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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
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Parrot: Navigating the Nascent Drone Industry
McDonald, Rory; Billaud, Emilie; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-619085-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2018, Henri Seydoux, CEO and Founder of Parrot, believed that his company was at an inflection point in its history. Parrot had been a European leader in consumer electronics since the 1990s, first developing Bluetooth kits for cars before moving on to electronic toys and, significantly, the AR Drone in 2010 - a remote-controlled quadcopter that was way ahead of its time. In the years that followed, Parrot's sales volumes and popularity quickl...Starting at €8.20
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Dassault Systemes
Thomke, Stefan; Beyersdorfer, DanielaCase HBS-610080-EService and Operations ManagementDassault Systemes, a leader in product lifecycle management software, has enjoyed a very profitable business model in 3D engineering design. In the past, it has successfully managed market disruptions and opportunities through acquisition and organic innovations. Its latest brands, 3DVIA, offers 3D models and life-like experiences to a new non-professional client category, the consumer. In November 2009, President and CEO Bernard Charles has to d...Starting at €8.20
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BYD Company, Ltd., Teaching Note
Huckman, Robert S.Teaching Note HBS-610073-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [606139].Starting at €0.00
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El Museo de la Cassette
Riverola, JosepCase P-1096Service and Operations ManagementChristine de La Cassette et Saint-Sulpice, directora del Museo de La Cassette, en París, estaba preocupado por los resultados de una encuesta que había encargado poco tiempo atrás, a una empresa especialista en estudiar las actitudes de clientes. La encuesta mostraba un grado notable de satisfacción por la visita al museo, pero al mismo tiempo, y por primera vez, se apuntaban defectos que no se habían detectado claramente con anterioridad. Alguno...Starting at €8.20
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The Flower and the Volcano: How Eyajafjallajökull Disrupted Kenya's Flower Industry
Chaturvedi, Aadhaar; Martínez de Albéniz, VictorCase P-1106-EService and Operations ManagementOn the morning of April 19, 2010, Mr. Eduard Ngugi, the manager of the Uraidi rose farm, was considering what to do with the roses that had filled the cold storage for the past 2 days. By this time, the roses, sitting in the cold storage room on the shore of Lake Naivasha, Kenya, should have found their way into the homes of western European customers. However, the explosive eruption in Iceland of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on April 14 had grou...Starting at €8.20
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Disneyland Paris. The first 2000 days
Hitrova K.; Huete, Luis MaríaCase P-958-EService and Operations ManagementDisneyland Paris was going through a major recovery process. The case describes the turnaround of the park, the present operational issues, changes in the industry and prospects for the future. The cases poses to the readers the questions of which strategies could ensure sufficient attendance as well as consistent adequate financial performance in the medium term as the company would have to redeem a major part of its borrowings and restart payme...Starting at €8.20
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Calais Dentelles
Nueno, PedroCase P-771Service and Operations ManagementEl futuro director de producción de una empresa familiar de tejidos especiales se pregunta hasta qué punto son aplicables en su empresa los conceptos y técnicas japoneses de gestión de la producción. La compañía obtiene buenos resultados en una coyuntura favorable, pero su sistema de gestión de las operaciones de producción consta de unas rutinas basadas en conceptos clásicos de organización de la producción, con notables ineficiencias. (Also ava...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Número 10. Tercer trimestre 2011
IESE InsightMagazine REV-10Economics, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyHoy, las empresas que piensan en internacionalizarse, innovar y crecer tienen muy claro que deben dirigirse a los mercados que llamábamos emergentes, y que ahora se conocen como de alto crecimiento. Pero las realidades de estos mercados ya no son como hace una década. Los artículos de este número de IESE Insight apuntan algunos aspectos que las empresas harían bien en tener en cuenta. Mauro F. Guillen y Esteban García-Canal repasan la...Starting at €22.00
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Ébola: cuando una buena gestión salva vidas
IESE InsightArticle ART-2676Service and Operations ManagementEl ébola se ha cobrado más de diez mil víctimas en apenas un año y durante varios meses la epidemia amenazó con extenderse sin control por todo el mundo. ¿Cuáles han sido los principales errores y escollos en la gestión de la crisis?Starting at €8.20