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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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La reestructuración del sistema local de salud, de financiamiento y modelo asistencial: el caso de Camaragibe
Levcovitz E.; Machado de Souza H.; Sánchez, J.; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-999Service and Operations ManagementEl caso describe el proceso de aplicación del nuevo sistema de financiamiento y de modelo asistencial en el Municipio de Camaragibe en el Nordeste de Brasil, en el marco de la reestructuración del Sistema Básico de Salud Brasileño, mostrando los beneficios e implicaciones en la aplicación del nuevo sistema de asistencia de salud local. También analiza los atributos e inconvenientes en la aplicación de programas de este tipo y sobre todo qué cuida...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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Javier Sánchez and the reforms in the management of Spanish hospitals
Keenov E.; García Prat, Antoni; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1004-EService and Operations ManagementA policymaker in one of the Spanish regional governments has to manage the start-up of a new hospital. This task will force him to make a series of decisions about legal models applicable to hospitals, financing, human resources policies and mechanisms for organizing hospital care and coordinating it with primary care. The alternatives considered reflect the main options for reforming or transforming hospital management systems that are currently...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
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Nils Baker
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Call, NathanCase DARDEN-QA-0793-EDecision AnalysisThis very short and seemingly straightforward case is an efficient vehicle for exploring the nuances of hypothesis testing via regression modeling and t-tests in the context of an MBA or advanced undergraduate analytics course.Starting at €8.20
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Javier Sánchez y las reformas en la gestión de hospitales
Keenov E.; García Prat, Antoni; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1004Service and Operations ManagementUn responsable político del gobierno de una de las regiones españolas se enfrenta a la puesta en marcha de un nuevo hospital. Esta tarea le pone ante la necesidad de tomar una serie de decisiones sobre modelos jurídicos aplicables a los hospitales, financiación, política de recursos humanos y mecanismos de organización de la asistencia hospitalaria y su coordinación con la asistencia primaria. Las alternativas reflejan las principales opciones de...Starting at €8.20