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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD): Five Failures and Counting (A)
Cross, TomCase DARDEN-OM-1185-EService and Operations ManagementTHAAD was a kinetic-energy weapon designed to protect the United States against enemy missile attack. But after $3.2 billion had been spent, the program was deemed a failure, as all five of the initial tests had missed the targets. This case is about how a strategic sourcing project ran into trouble and what options could be pursued to rescue the project, given the multiple stakeholders involved. The (B) case presents what actually happened.Starting at €8.20
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Canyon Mining Corporation: Heavy Mobile Equipment Procurement
Laseter, Timothy M.; Katz, Arnon; Choi, SihyunCase DARDEN-OM-1392-EService and Operations ManagementCanyon Mining intends to negotiate a long-term contract for haul trucks to use for surface mining, and a team from Censeo Consulting Group is tasked with developing a methodology to track cost changes over the past contract as input into the negotiation. The current project’s primary objective is to estimate the year-over-year trend in factory manufacturing margins for two different capacity trucks from two different equipment suppliers. These es...Starting at €8.20
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Hope for Special Hope (A)
Matherne, G. Paul; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1679-EService and Operations ManagementThis case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children with intellectual disabilities and their families in Lusaka, Zambia. Eric, a pastor, and Holly, a special needs teacher, had previously adopted three children with Down syndrome and moved to Zambia to form this enterprise. They worked hard to overcome systemic obstacles to their mission, includin...Starting at €8.20
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Hope for Special Hope (C)
Matherne, G. Paul; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1681-EService and Operations ManagementThis case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children with intellectual disabilities and their families in Lusaka, Zambia. Eric, a pastor, and Holly, a special needs teacher, had previously adopted three children with Down syndrome and moved to Zambia to form this enterprise. They worked hard to overcome systemic obstacles to their mission, includin...Starting at €5.74
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Learning Team Muda Audit
Weiss, Elliott N.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1688-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes the meetings and development of a fictitious learning team at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. The purpose is to give students the opportunity to perform a waste audit on the learning processes of this team. The case gives students the opportunity to identify muda, non-value added activities, in a non-manufacturing environment. The case can be used in an operations course with the focus on process i...Starting at €8.20
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OYO Hotels USA: Coming to America
Weiss, Elliott N.; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-OM-1641-EService and Operations ManagementThis case studies the growth of OYO Hotels (OYO) to illustrate the operational processes necessary to succeed in the service sector. The case allows for a discussion of employee- and customer-management systems, tech-driven solutions, and profit drivers. The material unfolds OYO's growth and its solution for making economy hotels discoverable and bookable online. The case raises a series of questions around OYO's business model, its ability to ...Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Governance: The Jack Wright Series (4) The Mystique of Board Meetings (Spanish version)
Colley, John L.; Stettinius, Wallace; Logan, George W.Case DARDEN-OM-1623Service and Operations ManagementEsta es la traducción al español de la versión del 11 de mayo de 2011 del caso UVA-OM-1086. Este caso amplia el capítulo sobre las reuniones de la junta. El propósito de las reuniones se ilustra al igual que las reacciones de Jack Wright al flujo de su primera reunión de la junta con Mega Corporation.Starting at €8.20
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Henry Spots a Problem at Sunshine O.J. (A)
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-OM-1614-EService and Operations ManagementHenry Franklin works at Sunshine O.J. (Sunshine), a three-year-old, fast-growing organic orange juice manufacturer near Charleston, South Carolina. Before his employment at Sunshine, Franklin worked for about two decades in his family’s business, FranklinStarting at €8.20
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Process Capability: Practice Problems
Weiss, Elliott N.Case DARDEN-OM-1492-EService and Operations ManagementThis case contains four practice problems to help develop student understanding of process capability.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventory: Intuition-Generating Problems
Weiss, Elliott N.Case DARDEN-OM-1487-EService and Operations ManagementThis problem set introduces the concepts of order quantities and inventory tradeoffs, enabling students to develop intuition around the basic costs involved in inventory thinking. This can be used with the note “Managing Inventories: Fundamentals,” UVA-OM-1397.Starting at €8.20