Managing firms in crisis and restructuring

Through six interactive presentations, this course offers in-depth case studies drawn from the lecturer’s experience leading companies of various sizes and industries at critical turning points. Each session demonstrates a wide range of essential management skills and tools, emphasizing their consistent and systematic application during challenging phases of corporate development, including crisis management and restructuring.
Designed for upper-year students, this course assumes a solid foundation of theoretical knowledge and the ability to engage with practical examples. 

This course is suitable for second-year and higher undergraduate (BA) students, as well as graduate (MA) and Ph.D. students.

Thursdays, 5 pm to 6.50 pm

13.02.2025    Restructuring of the production plant and its transformation into a standard, customer-oriented company (chemical industry)
27.02.2025    A company in a complex situation requiring a change of strategy (chemical industry)
13.03.2025    Foreign market entry strategy (healthcare)
27.03.2025    Restructuring of the hospital
10.04.2025    Differences between the restructuring of a healthcare distributor (products) and a travel agency (services)
24.04.2025    Optimization of marketing processes

Dr. Ing. Ivan Oliva

... is an expert with many years of experience in the areas of:
•    Corporate governance, leadership, management
•    Strategy, restructuring, crisis management, start-up
•    Financial, personnel and administrative management, operations and legislation
•    Corporate, integration, consolidation and economic stabilization

With extensive experience as a crisis manager. He worked in international corporations (U.S., German, French, Italian, and Polish), mostly as CEO responsible for the corporations' activities in Central and Eastern Europe. In the Czech Republic he has led restructuring and strategic initiatives for companies including Polymer Institut Brno, SPOLANA a.s. Neratovice, companies within the PKN ORLEN group, Nemocnice Nymburk, and Nemocnice na Homolce, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Management and Business Economics from the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT), Prague, and is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at Stanford University, USA Program, Stanford University (USA)

Jankovcova 23, Praha 7 Holešovice

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