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Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Brem, LisaCaso HBS-109076-EContabilidad y controlVirginia Mason Medical Center (VM) hired Owens & Minor (O&M) as its alpha vendor for medical/surgical supplies in 2004. By 2005, O&M was performing JIT and LUM services for VM, but they believed the pricing model in the industry was outdated. VM and O&M partnered to create the Total Supply Chain Cost (TSCC) pricing program, an activity-based model that assigned all the cost drivers of distribution and inventory handling to VM, but also assured O&...Desde 8,20 €
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Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)
Narayanan, V.G.; Brem, LisaCaso HBS-109077-EContabilidad y controlThe epilogue to Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A), the B case details the outcome of the issues discussed in Case A; namely that Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor did implement the TSCC contract. Virginia Mason also kept the suture contract with O&M because the TSCC model was able to prove that O&M was the low-cost provider. Case B also gives results metrics, such as reduction in line items, orders, and days sales outstan...Desde 5,74 €
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Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)
Narayanan, V.G.; Brem, LisaCaso HBS-110063-EContabilidad y controlOwens & Minor (O&M) performed lean inventory services for Virginia Mason (VM) as its alpha vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model called the total supply chain costs (TSCC), which incented both companies to be more efficient and to streamline their distribution activities. After beta testing the TSCC for one year, V...Desde 8,20 €
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Owens & Minor, Inc. (A) (Spanish version)
Narayanan, V.G.; Brem, LisaCaso HBS-110S18Contabilidad y controlA forward-thinking manager at Owens & Minor (O&M), a large national medical and surgical distribution company, enlisted the help of both logistics and cost managers to develop an innovative pricing schedule based on the customer's activities instead of the price of the product since the existing cost-plus pricing structure made it impossible for O&M to price services appropriately. The case also explores the customer resistance to his new proposa...Desde 8,20 €
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Career at a Crossroad: Akhil Patel
Wasserman, Noam; Brem, Lisa; Braid, YaelCaso HBS-812010-EIniciativa emprendedoraAkhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but his fianc e is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing alternative offer from a prestigious consulting firm. Should Akhil follow his dream and become an entrepreneur? Or should he take the "safer" consulting job?Desde 8,20 €
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Career at a Crossroad: Roopa Rao
Wasserman, Noam; Brem, LisaCaso HBS-812011-EIniciativa emprendedoraAkhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa Rao, his fianc e, is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing alternative offer from a prestigious consulting firm. Should Akhil follow his dream and become an entrepreneur? Or should he acquiesce to the other forces in his life and take the "safer"...Desde 8,20 €
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La Estrategia de Captación de Clientes de Internet en Bankinter
Martinez-Jerez, F. Asis; Narayanan, V.G.; Brem, LisaCaso HBS-104S02Contabilidad y controlBankinter, un relativamente pequeño banco español, tiene una gran presencia como un proveedor de servicios financieros a Internet. Abriendo el camino a la rentabilidad a través de Internet Bankinter dará una gran ventaja competitiva sobre los bancos españoles más grandes y consolidadas. Ann Peralta, director de la red de Internet en Bankinter, debe evaluar si los miles de nuevos clientes llegando de otros portales son rentables para el banco. Per...Desde 8,20 €
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Crosley
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCaso HBS-809160-EIniciativa emprendedoraIn October 1941, a top secret envoy from the U.S. military was sent to Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio to request their assistance to construct a weapon that would drastically strengthen the defenses of U.S. troops: the proximity fuze. Such a fuze would allow enemy aircraft to be shot down with a rate of accuracy well above that of previous weaponry. The task would be a challenging one, as conventional wisdom held that it took at least fo...Desde 8,20 €
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Neoprene
Nicholas, Tom; Tamega Fernandes, FelipeCaso HBS-810084-EIn 1931, during one of the worst economic crises in US history, Du Pont announced the discovery of an innovative rubber synthetic product - neoprene. Yet at the time of the announcement, Du Pont did not have any neoprene to sell. Manufacturing facilities were still being erected and production remained at laboratory scale. Rubber synthetics had been developed in Russia, Germany and even in the United States before, but large scale production had ...Desde 8,20 €
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Arthur Rock
Hardymon, G. Felda; Nicholas, Tom; Kind, LizCaso HBS-813138-EIniciativa emprendedoraArthur Rock was known as one of the country's first venture capitalists and was instrumental in launching major Silicon Valley firms, such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne Incorporated. He was the first venture capitalist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. Rock was adamant that his success was due to luck and being in the right place at the right time. Others argu...Desde 8,20 €