This website uses technical, customisation and analytical cookies, both first-party and third-party, to anonymously facilitate browsing and analyse statistics on use of the website. Learn more
Search results
-
Korean Air: The Nut Rage Incident
Thompson S.H. Teo; Mei Jie ZhaoCase IVEY-9B15D017-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn December 2014, after receiving poor service on a flight, a senior vice president at Korean Air lashed out at the flight attendants and delayed the flight’s departure until the chief attendant was returned to the gate. Following a tepid apology from her father, Korean Air’s chief executive officer, her actions drew a public backlash because they exposed the sense of entitlement prevalent among rich family conglomerates in South Korea. How shoul...Starting at €8.20
-
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Upton, David M.; Kim, BowonCase HBS-609018-EService and Operations ManagementExplores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new Chinese competitors. Without outsourcing some of its work to China, DSHM would become uncompetitive. However, in outsourcing the work, some skills would necessarily have to be transf...Starting at €8.20
-
Glovo: Expanding Quick Commerce
Moreno, Antonio; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-621094-EService and Operations ManagementIn March 2021, delivery app CEO Oscar Pierre and his team consider strategies to grow Glovo's quick commerce delivery service and to approach their expansion in Kenya.Starting at €8.20
-
Helio Polymer Enterprises
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Juma Wagoki; Clarke Eaton; Wesley Hunt; Matthew SmartCase IVEY-9B14D002-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyHelio Polymer Enterprises, located in Nakuru, Kenya, is a company that manufactures synthetic polymer gunny bags used in the transportation and handling of animal feed. The owner wants to expand her business operations so she can serve more clients. She has three options: to add a night shift, buy a new printing machine or start producing laminate gunny bags for other markets. Before she makes the decision, she must understand her current operati...Starting at €8.20
-
CFWshops
Friedman, Jared; Mungai, Edward; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1104-EService and Operations ManagementCFWshops is a network of pharmacy franchises in Kenya, managed by the Sustainable Healthcare Foundation (SHF). The parent company of SHF is the Healthstore Foundation based in Minnesota, US. The non-profit HealthStore Foundation (HS) (formerly Sustainable Healthcare Enterprise Foundation) was founded in 1997 by Scott Hillstrom to ¿prevent needless death and illness by improving access to essential medicines in a sustainable way¿. Based on the bas...Starting at €8.20
-
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
-
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
-
Tiburon
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Sean CautermanCase IVEY-9B09D003-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn April, 2008, the president of Tiburon, a manufacturer of camouflage components based in the Dominican Republic, met with Tiburon's parent company and sole customer, GMA. GMA, based in Guelph, Ontario, was an equipment supplier to the United States Army. Tiburon had only been in business one month, and the president was analyzing the current production process in each of the Dominican and Guelph plants. There were noted differences between the ...Starting at €8.20
-
Samsung Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence
Lakhani, Karim R.; Iansiti, Marco; Herman, KerryCase HBS-614034-EService and Operations ManagementFrom the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007-2013. As digital technologies increasingly converged in 2013-2014, the industry faced new questions: What was the future of TV? The case considers Samsung Electronics TV Group's product development processes, as the company's mobile and TV offerings increasingly converged and consumer demands and b...Starting at €8.20
-
Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains
Shih, Willy; Pierson, MargaretCase HBS-615003-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the after-action reports, George Topic, the Vice Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University wondered how the performance of disaster relief effo...Starting at €8.20