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Christmas Eve (A, B, C, D)
Ribera, JaumeCase P-1034-EService and Operations ManagementThe Krank family have to organize a Christmas party and decorate their house in a very short period of time. The exercise involves planning these activities as a project, taking into account the impact that various other events may have on those activities.Starting at €8.20
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Unreal Options (Spanish version)
Carr, Nicholas G.Article HBS-F0212CStrategyManaging corporate projects as though they were a portfolio of financial options appears to be an exact science. But it's not. That's because decisions to drop projects are never made as objectively as decisions to sell shares.Starting at €8.20
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Project Simulation
Grasas, Alex; Ribera, JaumeTechnical Note PN-429-EService and Operations ManagementThis note allows the simulation of a PERT-CPM network system, using Montecarlo techniques. It has been limited in scope, and it deals only with Beta or triangular, Normal and Uniform duration probability density functions. The workbook assumes the basic CPM data on activities durations and precedence relations have been entered and saved in a standard MS-Project format. The user is expected to import the data from the corresponding MS-Project fil...Starting at €8.20
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Nota Tecnica en Direccion de Proyectos (Spanish version)
Robert Klassen; P. Fraser JohnsonCase IVEY-9A98DS12Service and Operations ManagementLos fundamentos en la administracion de proyectos son descriptos y aplicados en un simple problema didactico. Tambien se presentan los pasos necesarios para la administracion de proyectos, incluyendo el caculo del camino critico, usando CPM.Starting at €8.20
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Why Bad Projects Are So Hard to Kill (Spanish version)
Royer, IsabelleArticle HBS-R0302CStrategyEven at the prototype stage, experts were saying the technology was obsolete. Yet, in the face of tepid consumer response, the company stubbornly kept increasing production capacity and developing new models. By the time it was finally killed, the initiative had cost the company an astounding $580 million and had tied up resources for 14 years. The product was RCA's SelectaVision videodisc recorder, and its story is hardly unique. Companies make ...Starting at €8.20
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Enbos
Bol, J.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1060-EService and Operations ManagementEnbos was the successor to a state-owned Dutch energy company that was partly privatized in 1994, although the state continued to control energy prices and the geographic market to which it could be supplied. From 2003 the energy sector would be wholly privatized and companies would have to compete for customers. The leader of the software implementation and development project at Enbos organizes and supervises the team whose job is to deal with ...Starting at €8.20
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Why Good Projects Fail Anyway (Spanish version)
Matta, Nadim F.; Ashkenas, Ronald N.Article HBS-R0309HLeadership and People ManagementBig projects fail at an astonishing rate--more than half the time, by some estimates. It's not hard to understand why. Complicated long-term projects are customarily developed by a series of teams working along parallel tracks. If managers fail to anticipate everything that might fall through the cracks, those tracks will not converge successfully at the end to reach the goal. Take a companywide CRM project. Traditionally, one team might analyze ...Starting at €8.20
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They Bought In. Now They Want to Bail Out. (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
McNulty, Eric; Leonard, Nathaniel; McAfee, Andrew; Gilway, Barry J.; Freeland, JohnArticle HBS-R0312A-EService and Operations ManagementChief Technology Officer Barry Golding is meeting with Mathews & Co.'s department heads to ask for another round of investment so he can begin implementing customer relationship management software at the menswear chain. For months, he has been the CRM project's cheerleader, and it is Barry whose reputation is at stake. He quickly loses control of the meeting. One department head is disappointed that so few of her wish list items are in Barry's l...Starting at €8.20
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Management Lessons from Mars (Spanish version)
MacCormack, AlanArticle HBS-F0405ALeadership and People ManagementNASA's fabled Faster, Better, Cheaper initiative sped up the agency's spacecraft development. But when missions began to fail, it was faulty organizational learning--not hardware--that was to blame.Starting at €8.20
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Implementation of SAP at Celsa (A) - Teaching Note
Sieber, Sandra; Valor Sabatier, JosepTeaching Note SIT-9-EKnowledge and CommunicationNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case SI-139-E.Starting at €0.00