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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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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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Haifolk 2012 Music Festival
de Santiago, RafaelCase AD-332-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementThe case describes the development of a company in Haifa, Israel, whose activity consists of organizing music concerts. Born as a small enterprise, it grew rapidly in just a few years. It now faces the challenge of streamlining the process of creating the concert lineup, taking into account the bands' popularity, venue capacity and so on.Starting at €8.20
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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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The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq, Abridged
Lundberg, Kirsten; Bowles, Hannah Riley; Zimmerman, PeterCase HBS-HKS098-EService and Operations ManagementThis case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad, and collapse of Saddam Hussein's government. Having completed their combat mission, and with just a few days notice, the 101st is ordered to Mosul, Iraq's third largest city and the capital of Nineveh provinc...Starting at €8.20
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Rural Electrification in Nicaragua (Abridged)
Shiekh, Tahir; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS483-EService and Operations ManagementIn the fall of 2001, officials of the National Energy Commission of Nicaragua were reviewing a pilot study of the options for electrification in three rural communities. Rural electrification was an important issue in Nicaragua since 40 percent of the population, mostly in rural areas, was without power. Many of those lived too far from the main high-voltage grid to be served easily with grid extensions. The consultants were recommending subsidiz...Starting at €8.20
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Growing pains: the Nicaraguan social insurance health model in transition
La Forgia G. M.; Ribera, Jaume; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1009-EService and Operations ManagementA consultant who has been contracted to draw up a report examining the feasibility of applying a model similar to that of the MSP (provisional health model, already operating within the INSS - Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security) to poor populations not covered by the INSS, reaches the conclusion that the model is not yet transferable as it may require urgent large-scale improvements. The case describes the MSP's progress: a 160% growth in th...Starting at €8.20
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The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq: Teaching Note
Zimmerman, PeterTeaching Note HBS-HKS569-EService and Operations ManagementThis case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad, and collapse of Saddam Hussein's government. Having completed their combat mission, and with just a few days notice, the 101st is ordered to Mosul, Iraq's third largest city and the capital of Nineveh provinc...Starting at €0.00
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Anodot: Autonomous Business Monitoring
Moreno, Antonio; Golan, DanielleCase HBS-621084-EService and Operations ManagementAutonomous business monitoring platform Anodot leveraged machine learning to providing real-time alerts regarding business anomalies. Anodot's solution was used in various industries in order to primarily monitor business health, such as revenue and paymeStarting at €8.20