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Ebola: Managing to Save Lives
IESE InsightArticle ART-2676-EService and Operations ManagementA year after the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in March 2014, health-care experts are cautiously optimistic that the epidemic appears to be slowing. Although the outlook is brighter than a year ago when the first case was detected in Guinea, there is still a long way to go and many lessons to be learned in managing a crisis of this scale, related to institutional shortfalls, international coordination, engagement with local stakeholders and, m...Starting at €8.20
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Identifying Industries through Financial Statement Analysis: Pakistan 2017
Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-9B21B012-EAccounting and Control, FinanceThis exercise provides the financial data of eight major companies operating in Pakistan in 2019 and listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It also provides a list of eight of the country’s main industries. Identify which company operated within which industry to test your understanding of how a company’s financial data can be specific to a particular industry. Using only financial figures, can you identify within which industry each company oper...Starting at €8.20
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Imaam Spinning Mills: Cost of Capital of a Private Company
Aaqib Nawaz; Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) LiCase IVEY-W34046-EAccounting and Control, FinanceOn January 2, 2018, the chief executive officer of a private company in Karachi, Pakistan, Imaam Spinning Mills (Imaam), was planning to expand the company’s product line and enter the weaving business by setting up a new weaving plant. He asked his chief financial officer to conduct a financial evaluation financial evaluation of the project. To do so, she needed to calculate the weighted average cost of capital, using the comparative method to c...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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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
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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