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Amenazas globales: diagnóstico y acción
Done, Adrian A.Article ART-2076Service and Operations Management, Strategy¿Cuánto tiempo dedica a pensar en las grandes cuestiones que afectarán a su vida personal y profesional en los próximos 20 años? Si está tan ocupado como la mayoría de sus colegas, no mucho. Pero las perspectivas de la economía mundial son peores hoy que cuando la crisis crediticia tocó fondo, así que de nada sirve esconder la cabeza. Es mejor atisbar las tendencias globales que acechan en el horizonte, analizar a fondo las fuerzas subyacentes y ...Starting at €8.20
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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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Graphisoft
Pistrui J.; Roure, JuanCase P-932-EService and Operations ManagementGraphisoft is a Hungarian based technology company that develops, markets and supports advanced 3D computer aided design (CAD) software for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. Their leading product -ArchiCAD®- is designed for the personal computer platform and represented 90% of the $19 million in company sales in 1996. ArchiCAD is sold in 80 countries and in 19 different languages. The case reviews the entrepreneuria...Starting at €8.20
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CVO Group: la expansión europea
Mitchell, Jordan; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-102Entrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementNorrie Sinclair, consejero delegado de CVO Group, una empresa de contratación de personal con sede en Budapest (Hungría) que opera en toda Europa del Este, está barajando dos tipos de expansión: una ampliación geográfica a Londres (Reino Unido) y una expansión hacia el alquiler de personal a través de la adquisición. En su búsqueda por un objetivo a adquirir, ha dado con Center Group, una empresa polaca dedicada al alquiler de personal y a la sub...Starting at €8.20
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CVO Group: the European Expansion
Mitchell, Jordan; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-102-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementNorrie Sinclair, CEO of CVO Group - a recruiting company based in Budapest, Hungary, with operations throughout Eastern Europe - is considering two types of expansion: geographic enlargement to London, UK and expanding into personnel leasing through acquisition. In his search for an acquisition target, he has come across Center Group, a company participating in both personnel leasing and payroll outsourcing in Poland. This case allows students t...Starting at €8.20
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AGROESSA: An LP Optimization Model for Coffee Sales in La Esperanza AgroIndustrial
de Waal P. N.; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-299-EService and Operations ManagementRufino Herrera, the president of AGROESSA, was pondering the implications of the recommendations which came out of the work of Nico de Waal, an MBA student who worked for AGROESSA as a summer intern in 2004. The recommendations focussed on AGROESSA's cash flow management during the coffee harversting season. It was argued that AGROESSA could improve its profits by carefully considering when and to which market it should sell its coffee production...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Purchasing in Haiti to Improve Health: Why pay for inputs when you can pay for results
Eichler R.; Savedoff B.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1043-EService and Operations ManagementHolding health institutions accountable for achieving explicitly defined results by linking payment to results can be a powerful strategy to improve health system performance. The Director of a USAID supported project that funds nongovernmental organizations in Haiti to provide basic health services used strategic purchasing to improve the effectiveness of primary health care by paying providers for results. These providers had been operating und...Starting at €8.20
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Mestska Nemocnice V Litomerice
Ribera, Jaume; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-825-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Adquisición estratégica en Haití para mejorar los sistemas sanitarios: por qué pagar por inversiones cuando se puede pagar por resultados
Eichler R.; Savedoff B.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1043Service and Operations ManagementResponsabilizar a las instituciones de salud de la consecución de objetivos relacionando el pago a los resultados obtenidos, puede ser una potente estrategia para mejorar la eficacia de un sistema de salud. El director de un proyecto patrocinado por USAID, que financia ONG en Haití para la provisión de atención primaria básica, utiliza la compra estratégica para mejorar la eficiencia del sistema mediante el pago por resultados. El sistema de pago...Starting at €8.20
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Facing Up to a Changing World
Done, Adrian A.Article ART-2076-EService and Operations Management, StrategyHow much time do you dedicate to thinking about the big issues that are likely to affect your personal and professional life in the next 20 years? If youre like many busy executives, not much. Yet with a global outlook arguably bleaker today than during the lowest point of the credit crunch, burying your head in the sand is no answer. Surely, it is better to face up to the big global trends looming on the horizon and figure out the best courses ...Starting at €8.20