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Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Elective Surgery Schedule
Lauren E. Cipriano; Vikram Tiwari; Warren S. Sandberg; Gregory S. ZaricCaso IVEY-9B15E011-EGobierno corporativoIn 2012, the newly appointed director of Surgical Business Analytics has been charged with the task of improving predictions of surgical case volume at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He is provided with 48 weeks of elective surgery schedule data that give the number of surgeries booked on specific dates prior to the surgery day and the actual number performed. Variation in daily operating room volumes is a major pro...Desde 8,20 €
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Shopster.com
Malcolm Munro; Sid L. HuffCaso IVEY-9B07E005-EDirección estratégica, Gobierno corporativo, Iniciativa emprendedora, Tecnologías de la informaciónShopster.com is a Calgary-based e-business company whose business is to assist other individuals or companies in setting up their own retail transactional websites. Shopster differs significantly from ordinary website developers in that retailers are able to select from a huge inventory of saleable products, through Shopster's network of goods providers. Shopster also provides software tools, and expertise, to allow anyone wishing to create an on...Desde 8,20 €
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The Professor Proposes
Gregory S. Zaric; Michael LeffCaso IVEY-9B06E017-EGobierno corporativoA professor is shopping for a diamond engagement ring. He finds one with certain specifications for a certain price, and wishes to determine if the price of the diamond is fair. He collects data on the prices and characteristics (cut, colour, clarity and carats) of several hundred diamonds from three Internet wholesalers. This case can be used for linear regression analysis with categorical variables as well as other statistical techniques.Desde 8,20 €
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Caterpillar Inc.: Aftermarket Parts Freight Optimization
Singfat Chu; Ramya SubramanianCaso IVEY-9B18E001-EDirección estratégica, Gobierno corporativoA key contributor to the business reputation and success of Caterpillar Inc. (Caterpillar) was the company’s reliable aftermarket service. Caterpillar’s Asia Distribution Centre in Singapore processed urgent spare parts orders received from dealers located in 10 Southeast Asian countries. In 2017, the operations team was working to develop a rigorous analytical method for making daily decisions about how to ship the spare parts. Shipments were co...Desde 8,20 €
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Aggregate Planning at Green Mills
Owen P. Hall; Kenneth KoCaso IVEY-9B13D002-EGobierno corporativo, Servicios y operacionesGreen Mills Inc. operates several lumber mills throughout the Northwestern United States that produce a variety of wood products. The company is currently considering expanding operations to Chile as a vehicle for reducing the costs of raw materials. In that regard, the management team is interested in analyzing the cost implications as a vehicle to properly assess this backward integration strategy. More specifically, management wishes to evalua...Desde 8,20 €
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Brand Equity
Chris A. Higgins; Jodie WhelanCaso IVEY-9B10E023-EGobierno corporativo, MarketingA market research company has collected a large dataset on brand equity for the fast food and travel sectors. It has come up with a way of measuring brand equity. Various statistical techniques are used to assess the concept of brand equity. These include descriptive statistics, crosstabs, ANOVA, and MANOVA.Desde 8,20 €
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Toronto Rehab
Peter C. Bell; Fredrik OdegaardCaso IVEY-9B09E016-EGobierno corporativoDue to continued budget shortfalls the project manager for the Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute needed to provide proposals for immediate cost-saving measures. One of these measures included how to schedule the nursing staff. The problem involved meeting certain occupancy target levels while ensuring a minimum number and correct mix of available nurses.Desde 8,20 €
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Viadrome
Chris A. Higgins; David WiskelCaso IVEY-9B07E015-EGobierno corporativoThis case looks at an in-house experiment conducted by a plant manager to determine whether his quality control machines are functioning properly. The case can be used to help students understand the concept of variation and sources of variation. It is also useful for illustrating the effective use of descriptive statistics, single sample tests, paired tests and their non-parametric equivalents.Desde 8,20 €
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Understanding Political Polls
Chris A. HigginsCaso IVEY-9B07E016-EGobierno corporativoThis case examines the interpretation of political polls. It discusses margin of error, confidence intervals and the relationship between sample size and margin of error. An Excel spreadsheet is included, Ivey product # 7B07E016, to help students understand the concepts.Desde 8,20 €
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Container Transportation Company
Peter C. Bell; Bai Xiaodong; Michael ZhangCaso IVEY-9B08E005-EGobierno corporativoThe regional manager of the Container Transportation Company, and his colleagues were looking for a new strategy to allocate containers for transportation from Korea and China to the Middle East. All the business departments had been challenged by top management to optimize their revenues and profit. The regional manager wondered whether he could improve pricing or apply other revenue management techniques to enhance revenues without negatively a...Desde 8,20 €