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Intermountain Health Care (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Edmondson, Amy C.; Feldman, Laura R.Case HBS-604S16Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making and the care process itself, with the aim of boosting physician productivity and improving care quality, while saving money. This case explores the challenges facing Brent James, e...Starting at €8.20
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Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One - Multimedia
Mikes, AnetteTeaching Note HBS-111036-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for 110707.Starting at €0.00
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Adoption of IFRS in Ethiopia
Hawkins, David F.; Senbetta, ShaniCase HBS-112010-EAccounting and ControlEthiopia lacks the institutional resources to adopt full IFRS so opts for IFRS for small & medium entities.Starting at €8.20
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Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging
Shih, WillyCase HBS-613024-EStrategySome technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business was built on the sale of a complex manufactured product - color photographic film that was exceedingly difficult to manufacture - with correspondingly high barriers to entry. Over ...Starting at €8.20
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Global Unichip Corporation A
Shih, Willy; Chien, Chen-FuCase HBS-613048-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a design services company that acts as a front-end to TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to utilize the latest technology. In acting as an aggregator, it was also able to capture scale benefits. But it saw a...Starting at €8.20
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CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision
Shih, Willy; Pierson, Margaret; Lau, DawnCase HBS-613029-EEconomicsThis case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests with national priorities, with a strong focus on the adoption of research outputs. The Light Metals Flagship (LMF) was one of six flagships established in 2003, and its goal was to ...Starting at €8.20
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Global Unichip Corporation (B)
Shih, Willy; Chien, Chen-FuCase HBS-613049-EStrategySupplement for case 613048Starting at €5.74
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AmTran Technology Ltd.
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-Cheng; Robinson, KarenCase HBS-613069-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and manufac...Starting at €8.20
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Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency
Toffel, Michael W.; Fabrizio, Kira; van Sice, StephanieCase HBS-613054-EService and Operations ManagementGroom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial manufacturing sectors, the seven-year-old company must now decide whether to continue expanding within these segments or transition into commercial retail and office buildings, which...Starting at €8.20
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Publish or Protect? (Spanish version)
Shih, Willy; Chai, SenCase HBS-615S15Service and Operations ManagementShould they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could patent them? They wish to preserve their freedom to practice, but they are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group's R&D investments or alternately interfere with its freedom to operate.Starting at €8.20