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Linkality's Call Center
Bitran, Gabriel R.; Mitchell, Jordan; Rocha e Oliveira, PauloCase M-1221-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementLinkality is the 8th largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the United States, with a subscriber base of approximately 3 million users. The case is focused on the management of Linkalitys call center, where approximately 85% of all contact with existing customers takes place. Hal Paden, VP of Operations, is looking for ways to reduce operating costs while at the same time improving service quality levels. Shelly Townsend, the call center ma...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: El alquiler de películas en DVD a través de Internet. DVD en casa con solo hacer clic
Sachon, MarcCase P-1057Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementNetflix ofrece la posibilidad de alquilar películas en DVD a través de la red. La compañía fue fundada en 1998 y en tan sólo 5 años había conseguido más de un millón de suscriptores (un crecimiento superior al de AOL). Representa un nuevo modelo de negocio en el sector del entretenimiento y tiene implicaciones estratégicas tanto para los estudios de cine como para las principales cadenas de alquiler de películas. Netflix utiliza la fuerza de cada...Starting at €8.20
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Creatividad medioambiental en Delco, Inc.
Otero L.; Dionis, LorenzoCase P-935Service and Operations ManagementAnte la nueva demanda legislativa y la sensibilidad ecológica de la sociedad, DELCO INC. desarrolla un plan con incentivos para propuestas de sus empleados.Starting at €8.20
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Improving Health Care Access for the Poor: A Case Study of the Washington DC Public Health Care System Reforms (A)
Pate M. A.; Abramson, W.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1046-EService and Operations ManagementThe Major of Washington must decide how to restructure the health care of the District of Columbia, which has suffered from severe financial crisis. The availability of resources contrasts with its poor health outcomes. The main provider of health care to the uninsured, the Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation is forecasted to exhaust its FY2001 subsidy by the middle of March. A commission has submitted its recommendations, which inclu...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Health Care Access for the Poor: A case Study of the Washington DC Public Health Care Systems Reforms (B)
Pate M. A.; Abramson, W.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1047-EService and Operations ManagementThe Major of Washington must decide how to restructure the health care of the District of Columbia, which has suffered from severe financial crisis. The availability of resources contrasts with its poor health outcomes. The main provider of health care to the uninsured, the Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation is forecasted to exhaust its FY2001 subsidy by the middle of March. A commission has submitted its recommendations, which inclu...Starting at €5.74
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Un viaje transformador en tiempos inciertos (A)
Elvira, Marta; Villamor, MartaCase DPO-733Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementEl caso introduce a Cristina Ventura, chief catalyst officer del minorista asiático de artículos de lujo Lane Crawford Joyce Group (LCJG). Ventura se encontraba en Nueva York cuando el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció la decisión del Gobierno de cerrar el tráfico aéreo internacional debido a que la COVID-19 se estaba propagando por el mundo. Si bien estaba asentada en Hong Kong, Ventura había pasado los últimos tres meses e...Starting at €8.20
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Starship SpaceX: The Disruption in the Space Value Chain
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX was established in 2002 to fulfill founder, CEO and chief engineer Ellon Musk's heady plan to colonize Mars. Starship aimed to be a "Mars colonial transporter" or, more formally, an "interplanetary transport system" both in ease of access and affordability, and designed to be "aircraft-like" from the specification and operational standpoints to maximize the vehicle's utilization rate of launching kilotons of payloads into orbit per year. S...Starting at €8.20
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Starbucks Reinvention Strategy: Store Automation and Growth
Moscoso, Philip; Isaac Sastre Boquet; Lago, AlejandroCase OIT-13-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementIn September 2022, Schultz presented Starbucks' new Reinvention strategy at the company's investor day in Seattle (U.S.). He claimed that the Reinvention strategy plan addressed the key issues the company faced, as follows: resolving the growing tensions with its U.S. workers, adjusting its value proposition to the shifts in consumer preferences, deploying more store automation, and reactivating its global expansion, primarily in China. During th...Starting at €8.20
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Martian Rocket Products
Serrano, Alejandro; Ribera, JaumeCase OIT-36-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes the situation faced by MRP, a manufacturer of parts for the aerospace industry. Mamagers have to decide how many parts of each component should be ordered from the suppliers.Starting at €8.20
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Getting to Grips With Take-Back Laws
Atasu, Atalay; Van Wassenhove, LukArticle ART-1892-EService and Operations ManagementAs diverse environmental legislation is being formulated around the world, companies may find themselves in a ¿gray zone,¿ as the authors explain in a new paper on the subject. This presents challenges but also opportunities for companies to clarify operations in four areas: forming a network, rethinking product design, setting up a closed-loop supply chain, and adopting new technologies and business models. The authors believe that individual pr...Starting at €8.20