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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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Six Sigma at Cintas Corporation
P. Fraser Johnson; Adam BortolussiCase IVEY-9B10D009-EService and Operations ManagementThe green belt specialist at the Cintas Torlake facility near Toronto had four days before he was to present his recommendations to the executive steering committee (ESC) for correcting the capacity problem in the mat department, which was causing product shortages and negatively affecting customer satisfaction. The case provides data that students can use to analyze the processes used at the company for cleaning and replacing mats for its approx...Starting at €8.20
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Medicom: Building A Resilient Supply Chain
P. Fraser Johnson; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B21D011-EService and Operations Management, StrategyGuillaume Laverdure, chief operating officer at Medicom Group (Medicom), was evaluating a potential investment in a new facility that would manufacture melt-blown polypropylene (melt-blown PP), a key raw material for surgical and respirator masks. It wasStarting at €8.20
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HP Canada Co.: A Circular Supply Chain for Recycled Plastic - Teaching Note
Jury Gualandris; Deishin Lee; Cole BeattieTeaching Note IVEY-W25394-EService and Operations ManagementIt was June 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Frances Edmonds, head of sustainable impact at HP Canada Co., the Canadian subsidiary of HP Inc. (HP), was continuing HP’s decades-long pursuit of sustainable impact. HP was now committed to usiStarting at €0.00
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CoolIT Systems: Developing an Operations Strategy
P. Fraser Johnson; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B20D019-EService and Operations ManagementIn February 2020, the executive vice-president of Manufacturing and Supply Chain at CoolIT Systems (CoolIT), met with the company's chief executive officer (CEO) in their Calgary office. The company had recently developed a new range of products that provStarting at €8.20
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Sam’s Pizzeria: Managing Peak Demand
David Wood; Ali Abdel-RazekCase IVEY-9B20D002-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementIn October 2018, the owner of Sam’s Pizzeria (Sam’s) in Orillia, Ontario, needed to determine how he should staff his business to keep up with an increase in demand on Halloween. Halloween had often been a source of frustration, as Sam's struggled to keep up with demand on that day. Providing customers with good-quality pizza and fast delivery was critical to Sam’s success. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of the past, the owner knew that he wo...Starting at €8.20
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South East Grey Community Health Centre: Journey to Rural Expansion
David Barrett; Vania SakelarisCase IVEY-9B20D008-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2019, the clinical director of the South East Grey Community Health Centre was conflicted about whether to proceed with presenting the chief executive officer with a proposal to expand the health centre's primary services to a satellite location in theStarting at €8.20
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Exportflowers BV
Zantinga J.Case P-653-EService and Operations ManagementA small export company in the Dutch cut flower industry finds itself confronted with a series of demands from a large UK supermarket. Issues include channel integration and control, the types of risks encountered in this type of industry, as well as purchasing policies at an auction center and large company. The case includes a description of the Dutch Auction System as used in the flower trade. A video can be supplied through the Flower Bureau i...Starting at €8.20
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Shouldice Hospital Ltd.
Heskett, James L.Case HBS-683068-EService and Operations ManagementVarious proposals are set forth for expanding the capacity of the hospital. In assessing them, serious consideration has to be given to the culture of the organization and the importance of preserving it in a service delivery system. In addition to issues of capacity and organizational analysis, describes a well-focused, well-managed medical service facility that may well point the way to future economies in the field.Starting at €8.20