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3 Keys to Shockproof Your Global Supply Chain
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-3095-EService and Operations Management, StrategyAs the world shifts to a less stable geopolitical structure, executives may find themselves ill-equipped to handle critical events, from terrorist attacks to civil unrest, which could disrupt supply chains and put operations at risk. Despite growing tensions in the world and the increasing fragility of global supply chains, management teams don't seem to pay sufficient attention to geopolitical threats, for a variety of reasons. This article expl...Starting at €8.20
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Tres claves para blindar la cadena de suministro internacional
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-3095Service and Operations Management, StrategyEn un mundo con una estructura geopolítica cada vez más inestable, los directivos pueden sentirse poco preparados para gestionar atentados terroristas, disturbios y otros acontecimientos capaces de interrumpir la cadena de suministro y poner en riesgo las operaciones. Y es que, pese al aumento de las tensiones geopolíticas y de la fragilidad de las cadenas de suministro, los equipos directivos parecen prestar escasa atención a tales amenazas. En ...Starting at €8.20
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APY Art Centre Collective: Taking Indigenous Art to the City
Theodore L. Hill; Sheri Lambert; Kathryn ReadyCase IVEY-9B21M019-EStrategyIn early 2019, just a year after opening a gallery in Sydney, Australia, the elders of the APY Art Centre Collective proposed opening a second gallery in Adelaide, a much smaller city. The first year in Sydney had been profitable, in part due to an aggressive digital presence. The Collective had some seed money, an offer of a small gallery space, and the draw of serving a large number of the APY community who were residents in Adelaide. But the A...Starting at €8.20
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El arte de formar pares de ases
Vollmann, Thomas; Cordon, CarlosArticle ART-1534Service and Operations Management, Strategy"El poder del dos" es un proceso eficaz para convertir las relaciones tradicionales entre proveedores y clientes en colaboraciones óptimas. Para empezar se ha de gestionar los factores que impulsan la relación, no los resultados. En lugar del método de compras clásico, basado en la reducción de costes y la negociación agresiva, funcionaría mejor si las empresas identificaran a sus socios clave -los llamados "pares de ases"- y se centraran después...Starting at €8.20
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Mithilasmita: Can Traditional Art Be Preserved Through Intellectual Property Protection Only
Ankur Joshi; S.K. TapasviCase IVEY-9B14M135-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn a visit to her ancestral village in India, an entrepreneur found that maintaining the sanctity of traditional Madhubani paintings was no longer something that artists considered worthwhile. In the name of contemporary art, the traditional style of this world-famous Indian art was being distorted. However, artists were willing to switch back to traditional techniques of creating art as long as their livelihood needs were met. In late 2010, Mith...Starting at €8.20
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Art Feeds: Scaling a Non-profit Organization
Colleen Sharen; Tess WiddifieldCase IVEY-9B14M159-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early June 2013, the executive director of Art Feeds, which provided therapeutic art and creative education to school children to help them achieve mental and emotional well-being, needed to make a recommendation to her board about whether to expand the current operations in Joplin, Missouri, to Moore, Oklahoma, after a devastating tornado in Moore. She needed to determine whether the organization had the resources required to expand successfu...Starting at €8.20
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L'Atelier Art Lounge: Times of Uncertainty
Randa Salamoun; Bettina BastianCase IVEY-9B14M139-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn January 31, 2014, the founder and chief executive officer of L’Atelier Art Lounge, an art workshop with branches in Bahrain and Lebanon, faces numerous challenges: not only whether to grow the business but how to achieve a reasonable work-life balance. Political instability associated with the Arab Spring led her to close one of her shops in Bahrain, but she went ahead with opening a second in Beirut where there are few leisure activities avai...Starting at €8.20
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Perna Arts: Managing the Complexity of Creativity and Commerce
Kajari MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B14M098-EStrategyPerna Arts is a movie production company that has gradually branched into related businesses straddling distribution, exhibition, programming and education. The company was among the first to go public after the movie business attained industry status in India. It was also one of the first to recruit a professional manager as its chief executive officer to put in place processes, systems, performance metrics and procedures aligned to its strategi...Starting at €8.20
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The Art of Social Entrepreneurship: Dakshina Chitra and Madras Crafts Foundation (MFC) in India
Oana Branzei; Sonia MehrotraCase IVEY-9B12C005-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe case traces the milestones of a 26-year history of a social entrepreneur creating a social enterprise, Madras Craft Foundation (MCF). The story leads up to a three-decade retrospective on the role social ventures play in our lives. Based on the entrepreneur’s critical reflection, the case shows how the paths of the social entrepreneur and the social enterprise became closely interwoven. After MCF had been self-sufficient for three years, the ...Starting at €8.20
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Robert's Center of Performing Arts
James A. Erskine; Felix GernburdCase IVEY-9B08M023-EStrategyRobert's Center of Performing Arts (RCPA), founded and owned by Robert Gernburd, was a music school. In addition to individual instrument lessons and group lessons in music theory and music history, the RCPA sold second-hand pianos. It was difficult to find a supplier of used pianos but after a great deal of research, Gernburd found a supplier in Japan. Recently, an invoice containing supplier information had been temporarily misplaced. Since the...Starting at €8.20