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Premià de Dalt (A and B) - Teaching Note: Privatization in the Name of Security
Giuseppe Giura; Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-25-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, the people of Premià de Dalt, a small town north of Barcelona (Spain), started to be seriously concerned about security. Indeed, the local police (Policia Urbana) had received an anomalously high number of reports of home burglaries. The mayor of the city was urged to find an immediate and effective solution. This situation was part of a much larger problem affecting Barcelona's metropolitan area. Most of the responsibility for security ...Starting at €0.00
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Trouble at Tessei, Teaching Note
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Buell, Ryan W.Teaching Note HBS-616031-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen (""bullet"") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the demands on Tessei continued to grow. Given previous leaders' failed attempts to fix Tessei's problems with increased managerial monitoring and controls, Yabe seeks a creative approach...Starting at €0.00
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Henkel Iberica (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Martinez-Jerez, F. Asis; Narayanan, V.G.Teaching Note HBS-107078-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note to (105-023) and (105-024).Starting at €0.00
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Mercadona Tech: Separating the shower from the bathtub - Teaching note
Villanueva, Julian; Ferrándiz, LuisTeaching Note MT-61-EInformation Technologies, Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementIn May 2022, Mercadona, along with its e-commerce division, was looking for ways to continue growing. They had developed what was probably the only profitable online supermarket in Spain up to the moment. The hive logistics model was operating in just three cities: Valencia, Madrid, and Barcelona. After six years, the time had come to expand domestically. Mercadona invoiced 510 million euros in e-commerce, but half of those sales (263 million eur...Starting at €0.00
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Share Now: How to Achieve Profitable Growth - Teaching Note
Moscoso, PhilipTeaching Note PT-75-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe case describes the recent decisions taken by the management of Share Now, a leading carsharing company (the result of a merger between Car2Go and Drive Now). As part of its strategic plan for the city of Madrid, the company has decided to increase its area of coverage by 27 km2, while adding another 450 electrical cars to the fleet. Furthermore, it will implement dynamic prices that change according to demand. Share Now's main challenge is to...Starting at €0.00
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Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza, Teaching Note
Watson, Noel; Kraiselburd, SantiagoTeaching Note HBS-609114-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [609113].Starting at €0.00
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Vodafone Japan (A), (B) and (C) , Teaching Note
Alcacer, JuanTeaching Note HBS-713444-EService and Operations ManagementThe series of three cases is used in Harvard Business School's (HBS) elective course "Competing Globally" as the second case in the first module (Why?: Strategies to create value globally) (See "Competing Globally: Course Note for Instructors", HBS 713-422). The module identifies three general strategies that create value through global operations: deploying, developing, and deepening. The Vodafone Japan cases illustrate the second strategy type:...Starting at €0.00
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Mercadona and the Challenge of 2020 - Teaching Note
Serrano, Alejandro; Girbal, AlbertTeaching Note PT-78-EService and Operations ManagementAfter various decades of uninterrupted growth, Mercadona was completing its expansion in Spain and Portugal. Faced with this situation, it was natural in which direction the company strategy should head. Should it continue its expansion process into other countries, such as Italy? If so, what impact would the recent change of model from "integrated suppliers" to "totalers" have on the process?Starting at €0.00
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DJ World Conference - Teaching Note
de Santiago, RafaelTeaching Note ADT-40-EDecision Analysis, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementTokyo Music School (TOMS) has prepared some of the best DJs in the world for almost two decades. At the beginning of 2019, the school decided to organize an event that would bring together recent alumni with some of the best DJs in the world. The long-term vision was to make this event grow into a global convention for DJs. A number of world-renown disc jockeys have been invited to discuss and share their personal experiences regarding what it ta...Starting at €0.00