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Korean Air: The Nut Rage Incident
Thompson S.H. Teo; Mei Jie ZhaoCase IVEY-9B15D017-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn December 2014, after receiving poor service on a flight, a senior vice president at Korean Air lashed out at the flight attendants and delayed the flight’s departure until the chief attendant was returned to the gate. Following a tepid apology from her father, Korean Air’s chief executive officer, her actions drew a public backlash because they exposed the sense of entitlement prevalent among rich family conglomerates in South Korea. How shoul...Starting at €8.20
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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Upton, David M.; Kim, BowonCase HBS-609018-EService and Operations ManagementExplores 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...Starting at €8.20
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Ecocitex: ¿tenemos negocio?
Armelini, Guillermo; Yankovic, NataliaCase ESE-DC-C-ES-22-410Service and Operations ManagementEcocitex – economía circular textil – nacía en Santiago de Chile en enero de 2020 como una alternativa para disminuir el desecho textil del país. La buena acogida de los círculos especializados en innovación sustentable les había dado creciente visibilidad. Sin embargo, aún no conseguían que las empresas que necesitaban descartar responsablemente residuos textiles estuvieran dispuestas a pagar el costo de su transformación.Starting at €8.20
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Ecocitex: ¿tenemos negocio? - Nota de instructor
Armelini, Guillermo; Yankovic, NataliaTeaching Note ESE-DC-C-ES-22-410-TNService and Operations ManagementEcocitex – economía circular textil – nacía en Santiago de Chile en enero de 2020 como una alternativa para disminuir el desecho textil del país. La buena acogida de los círculos especializados en innovación sustentable les había dado creciente visibilidad. Sin embargo, aún no conseguían que las empresas que necesitaban descartar responsablemente residuos textiles estuvieran dispuestas a pagar el costo de su transformación.Starting at €0.00
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Innovating in the Pharmaceutical Supply System: the Chilean experience
Cohen, Jacob; Rosenhouse S.; Sánchez, J.; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1001-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes the transformation undergone by the medical and pharmaceutical supply system in Chile in the early 1990s, as a result of the changing role of the National Heath Service's supply organization (CENABAST), managed by the Ministry of Health, which found itself forced to evolve from operational management (product purchasing, storage and distribution) to a role as a transaction facilitator/guarantor, due to its poor performance (bo...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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Innovando en el Sistema de Suministro de Productos Farmacéuticos: La experiencia chilena
Cohen, Jacob; Rosenhouse S.; Sánchez, J.; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1001Service and Operations ManagementEl caso describe el proceso de transformación que experimentó el sistema de abastecimiento de suministros médicos y fármacos en Chile a principios de los años 90, a través del cambio en el rol de la Central de Abastecimiento del Sistema Nacional de Servicios de Salud (CENABAST) dependiente del Ministerio de Salud, que se vio en la necesidad de pasar de realizar una gestión operativa (de compras, almacenamiento y distribución de dichos productos) ...Starting at €8.20
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Sky Airline: Business Model Transformation and Future Challenges
Tarzijan, Jorge; Koliatic, Matko; Ricart, Joan EnricCase SM-1682-EDecision Analysis, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations Management, StrategySky Airline (Sky or the Company) had a traditional Full Service Carrier (FSC) business model (BM), under which the Company was struggling financially, mainly because it was competing with a more efficient airline: LATAM, the leader in the aviation industry in South America. To differentiate from competition and take advantage of value migration in the industry, Sky transformed its FSC model into a low cost carrier model (LCC). The transformation ...Starting at €8.20
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Samsung Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence
Lakhani, Karim R.; Iansiti, Marco; Herman, KerryCase HBS-614034-EService and Operations ManagementFrom the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007-2013. As digital technologies increasingly converged in 2013-2014, the industry faced new questions: What was the future of TV? The case considers Samsung Electronics TV Group's product development processes, as the company's mobile and TV offerings increasingly converged and consumer demands and b...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