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Market Failures (Spanish version)
Anand, Bharat N.; Khanna, Tarun; Rivkin, Jan W.Case HBS-704S07StrategyExamines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy.Starting at €8.20
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British Motorcycle Industry at a Crossroads (Spanish version)
Rivkin, Jan W.Case HBS-715S07StrategyBy 1975, the collapse of the British motorcycle industry is nearly complete. Only one British manufacturer, NVT, remains in operation. In this setting, the British government commissions the Boston Consulting Group to identify and evaluate strategic alternatives for NVT and its suppliers. This case summarizes what the consultants discovered as they sized up the global motorcycle industry and Britain's place in it.Starting at €8.20
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Choosing the United States
Porter, Michael E.; Rivkin, Jan W.Article HBS-R1203F-EStrategyA location decision is, in many respects, a referendum on a nation's competitiveness. When a company decides, say, to build a new plant in China rather than in the United States, it is effectively voting on the question of which country can best enable its success in the global marketplace. Over the past three decades, business activities have become increasingly mobile, and more and more countries have become viable contenders for them. But new ...Starting at €8.20
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Process analysis: Terms, basic concepts and tools
Gómez del Sol, R.Technical Note IIST-PIN-25-E-EService and Operations ManagementFirst, the document lists the way companies compete and the operational capabilities they need for competing. The example of a custom framing business is used to explain useful concepts and tools in the analysis of processes. A process flowchart is used to define the concepts of operations and resources. Operation times, resource occupation times, as well as process and cycle times, are defined using a table that includes operations, resources, a...Starting at €8.20
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Análisis de Procesos: Términos, conceptos básicos y herramientas
Gómez del Sol, R.Technical Note IIST-PIN-25Service and Operations ManagementEn primer lugar, se relaciona la forma de competir de una empresa y las capacidades operativas que se necesitan. Se usa el ejemplo de una empresa que enmarca cuadros sobre pedido para explicar los conceptos y herramientas que son útiles en el análisis de procesos. Se usa el diagrama de flujo de procesos para definir los conceptos de operaciones y recursos. A través de la tabla de operaciones, recursos y tiempos, se definen los tiempos de operació...Starting at €8.20
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Lean Airbus Operations. La experiencia de la Planta de Puerto Real (Cádiz-España)
Gómez del Sol, R.Case IIST-PI-140Service and Operations ManagementEl caso describe la experiencia de la planta de Airbus Puerto Real en los dos primeros proyectos de implantación de Lean. Las reticencias iniciales de los mandos y trabajadores de la planta, la metodología de trabajo empleada, los equipos de trabajo y las áreas de mejora abordadas. Finalmente, el director de la planta se cuestiona qué tendrán que hacer y cómo, para conseguir los resultados en los plazos que la dirección de operaciones de la compa...Starting at €8.20