Wolfgang Keller graduated from Harvard Business School at the age of 34 and soon after experienced instantaneous business success in the food manufacturing industry. Keller‚ drawn to turn around opportunities departed the food manufacturing industry for Konigsbrau brewing. Keller accepted the role of managing director of Konigsbrau subsidiary in the Ukraine. Keller applied his hands on style of management‚ which brought earning success to the suffering subsidiary. Keller seemed to be on the successful
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I. Introduction & Problem Definition Königsbräu A.G.‚ which was a Munich-based brewer company‚ has subsidiary in Ukrainian. Wolfgang Keller who is the managing director of Ukrainian subsidiary with having succeeded as a hands-on manager‚ worked for food manufacturing companies in the past. He generally took his success with effective solutions such as changing marketing strategy‚ reconfiguring the sales force‚ hiring a new top-management and many others. As a result of this effort‚ he set one’s
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Individual Case Analysis Assignment II: “Wolfgang Keller at Königsbräu-TAK” MGT 400- Monday 6-8:45 Chelsea Glovis a. What is your assessment of Brodsky’s performance? Please be specific. In my opinion‚ I believe that Brodsky is one of those individuals who is so intelligent his personality and social interactions suffer. Keller and Brodsky have very different approaches to problems‚ in addition to being different nationalities‚ this creates many of the problems that they face. Keller looks
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Wolfgang Keller at Konigsbrau-TAK analysis Wolfgang Keller was a hands on manager who making all of the decisions necessary to turn them around as quickly as possible. He turned a failing food products manufacturer into a profitable company and saved another subsidy of the company within two years. In less than three years Keller changed the marketing strategy‚ restructured the sales force and these bring Keller a high reputation as a successful hands on manager. Also‚ Keller has tremendous capacity
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Nathan Johnson Case Analysis MGT 400 – 10/13/09 Wolfgang Keller at Konigsbrau-TAK (A) 1) What is your assessment of Brodsky’s performance? Please be specific. The first point of concern regarding Brodsky’s performance that I saw was Keller’s description of how long it took Brodsky to complete a project or task. As Keller highlighted Brodsky’s great analytical skills with regards to how he redesigned the sales force organization and the development of a comprehensive set of information and control
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Wolfgang Keller at Konigsbrau-Krayina” Introduction Wolfgang Keller‚ managing director of Konigsbrau-Krayina‚ the Ukrainian subsidiary of the German beer company Konigsbrau‚ faces a complicated managerial dilemma. His subordinate‚ Bohdan Khmelnytsky‚ is a talented and experienced commercial director who is not meeting his goals appropriately. Keller is an action-oriented manager who likes to use a hands-on approach when dealing with problems. He has the potential to be a great leader as evidence
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501 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Wolfgang Keller at Königsbrӓu-TAK(A) Case Report 22.10.2009 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Königsbrӓu-TAK was one of the best managed and profitable premium beer companies and the Wolfgang Keller became the manager director of Königsbrӓu’s Ukrainian subsidiary which had lately been losing nearly $ 3 million per year. In three years‚ he took initiative and the Ukrainian subsidiary’s earnings increased to $ 7 million per year. Wolfgang Keller was a manager who did value personal
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Abstract Konigsbrau-TAK is a subsidiary based in the Ukraine which was established by Konigsbrau A.G. in order to expand their company. Wolfgang Keller was hired to lead Konigsbrau-TAK. In the three years that he has been in charge‚ the company has gone from an annual 2.9 million Euro loss to a 7 million Euro gain. Dmitri Brodsky is the commercial director of Konigsbrau-TAK. He reports directly to Keller. He brings a great deal of experience and maturity to the company. Unfortunately‚ Keller and Brodsky
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Executive Summary First glancing over the Königsbräu-TAK case many thoughts arose about how to increase efficiency‚ streamline business‚ create better relations‚ in and out of the work place‚ and resolve the problem of the Commercial Department Director‚ Dimitri Brodsky. Brodsky had a multitude of social and management issues when it came to Königsbräu-TAK. Discussed throughout the paper below we outline the issue and support our thoughts with theories discussed upon in class. We formulated a
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Wolfgang Keller Case Analysis MBA-6120 Abstract Wolfgang Keller is a 34 year old graduate of the Harvard Business School. After a fast moving career building a reputation for turning around failing businesses‚ Wolfgang Keller once again found himself facing the challenge of turning around a losing business. This time it was as managing director of the Ukrainian subsidy of the Konigsbrau Brewery. The company was experiencing €2.9 million per year with annual sales of €116 million
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