Publications

04 Sep 2019
News

Turning Point: Step Change

Everett Spain (DBA 2014) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Everett Spain (DBA 2014) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) When I think back on different moments that have shaped who I am, there are a few that stand... View Details

Web

Request more information | HBS Courses | HBS Online

the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome & Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Sudan View Details

Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

and the South Sandwich Islands South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey... View Details

September 2019 (Revised July 2021)
Case

Gap, Inc., 2019

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2000, The Gap, Inc. (Gap) was the world’s largest player in specialty fashion retailing, and companies such as Inditex of Spain, H&M of Sweden, and Fast Retailing of Japan were less than a quarter of Gap’s size. But after two decades of growth, Gap’s progress... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Fast Fashion; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States

March 1997 (Revised August 2017)
Case

Compagnie du Froid, S.A.

By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila

The owner of an ice cream company must evaluate the performance of three regional businesses. To do the analysis, students must flex the budget by seasonal temperature; calculate revenue, volume, price, and efficiency variances; analyze the effects of transfer prices;... View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Investment Return; Performance Evaluation; Revenue; Budgets and Budgeting; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; France; Spain; Italy

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

million in 2021, according to Euromonitor, a drop in the bucket of the $100 billion American beer market. The picture is quite different in Europe, where low- and no-alcohol beers and wines are already a multibillion-dollar industry. Countries like View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

December 2022 (Revised May 2023)
Case

Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution

By: Juan Alcácer and Emer Moloney

At the end of 2019, Ignacio Galán, the Chairman and CEO of the world's third largest utility, Iberdrola, reflected on his almost 20 years at the company. He managed a portfolio of three very different businesses, each with their own specific opportunities and... View Details

March 2018
Case

EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box

By: Willy C. Shih and Esel Çekin

This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages capacity planning. Its busiest routes linked motor vehicle assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

- my place in the world," remarks Instructor Francisco de Asís Martínez- Jerez (MBA '91). The native of Spain expects to finish his Ph.D. in business economics this spring and has taught the first-year MBA course Financial... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Mar 2019
News

A Model of Drive and Impact

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

27 Mar 2023
News

A Sporting Chance

to Spain, which at the time had no similar programs. For $12,000, he took 20 American instructors to Spain for a week, which he says was a huge success. Over the years, one week extended to two, then four. Today, almost 25 years later,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2006
News

Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS

Shanghai at the China Europe International Business School. With the third module completed at IESE Business School in Spain in April, HBS will host the final session, and its 34 participants, later this month. “CEOs in China must... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA

their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2003
News

Unsung Hero

On September 11, 2001, Celina Realuyo (MBA 2000), a private banker at Goldman Sachs in London, watched in horror on her office TV as the attacks in New York City and Washington unfolded. A former U.S. Foreign Service officer who had worked at U.S. embassies in View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 May 2013
News

Experience of a Lifetime

Growing up in rural North Carolina between two towns with fewer than 300 people combined, Duke Buchan dreamed big. After living in Spain during high school and college, and earning a BA in economics and Spanish at the University of North... View Details

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

He's been called "the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen" for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a parfait glass. Each year, some 2 million hopeful diners vie to be one of the fifty customers... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

December 2023
Teaching Note

Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The TN provides conceptual background and a suggested teaching plan for using the HBS case 724-404. It discusses the concepts and issues related to the main teaching objectives of the case, i.e. the nature and effective structuring of cluster-based economic... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Government and Politics; Policy; Development Economics; Spain

October 2018
Case

BBVA: Corporate Governance & Corporate Strategy

By: Krishna Palepu and Jordi Canals

BBVA is a very successful Spanish bank facing a number of challenges as a result of significant industry and regulatory changes. The company takes pride in its board structure and excellent corporate governance. The Chairman of the Board was wondering how best to... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Strategy; Change Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Banking Industry; Spain

June 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Inditex: 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In the 11 years since its public offering, Inditex and its flagship brand, Zara, had expanded into 86 countries, achieved $21.6 billion in revenue, and become the largest specialty apparel retailer in the world. In marked contrast to the general malaise of the Bolsa de... View Details

Keywords: Fashion; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Fashion Industry; Spain