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Flotel Orellana
Riverola, JosepCase P-928Service and Operations ManagementEl caso muestra las operaciones que tienen lugar durante la explotación del Flotel Orellana, un barco-hotel que opera en la selva amazónica. Permite analizar la relación entre la estructura de las operaciones y el entorno en el que se producen.Starting at €8.20
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El Seguro Social Campesino en Ecuador
Cárdenas M.; Sánchez, Loppacher J.Case P-1030Service and Operations ManagementEl Seguro Campesino en Ecuador presenta un interesante ejemplo de enfoque de subsidio de demanda para mejorar la cobertura médica para los pobres y las poblaciones rurales. El caso describe el desarrollo de este esquema en Ecuador y presenta el principal problema que queda aún por resolver una vez el sistema se desarrolle: la falta de oferta. El Ministerio debe afrontarlo, y en este caso se presentan varias alternativas. Uno de los principales ro...Starting at €8.20
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Rural social security in Ecuador
Cárdenas M.; Sánchez, Loppacher J.Case P-1030-EService and Operations ManagementThe Rural Social Security Plan in Ecuador is an interesting example of a demand subsidy approach to achieving better medical coverage in poor and remote rural populations. The case describes how this scheme was developed in Ecuador and the main problem that remains once that the system is in place: the lack of health care providers. The ministry needs to address this problem, and several alternatives are outlined in the case. One of the health mi...Starting at €8.20
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Flotel Orellana
Riverola, JosepCase P-928-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes the operations involved in running the Flotel Orellana, a floating hotel operating in the Amazon jungle. It allows for analysis of the relationship between the structure of operations and the environment in which they take place.Starting at €8.20
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Modern Agricultural Farm: Budgeting for Control
Muntazar Bashir AhmedCase IVEY-9B13B025-EAccounting and Control, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn May 2011, the managing partner of the Modern Agricultural Farm in rural Pakistan was reviewing the set of performance reports for the previous month sent by the farm accountant. These reports had been designed by a management analysis and research consultant to convert the farm system to that used by the head office of the Alamgir Group of businesses, of which the farm was a part. There were two concerns: how to handle the fluctuations in the ...Starting at €8.20
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Shaping the Vaccine Manufacturing Ecosystem (Abridged)
Shih, WillyCase HBS-620071-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes the efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lower the cost of production of vaccines to prevent polio infections. It is an abridged version of Case No. 620-021 with less emphasis on comparison between traditional and the new compact modular process developed with the Foundation's funding. It focuses more on the lowering of entry barriers to vaccine manufacture and some of the perceived risks associated with that.Starting at €8.20