Patrick Turner

This set of two cases describes how two MBA alumni acquired a long-established business in France, and, despite all their efforts to modernise it, grow it and apply best practices as learned in business school (Case A), finally turned it into a loss-making and cash-bleeding company (Case B).

Published 18 Sep 2008

Reference 5527

Topic Entrepreneurship

Region Global

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This set of two cases describes how two MBA alumni acquired a long-established business in France, and, despite all their efforts to modernise it, grow it and apply best practices as learned in business school (Case A), finally turned it into a loss-making and cash-bleeding company (Case B).

Published 18 Jul 2008

Reference 5527

Topic Entrepreneurship

Region Global

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The case describes the launching and early experience of an Internet retailing business. The company quickly runs into problems, and this sparks a series of personality clashes among the managers, leading to a crisis that threatens to force the company to close.

Published 02 Jul 2002

Reference 4988

Topic Entrepreneurship

Industry Retail Internet

Region Europe

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