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Amenazas globales: diagnóstico y acción
Done, Adrian A.Article ART-2076Service and Operations Management, Strategy¿Cuánto tiempo dedica a pensar en las grandes cuestiones que afectarán a su vida personal y profesional en los próximos 20 años? Si está tan ocupado como la mayoría de sus colegas, no mucho. Pero las perspectivas de la economía mundial son peores hoy que cuando la crisis crediticia tocó fondo, así que de nada sirve esconder la cabeza. Es mejor atisbar las tendencias globales que acechan en el horizonte, analizar a fondo las fuerzas subyacentes y ...Starting at €8.20
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Bally AG: El proyecto DOT (A)
Sabrià, Frederic; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1053Service and Operations ManagementEl caso describe la situación de una de las empresas líderes del mercado de artículos de lujo. Su vicepresidente ejecutivo se plantea modificaciones en su cadena de suministro para aumentar la agilidad.Starting at €8.20
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Bally AG: The DOT project (A)
Sabrià, Frederic; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1053-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes the situation of one of the leading companies in the luxury goods market. The company's executive vice-president is planning some changes in the supply chain to enhance the speed of response.Starting at €8.20
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The Tavistock Group and the Australian Agricultural Company
Roscini, Dante; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-717009-EEconomicsIn late 2015, Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of the Bahamian-based investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest single shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses, faces a potentially challenging future operating environment in Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its agricultural foreign direct inves...Starting at €8.20
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The Promise of Agriculture in the Republic of Cuba
Alvarez, Jose B.; Otazo, Andrew; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-516067-EEconomicsThis background note explains Cuba's past and current agriculture policies, as well as provides insights into its future potential as relations with the U.S. normalize.Starting at €8.20
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Sherritt Goes to Cuba (C): Cuba country data
Musacchio, Aldo; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-711003-EEconomicsStarting at €5.74
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AGROESSA: An LP Optimization Model for Coffee Sales in La Esperanza AgroIndustrial
de Waal P. N.; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-299-EService and Operations ManagementRufino Herrera, the president of AGROESSA, was pondering the implications of the recommendations which came out of the work of Nico de Waal, an MBA student who worked for AGROESSA as a summer intern in 2004. The recommendations focussed on AGROESSA's cash flow management during the coffee harversting season. It was argued that AGROESSA could improve its profits by carefully considering when and to which market it should sell its coffee production...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Purchasing in Haiti to Improve Health: Why pay for inputs when you can pay for results
Eichler R.; Savedoff B.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1043-EService and Operations ManagementHolding health institutions accountable for achieving explicitly defined results by linking payment to results can be a powerful strategy to improve health system performance. The Director of a USAID supported project that funds nongovernmental organizations in Haiti to provide basic health services used strategic purchasing to improve the effectiveness of primary health care by paying providers for results. These providers had been operating und...Starting at €8.20
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Theories of Strategic Trade (Spanish version)
Kennedy, Robert E.Case HBS-714S20EconomicsThe theory of competitive advantage is one of the most widely accepted economic principles among economists. The theory, as well as substantial historical evidence, suggest that free trade raises national income, while government intervention in trade relations generally lowers a nation's wealth. In the last few years, however, new theories have led some commentators to question this conclusion. Based on research into imperfectly competitive indu...Starting at €8.20
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Nestle S.A. (Spanish version)
Goldberg, Ray A.; Hogan, Harold F., Jr.Case HBS-903S03EconomicsPeter Brabeck quiere centrarse Nestlé como una compañía de la salud en el sistema alimentario global y hacerlo de una manera que proporciona tanto el crecimiento en las ventas y los márgenes en los países desarrollados y en desarrollo.Starting at €8.20