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Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-606S16Service and Operations ManagementThe large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI project and must determine exactly how much software to buy. She must also plan the BI implementation throughout the company. After conferring with Business Objects, the BI applicat...Starting at €8.20
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Dubai Ports Authority (A) (Spanish Version)
McAfee, Andrew; Ooms-Wall, Karen; Al Qasimi, LubnaCase HBS-608S08Service and Operations ManagementLos Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) desea digitalizar muchos de los documentos que comparte con sus socios externos, incluyendo el envío de líneas y agentes, comerciantes y autoridades aduaneras del país. DPA también desea automatizar las muchas transmisiones de documentos relacionados con manifiestos de embarque. En el momento de la causa, la industria del transporte marítimo en todo el mundo se caracteriza por bajos niveles de automatización, la pr...Starting at €8.20
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Prediction Markets at Google (Spanish version)
Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, AndrewCase HBS-612S12Information TechnologiesIn its eight quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market, and how to best use its predictions.Starting at €8.20
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Moore Medical Corp. (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Bounds, GregoryCase HBS-606S13Service and Operations ManagementMoore Medical is a medium-sized distributor of medical supplies to practitioners, such as podiatrists and emergency medical technicians. At the time of the case, it has relied on traditional customer channels such as catalogs, phones, and faxes to communicate product offerings, promotions, and availability, and to take orders. It is now attempting to shift to a "bricks and clicks" distributor with a strong Internet presence. It has already made s...Starting at €8.20
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Passive Management of Fixed Income Portfolios
Guasch J.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoTechnical Note FN-503-EFinanceIn this technical note we give a general overview of passive management of fixed income portolios, that is, management designed to replicate the market average return rather than trying to beat it. In the first section we look at the main types of passive strategies. After that, we explain in detail how guaranteed funds are created and managed.Starting at €8.20
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Hedging Fixed Income Portfolios with Futures
Guasch J.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoTechnical Note FN-499-EFinanceIn this note we shall see how a bond portfolio can be hedged using bond futures. We shall study the general principles of hedging, and then the specific steps involved in implementing a hedge. Lastly, we shall point out some hedging errors.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Credit Risk in Fixed Income Portfolios
Guasch J.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoTechnical Note FN-501-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Debt Markets
Guasch J.; Martínez Abascal, Eduardo; Simon, JanTechnical Note FN-490-EFinanceThis technical note presents an idea of what the debt market is. It describes the public debt issued by the central governments of each country, the non-governmental bonds, the supranational organisms, the debt issued by government agencies, the debt issued by companies with credit rating, asset securitization and the debt issued by companies without credit rating. Finally, the credit qualifications, or "ratings",of the debt in the long term ar...Starting at €8.20
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Money Markets
Guasch J.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoTechnical Note FN-489-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Miguel Castaño at Seat
Montoliu, A.; Ballabriga, A.; Torrents J.; Guasch J.; Heukamp, FranzCase AD-286-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsSales forecast for a car sector based on past sales and related macroeconomic data.Starting at €8.20