA business historian reminds us that since the nineteenth century, predictions about globalization have been reliably wrong. Despite technology for the fast diffusion of knowledge, information-like wealth-seems to be concentrating even further.Starting at €8.20
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Rise of Corporate Nationality (Spanish version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.Article HBS-F0610AEconomicsThe nationality of global companies has become less ambiguous and more strategically important in recent decades.Starting at €8.20
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Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lluch, AndreaCase HBS-807155-EEconomicsExamines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. Tornquist created a diversified business group, linked to the political elite, which integrated Argentina into the trading and financial networks of the first global economy. Provides an opportunity to understand why Argentina was such a successful economy at this time, and to debate wh...Starting at €8.20