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Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Weber, JamesCaso HBS-124013-EContabilidad y controlIcahn Enterprises, a publicly traded limited partnership founded and operated by famed activist investor Carl Icahn, had earned above market returns for over a decade. Between 2018 and early 2023, it had a compound annual return of 31%. Icahn invested in undervalued companies and then publicly pressured boards of directors to make changes to increase the share price. Hindenburg Research (Hindenburg), an activist short-selling investment firm foun...Desde 8,20 €
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AeroTech Service Group, Inc. (Spanish Version)
Upton, David M.; McAfee, AndrewCaso HBS-615S17Servicios y operacionesService Group AeroTech utiliza protocolos de Internet y otras tecnologías de computación avanzada para interconectar el IS redes de McDonnell-Douglas aeroespacial con muchos de sus clientes, proveedores y otros socios. El caso analiza las opciones de productos y explora de Aerotech para el crecimiento de la empresa.Desde 8,20 €
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ITC eChoupal Initiative (Spanish version)
Upton, David M.; Fuller, Virginia A.Caso HBS-606S02Servicios y operacionesSoybean farmers in India have traditionally sold their product through ineffective and frequently dishonest physical marketplaces (mandi). Farmers are generally poor and often illiterate and are forced to be "price-takers" after an arduous journey to the mandi. They also have very limited access to information and education on farming techniques. Describes the use of Internet technologies to reach these farmers and, in particular, examines a new ...Desde 8,20 €
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Lean Knowledge Work
Staats, Bradley R.; Upton, David M.Artículo HBS-R1110G-EServicios y operacionesMany manufacturing companies and some service firms have reaped considerable benefits by applying variations of the Toyota Production System, a method for making operations "lean" through relentless efforts to increase quality and efficiency and eliminate waste. But conventional wisdom holds that lean principles don't lend themselves to knowledge work, which involves judgment and expertise, not the sorts of repetitive, easily specified tasks foun...Desde 8,20 €
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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Upton, David M.; Kim, BowonCaso HBS-609018-EServicios y operacionesExplores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new Chinese competitors. Without outsourcing some of its work to China, DSHM would become uncompetitive. However, in outsourcing the work, some skills would necessarily have to be transf...Desde 8,20 €
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Foremostco, Inc. (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Upton, David M.; Fuller, Virginia A.Nota del Instructor HBS-607011-EServicios y operacionesTeaching Note to (604-017) and (605-032). An abstract is not available for this product.Desde 0,00 €
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TCS: The MCA 21 Project
Upton, David M.; Staats, Bradley R.Caso HBS-609024-ETata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to bid on a high-profile government project within India. The project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS' progression from a provider of low-cost technical resources to their goal of becoming an end-to-end technology enabled services provider. However, the project was not only complex but also presented cons...Desde 8,20 €
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Codelco Copper Mines
Upton, David M.; Staats, Bradley R.; Fuller, Virginia A.Caso HBS-608053-ETecnologías de la informaciónCodelco was a Chilean copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco faced the challenge of incorporating information technology into its production processes, which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric co...Desde 8,20 €
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Radically Simple IT
Upton, David M.; Staats, Bradley R.Artículo HBS-R0803J-ETecnologías de la informaciónMany managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are turned on. What's needed for today's businesses is IT that serves not only as a platform for existing operations but also as a launchpad for new functions and businesses. In this articl...Desde 8,20 €
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Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Weber, JamesCaso HBS-120006-EIniciativa emprendedoraStephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their employees by examining company data on employees, including email traffic. Starling had struggled to grow in the people analytics sector while RegTech was an emerging sector that might pro...Desde 8,20 €