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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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A Note on Queuing Models
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesTechnical Note IVEY-9B19E006-EDecision AnalysisQueues (or waiting lines) are common in modern life. We wait in lines at the campus cafeteria, to board an airplane, in the emergency room, and when we call a company for customer service. We even wait for applications to be initiated and processed by our smartphone processors, and our online orders wait to be fulfilled at companies’ warehouses before being shipped to us. How long we wait in line depends on several factors and parameters. It may ...Starting at €8.20
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Aditya–The Solar Shop: Social Entrepreneurship at the Crossroads - Teaching Note
Nobin Thomas; Joshy JosephTeaching Note IVEY-8B21M069-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B21M069.Starting at €0.00
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Mobile Blood Donor Clinic: A Discrete Event Simulation Model
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B17E010-ECorporate GovernanceIn 2017, while donating blood on campus, a management science graduate student noticed that the mobile blood donor clinic set up at his university’s community centre was a congested tandem queuing system. Finding one-and-one-half hours too long for donors to wait, the student considered how the process could be reduced by at least half an hour. He needed to devise a reasonably precise model to represent the donor flow in the clinic. Using either ...Starting at €8.20
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Ohmycake.in: Scaling Up by Scaling Back
Nobin Thomas; Abhilash G. NambudiriCase IVEY-9B18M201-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2017, the online cake company Ohmycake.in, which was started two years earlier by a young entrepreneur in Kerala, India, ran into trouble after a series of successful experiments. Adding to the company’s problems, customers were becoming more dStarting at €8.20
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Camncloud: Hiring Impasse in a Start-Up
Nobin Thomas; Dr. Swatantra; Irene JohnsonCase IVEY-W34185-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn April 2022, the founder of Camncloud, a pioneer in surveillance service based in New Delhi, India, was facing a dilemma about hiring a potential candidate for his new venture. Camncloud offered an end-to-end remote streaming service targeted primarily at preschools. The company’s founder wanted to use his electronics background to carve a niche segment in India’s competitive technology market, but needed help in achieving that goal. Specifical...Starting at €8.20
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Understanding Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Hotel Booking
Rasha Kashef; Sakariya AhmedCase IVEY-9B19E019-EDecision AnalysisA management science professor had an unpleasant experience with a hotel she stayed at in New York City. Consequently, she wanted to figure out if hotel ratings were enough to recommend a hotel, or if customers’ text reviews could be used as more importanStarting at €8.20
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Understanding Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Hotel Booking - Teaching Note
Rasha Kashef; Sakariya AhmedTeaching Note IVEY-8B19E019-EDecision AnalysisTeaching note for product 9B19E019.Starting at €0.00
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ATREE: Social Entrepreneurship in Vembanad - Teaching Note
Nobin Thomas; Ajith K. Thomas; Irene JohnsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C018-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19C018.Starting at €0.00
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South West Health Centre: Improving Patient Flow in the Intensive Care Unit
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B19E007-EDecision AnalysisHospitals frequently deal with congestion and blockage that affects patient flow and increased costs. In 2018, at University Hospital, part of South West Health Centre, patient flow in the medical surgical intensive care unit seemed to be highly susceptible to congestion, and this was creating ripple effects throughout the hospital and leading to increased costs. The complexity of patient flow presented an opportunity to build a discrete-event si...Starting at €8.20
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Mobile Blood Donor Clinic: A Discrete Event Simulation Model - Teaching Note
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesTeaching Note IVEY-8B17E010-ECorporate GovernanceTeaching note for product 9B17E010.Starting at €0.00