GUIDES: Insight through Indicators

GUIDES is an easy-to-remember framework that can help business leaders and students to safely and quickly identify, organize, and interpret key economic indicators for a country. Alternatively, it can help you evaluate third-party analyzes and compare those analyzes between countries. In both cases, this framework offers a structured way to complete and communicate the analysis …

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Cabot Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Follow the 12-year career of pharmaceutical salesman Bob Marsh from his hire to his resignation. Marsh has had an uneven career at Cabot Pharmaceuticals and is eventually being asked to resign. After his resignation, some of Marsh’s former customers have complained energetically, and Cabot’s VP of Sales is being asked to do his research and …

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Texas Instruments: Time Products Division

Describes the components of the low-cost Texas Instruments digital clock. The focus is on smooth and efficient operation of the assembly line to meet production costs and delivery requirements.

The Merger of Banca Popolare (A)

Riccardo Paderi, Director of Organization and Operations, was in a meeting with other directors of the bank. They had been summoned to a three-day extraordinary meeting in the west of the country just days before. They had been hearing comments about the possible merger for a few months now, and if this were the case, …

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DRW Technologies

Ed Claiborne is a recently hired Corporate Vice President of Procurement at DRW Technologies, a company that manufactures advanced military systems with 21 plants in the United States. Claiborne was hired by another company in the industry and news of his arrival was announced in an email to company and plant managers and in the …

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