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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Operational Transformation
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1400-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for general management courses emphasizing operations strategy and senior leadership. Senior leadership in a global manufacturing company must respond to the critical directive to achieve a 25% cost reduction. Under the direction of an advisory firm, an operational transformation strategy is developed and implementation proceeds in the company's 28 sites. Elements of the transformational program, including leadership challenges and pr...Starting at €8.20
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The Perfect Storm: A Low-Performing Biotech Plant
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1463-EService and Operations ManagementFor the past 12 months, a major pharmaceutical company had rolled out a comprehensive set of cultural changes and breakthrough lean-process activities that were instigated by the need to cut nearly 25% of costs across its key global production facilities. The cultural changes and breakthrough lean-process activities called for aggressive action, and company leadership thought that the company’s cost reduction goal could only be achieved through o...Starting at €8.20
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Transformation at the Site Level
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1402-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for general management courses emphasizing lean operations strategy implementation and large-scale change management across a network of global manufacturing facilities. In this case, site-level leadership, including senior, midlevel, and supervisory positions, must respond to a critical corporate directive to achieve a 25% cost reduction. Under the direction of an advisory firm, the development and implementation of an operational Tr...Starting at €8.20
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Shrimp Commodity Systems Learning Lab: Guidance Notes
Landel, Robert D.; Soderquist, ChrisTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1428-EService and Operations ManagementThis technical note supports the “Shrimp Commodity Systems Learning Lab” (SCSLL) simulation (UVA-OM-1405S) used in environmental sustainability or systems thinking courses. It offers detailed guidance for the progression of interactive learning experiences in the SCSLL. Through the simulation, users develop an understanding of the issues facing the shrimp industry system and how policy alternatives could improve the industry’s typical boom-and-bu...Starting at €8.20
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Southeastern Mills: The Improvement Journey (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1419-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for courses in operations design and performance management. Owners and employees of this company spent considerable effort developing a unique, extremely successful high-performance work place culture based on trust and a decentralized structure and little direct supervision from middle and upper management. Now management wants to consider blending a Lean or Six Sigma program into their work-place culture. A Business Process Improve...Starting at €8.20
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Kim Park (B): Liabilities
Hawkins, David F.; Miller, Gregory S.; Narayanan, V.G.Case HBS-110018-EAccounting and ControlA series of caselets exploring the accounting for liabilities.Starting at €5.74
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Kim Park (B): Liabilities, Teaching Note
Hawkins, David F.; Narayanan, V.G.; Miller, Gregory S.Teaching Note HBS-110021-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for [110018].Starting at €0.00
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How to Talk to Investors-Through the Press
Miller, Gregory S.Article HBS-F0801K-EFinanceIf you're seeking attention from investors and analysts, the press can be a convenient megaphone. Cultivating relationships with the media takes patience, but the payoffs in both good times and bad are priceless.Starting at €8.20
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Navigating Turbulent Waters: Glitnir Bank's Communication Challenge During a Macroeconomic Crisis
Kimbrough, Michael D.; Miller, Gregory S.; Dessain, Vincent; Damgaard Jensen, AneCase HBS-107050-EFinanceGlitnir Bank is an Icelandic company following an aggressive growth strategy that relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements of a communications strategy, including the role of the media and analysts. Class discussion will focus on creating infrastructure that will increase the ban...Starting at €8.20
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Congestion in Café 67
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanCase DARDEN-OM-1550-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise the manager of Café 67 asks for help dealing with the large queues of students during the Darden school's second coffee (approximately 20 minutes) who all want lunch at the same time.Starting at €8.20