Publications

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

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

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

01 Dec 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

control. In your September issue, I noted that Professor Lynn Paine and several others are finally grappling with these issues, anticipated by Professor Lodge, in cases, meetings, and books. Hampton Terry (OPM 3, 1979) Valencia, Spain View Details

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

01 Sep 2017
News

Research Brief: As the Wind Blows

scale up globally, and the 1990s saw lasting social and policy shifts in Germany and Spain that encouraged their entry into the wind game. By 1996, the largest wind energy companies in the world included one US, two German, and five... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

March 2021
Article

On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks

By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito

We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate... View Details

Keywords: Credit Supply Shocks; Bank Lending Channel; Input-output Linkages; Output; Mechanisms; Trade Credits; Price Effects; Economics; Credit; System Shocks; Employment; Investment; Spain

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June 2013
Case

Multiasistencia: Redefining the Relationship with Its Service Professionals

By: F. Asis Martinez-Jerez, Maria Garcia Perez and Katherine M. Miller

Multiasistencia, a major Spanish BPO of insurance repairs, is changing the relational contract with its service professionals from a referral model to a guaranteed workload one. View Details

Keywords: Outsourcing; Incentives; Relational Contracts; Business Model; Motivation and Incentives; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Contracts; Insurance Industry; Spain

October 2011 (Revised November 2014)
Teaching Note

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F)

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain

June 2010
Teaching Note

Ebro Puleva (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman

Teaching Note for 510026. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Financial Crisis; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain

October 2009 (Revised March 2012)
Teaching Note

Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm? (TN)

By: Diego A. Comin

Teaching Note for [709021]. View Details

Keywords: Spain

February 2008
Case

Moët Hennessy España

By: Tiziana Casciaro, Vincent Dessain and Elena Corsi

Since being appointed CEO of Moët Hennessy España (MHE), the Spanish subsidiary of the wine & spirits business of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Otano had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain