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Zara y su familia. Nota del Instructor
Garrido Martínez, Enrique; Lora Martin Mª IsabelCase IIST-PINT-159Service and Operations ManagementEn 2015, Inditex se encontraba entre las empresas con mayor crecimiento a nivel mundial. Según su Presidente, Pablo Isla, su presencia internacional y su modelo de negocio eran las claves que habían permitido al grupo incrementar su facturación de forma sostenida. Isla sostenía que el techo aún estaba lejos. El caso describe su modelo de negocio, basado en unas operaciones excelentes en términos de rapidez y flexibilidad. Se profundiza en cómo ha...Starting at €8.20
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Swarovski Crystal: The Polybag Challenge: Design for Supply Chain
Sachon, Marc; Yankovic, NataliaCase P-1135-EService and Operations ManagementSwarovski Crystal, the largest strategic business unit (SBU) of Swarovski Group, has to assess the feasibility changing the packaging of its products in the upstream part of its supply chain (i.e., prior to sales) to polybags instead of using the traditional dark blue gift boxes. In doing so, management has to consider not only the benefits (primarily in operations) but also the challenges (primarily in customer perception).Starting at €8.20
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Spartan Building Products
P. Fraser JohnsonCase IVEY-9B15D009-EService and Operations ManagementThe logistics analyst at Spartan Building Products, a large, national distributor of building materials, needs to prepare a report analyzing the company’s logistics practices. Management is particularly concerned about the high cost of servicing customer deliveries. Students are asked to evaluate factors contributing to the logistics problems at Spartan, including freight costs and the sales mix. Students will analyze the cost implications of sup...Starting at €8.20
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Zara and its family
Garrido Martínez, Enrique; Lora Martin Mª IsabelCase IIST-PI-159-E-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2015 Inditex was among the highest growing firms worldwide. According to incumbent Chairman, Pablo Isla, its international presence and its business model were key to the group's sustained growth in sales. Isla stated that the ceiling was still far. The case describes its business model and its operations, and lays out the company's future challenges.Starting at €8.20
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Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company in a New Era of Brand Building
Rubin, James R.; Moriarty, Brian; Mehlsak, AlisonCase DARDEN-BC-0262-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case is used in Darden's course elective on managing corporate communications. It offers students a concise history of The Coca-Cola Company's (TCCC's) brand history before focusing on the importance that TCCC's Office of Sustainability currently plays in the communications strategy for the brand. The case analyzes how the Office of Sustainability works both locally and globally to partner in innovative ways with stakeholders along the entir...Starting at €8.20
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Apple and Its Suppliers: Corporate Social Responsibility
Sun Hye Lee; Michael J. Mol; Kamel MellahiCase IVEY-9B16M040-EStrategyIn a 2014 documentary, the multinational technology company Apple Inc. was implicated in alleged human rights violations at Pegatron, a large Chinese supplier that assembled Apple's iPhones. The allegations followed similar, well-publicized violations in 2009 at another China-based Apple supplier. Although Apple had promised to improve its practices, doing so had clearly proven to be a difficult task. How should Apple respond to these new allegat...Starting at €8.20
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Honda Canada (A): Tsunami and Communications
Mary Weil; Dina Ribbink; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16D004-EService and Operations Management, StrategyHonda Canada was coping with a communications and supply chain crisis after a triple disaster — an earthquake followed by a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown — that hit Japan in March 2011. Honda’s worldwide supply chain was characterized by a just-in-time, single-source approach, wherein the supplier for each component provided the best quality at the lowest price. The approach normally ensured economies of scale but now, in an abnormal time, Honda...Starting at €8.20
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Honda Canada (B): Tsunami and Sourcing Disruption
Mary Weil; Dina Ribbink; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16D005-EService and Operations Management, StrategySupplement to be used with 9B16D004.Starting at €5.74
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Jerónimo Martins Agribusiness: From to Supermarket to Farm
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio;Case IIST-MI-149-E-EStrategyJerónimo Martins Agro-Alimentar (JMA) was a new business unit oriented towards dairy, cattle and aquaculture production that the Portuguese food distribution group Jerónimo Martins was developing in March 2015. It was in line with the Group’s top management strategy of backward integration into the primary sector, aimed at securing its supply needs of some products by 2020. However, the 2015 acute price crisis in the European dairy industry made ...Starting at €8.20
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Jerónimo Martins Agribusiness:From To Supermarket To Farm. Iinstructor Note
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio;Teaching Note IIST-MITN-149-E-EStrategyTeaching Note for product MI-149-EStarting at €0.00