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New England Apple Slices
Lee, Deishin; Weber, JamesCase HBS-612045-EService and Operations ManagementProtagonist leads an apple industry association that hopes to develop a market for New England apple slices to improve demand for apple products. Apples grown for slicing have characteristics that differ from most apples grown in New England. Case allows students to examine whether it makes sense for a farmer to begin to grow apples for slicing. The case also describes the distribution of apples and apple products so that students can examine how...Starting at €8.20
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Google Car
Lakhani, Karim R.; Weber, James; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-614022-EService and Operations ManagementBy 2013, Google, while not a traditional manufacturer of automobiles, had invested millions of dollars in its self-driving cars which had logged over 500,000 miles of testing. The Google management team faced several questions. Should Google continue to invest in the technology behind self-driving cars? How could Google's core software-based and search business benefit from self-driving car technology? As large auto manufacturers began to invest ...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse Medical Center
Bohmer, Richard; Huckman, Robert S.; Bozic, Kevin J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-607152-EService and Operations ManagementConsiders the issues associated with running multiple business models--a private practice and an academic faculty practice--within the confines of the orthopaedics department of a single medical center. Students assume the role of Neela Wilson, Executive Director of Rittenhouse Medical Center, in managing the operational requirements of, and organizational tensions created by, these competing models. In analyzing the case, students have the oppor...Starting at €8.20
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Echoing Green
Battilana, Julie; DeLong, Thomas J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-410013-EService and Operations ManagementThis case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Echoing Green is a fellowship program that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to attack some of the world's most difficult problems. After turning Echoing Green around and re-building an organization almost from scratch over the last 7 years, Dorsey feels that Echoi...Starting at €8.20
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Learning the Machine: Anovo Ibérica Introduces AI in Operations (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Zamora, Javier; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-207-PBInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, Anovo, a service provider for technology products, began studying the possibility of introducing AI to improve the efficiency of its operations. In 2020, it was already piloting its first implementation - a new automated diagnostics process that employed machine learning (ML) to optimize the company's smartphone repair business. So far, the results of the pilot had been encouraging: aftersales service was a low-margin business, which mad...Starting at €8.20
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Learning the Machine: Anovo Ibérica Introduces AI in Operations
Zamora, Javier; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-207-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, Anovo, a service provider for technology products, began studying the possibility of introducing AI to improve the efficiency of its operations. In 2020, it was already piloting its first implementation - a new automated diagnostics process that employed machine learning (ML) to optimize the company's smartphone repair business. So far, the results of the pilot had been encouraging: aftersales service was a low-margin business, which mad...Starting at €8.20
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SmartPik: Pikolin's Smart Mattress
Zamora, Javier; Tàpies, J.; Costa, Xavier; Vilet, Ana María; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SI-214-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementIn June 2017, Pikolin launched the SmartPik, its first smart mattress. The SmartPik was capable of measuring and analyzing sleep phases to improve sleep quality. The first tests had gone well, but Pikolin didn't know how consumers who for decades had bought conventional mattresses through a very traditional channel would react to a new product which, for the first time in the company's history, incorporated digital elements (hardware and software...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse Medical Center (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Huckman, Robert S.; Bozic, Kevin J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-617S06Service and Operations Management(1) gain a better understanding of operational focus and the concept of a "focused factory" in health care, (2) consider the concept of a "factory within a factory" in the context of an academic medical center, and (3) build an appreciation of the managerial challenges associated with operating related, and often competing, business units within the same organization.Starting at €8.20
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Google Car (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Weber, James; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-616S06Service and Operations ManagementBy 2013, Google, while not a traditional manufacturer of automobiles, had invested millions of dollars in its self-driving cars which had logged over 500,000 miles of testing. The Google management team faced several questions. Should Google continue to invest in the technology behind self-driving cars? How could Google's core software-based and search business benefit from self-driving car technology? As large auto manufacturers began to invest ...Starting at €8.20
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Artificial Intelligence at Arriaga Asociados: Paralegal or partner
Zamora, Javier; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Calvo, Eduard; Isaac Sastre BoquetCase OIT-23-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2023, Jesús María Ruíz de Arriaga, founder and CEO of Arriaga Asociados, was debating with Alejandro López Berraquero, the general manager, and Pedro López, the director of Transformation, about the digital transformation process that the law firm was undergoing. Specifically, Arriaga had just successfully tested an AI model that could read the text of the thousands of judicial notifications that arrived at the firm weekly, and it was time to ...Starting at €8.20