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Negociando una operación de capital riesgo (II): Estructuración del acuerdo e instrumentos contractuales
Segurado, Juan Luis; Roure, JuanTechnical Note EN-11Entrepreneurship, FinanceCuando se trata de estructurar las operaciones, y con independencia de su naturaleza, los inversores de capital riesgo buscan, fundamentalmente, maximizar su retorno, minimizar sus riesgos financieros y cubrirse frente a los posibles conflictos de interés que pueden surgir con los gestores de las compañías en las que invierten. Para ello, negocian la incorporación ?en los acuerdos de inversión? de una serie de mecanismos de control y de asignació...Starting at €8.20
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The IQ Experiment
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0770-EDecision AnalysisThis case describes an IQ experiment in which 66 students, under the direction of their professor, used Excel to generate simulated IQs. The instructions were such that the generated IQs should have come from a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. The sample average IQ, however, was 104.3. Students are asked to use their data-analysis skills to make sense of the results. The data set also contains gender (male or f...Starting at €8.20
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Metodología PDCA para la mejora contínua de los procesos
Moñino, M.; Roure, JuanTechnical Note PN-328Service and Operations ManagementEl objetivo de esta nota técnica es explicar la metodología PDCA («Plan, Do, Check, Act») usada en Hewlett-Packard para la mejora continua de los procesos. Su propósito es que exista una sistemática en la resolución de problemas o en la mejora de procesos, a fin de asegurar que se direccionan las causas de raíz, proporcionando, en definitiva, el camino más corto y más seguro para la resolución del problema o mejora pretendida.Starting at €8.20
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Introducción a la gestión de procesos
Moñino, M.; Roure, JuanTechnical Note PN-327Service and Operations ManagementEl objetivo de esta nota técnica es dar guías para abordar la gestión de procesos en una empresa, reflexionando sobre las siguientes preguntas: ¿Por qué es importante gestionar por procesos? ¿Cuáles son las actividades que ocurren? ¿Cómo inventariarlas? ¿Cuáles son las más importantes? ¿Cómo gestionarlas eficaz y eficientemente? ¿Cómo documentarlas y medirlas? ¿Cómo mejorarlas?Starting at €8.20
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FLORA (B): National
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0755-EDecision AnalysisIn this, the second of a two-case decision analysis series, an entrepreneur must decide whether there are additional benefits from operating in more than one U.S. city. He explores the business model of operating local production facilities in major cities, metro areas with a population of over one million. Going national in year three would allow for a year four launch. Again, the entrepreneur must choose between a discounted and a premium strat...Starting at €5.74
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Bloomex.ca Logistics Optimization
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0760-EDecision AnalysisA Canadian online floral delivery company considers whether to source more flowers from its existing growing locations and which of those would be optimal given its current market. What would be the advantages of opening a logistics facility in Miami? Students must consider the transportation costs per standard box from each origin or transshipment center to each production facility as well as data about the available supply at each origin and pr...Starting at €8.20
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FLORA (A)
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0754-EDecision AnalysisThis case was awarded first place in the INFORMS 2011 case competition. A seasoned Internet retailing entrepreneur considers starting a national floral delivery service to compete with the major U.S. players. Decisions include whether to open a production facility in a single city and begin to deliver there? Which strategy should he use to decide-a premium or a discounted strategy? Ideal for MBA and undergraduate students in decision analysis mod...Starting at €8.20
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La gestión estratégica de los procesos
Moñino, M.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel Ángel; Roure, JuanTechnical Note PN-395Service and Operations ManagementSe comentan los cambios que representan pasar de la gestión tradicional de procesos a la nueva Gestión por Procesos o Gestión Estratégica de Procesos.Starting at €8.20
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Timeshare Exchange Fair (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Sampson, Scott E.; Krass, DmitryCase DARDEN-QA-0709-EDecision AnalysisThis award-winning case series examines how optimization-based decision-making leads to a new business design for a timeshare exchange: an exchange fair. Students model a complex managerial problem as a linear program, identify the types of data needed, and use models to provide decision support. The series covers linear and integer programming, multiple-criteria decision-making, network flow problems, local search heuristics, and Pareto-optimali...Starting at €8.20
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Timeshare Exchange Fair (B)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Sampson, Scott E.; Krass, DmitryCase DARDEN-QA-0710-EDecision AnalysisThis case provides an extension of the A case (UVA-QA-0709) by including two types of owners' requests that were omitted in the A case for simplicity. Solving it requires knowledge of integer programming and how it can be used to reinforce logical conditions. Could be used as an assignment or part of an exam. A supplemental Excel spreadsheet is available (UVA-QA-0709X).Starting at €5.74