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Location Planning at A.B. Corp.
Jitendra R. SharmaCase IVEY-9B12D008-ECorporate Governance, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn March 2010, the management of A.B. Corp. announced its plan to select a definite location for its central warehouse. The company, a major producer of agriculture and farm equipment, had gone through three consecutive years of financial loss as a result of increasing production costs. Management had to select a central warehouse between four candidates, based on the location of five distribution centres, the loads to be transferred, and other f...Starting at €8.20
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Recruiting Andrew Yard (A)
Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-911028-EStrategyThis case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes awkward when the candidate feels insulted because he is given a monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during...Starting at €8.20
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Recruiting Andrew Yard (B)
Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-911029-EThis case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes awkward when the candidate feels insulted because he is given a monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during...Starting at €5.74
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Recruiting Andrew Yard (C)
Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-911030-EThis case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes awkward when the candidate feels insulted because he is given a monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during...Starting at €5.74
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YAAS's Service Center
Hall, Brian J.; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-914049-EThis case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whether team incentives are bes...Starting at €8.20
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YAAS's Service Center (B)
Hall, Brian J.; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-914050-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to case 914049. This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whet...Starting at €5.74
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A-CAT Corp. - Bang for the Bucks
Jitendra R. SharmaCase IVEY-9B09D006-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe case describes the situation facing the vice-president of A-CAT Corp. (A-CAT), Vidarbha Region, Maharashtra. A-CAT manufactured a wide range of electrical appliances for household use. Typical products included TV signal boosters, transformers, FM radio kits, electronic ballasts, battery chargers and voltage regulators. The voltage regulators manufactured by A-CAT were used for many different purposes; however, the focus was on its flag-ship ...Starting at €8.20
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Decision-making at A-Cat Corp.
Jitendra R. SharmaCase IVEY-9B11D011-ECorporate Governance, Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementThe case describes the situation faced by the vice president of A-CAT Corp. The company was a mid-sized manufacturer and distributor of domestic electrical appliances, largely catering to the price-sensitive rural population. The firm operated two medium-sized facilities in a remote district in Vidarbha, India. A-CAT manufactured a wide range of electrical appliances including TV signal boosters, transformers, FM radio kits, electronic ballasts, ...Starting at €8.20
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Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (A)
Srinivasan Maheswaran; Jitendra R. Sharma; John S. Haywood-FarmerCase IVEY-9B13D003-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe (A) case involves managing the planning and execution of the first convocation held at one of the campuses of a business school in Nagpur, India, at fairly short notice. The school’s chairperson of post-graduate studies in management programs has been appointed as the chief co-ordinator of the event. Leveraging his operations-management background and working in collaboration with other faculty, he sets about identifying the required activiti...Starting at €8.20
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Toffee Inc.: Demand Planning for Chocolate Bars
Jitendra R. SharmaCase IVEY-9B15D003-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe inventory manager of sales and distribution for Toffee Inc., a confectionery company, had just concluded a meeting with all relevant personnel. The meeting had not been entirely positive. The words of the production manager still echoed in his ears: “If the ingredient inventory is not re-examined and re-worked to the firm’s advantage then [soon] the final products based on these ingredients will cease to yield the kind of profits that the fir...Starting at €8.20