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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
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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
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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
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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
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FIJI Water: Carbon Negative, Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.; Gino, FrancescaTeaching Note HBS-612051-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for 611-049Starting at €0.00
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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
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FIJI Water: Carbon Negative
Gino, Francesca; Toffel, Michael W.; van Sice, StephanieCase HBS-611049-EService and Operations ManagementSeeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a Carbon-Negative campaign that would offset more greenhouse gas emissions than were released by the company's operations and products. The case examines the controversies surrounding this program as well as the program's impacts on the environment and FIJI Water's brand image. The compa...Starting at €8.20
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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
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Arrebato por unas nueces - Una cultura corporativa en crisis
Herrera Espaliat, Felipe; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-468Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEl presente caso describe los acontecimientos que detonaron una crisis corporativa en la compañía aérea Korean Air en diciembre del 2014. Al tiempo que se ofrece un escenario cronológico de los hechos, se identifican tanto los fallos en la gestión de los problemas como los desaciertos comunicacionales y el consiguiente debilitamiento en la relación con sus diversos stakeholders. Progresivamente, se muestra la escalada de errores que hicieron que ...Starting at €8.20
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The "Nut Rage Incident" - Corporate Culture in Crisis
Herrera Espaliat, Felipe; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-468-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementThis case describes the events that triggered a corporate crisis at Korean Air in December 2014. The case provides the time line of events while also identifying the company's shortcomings in conflict management, as well as the communication missteps it took and how these blunders weakened the relationship between the company and its various stakeholders. The case illustrates, step by step, how the company's mistakes kept snowballing until a top ...Starting at €8.20