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Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion
Ton, Zeynep; Corsi, Elena; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-610042-EService and Operations ManagementPablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store managers were compensated, and creating formal operating procedures for store operations. But he knew he had to be careful. Could an emphasis on improving labor productivity hurt other ...Starting at €8.20
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Carter & Wilson y Tamper
Perote J.; Pastor, AlfredoCase ASE-397EconomicsLa adquisición de una compañía por una multinacional es denunciada ante el Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia. Motivo: exceso de poder de mercado. El caso plantea los argumentos que la compañía denunciada debe emplear en su defensa.Starting at €8.20
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Téneo
Pastor, Alfredo; Perote J.Case ASE-371EconomicsEl caso que se propone presenta un supuesto dilema al que se enfrentaron los responsables del Instituto Nacional de Industria en España cuando se planteó la posibilidad de escindir del grupo industrial las empresas mas rentables y con posibilidades de inversión y autofinanciación dada la nueva situación de competencia europea y aprovechando la reciente recuperación parcial de los resultados del Grupo. La trascendente decisión en cuestión no era f...Starting at €8.20
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Doctor Bucheli goes to China
Pastor, AlfredoCase ASE-394-EEconomicsEl caso plantea la elaboración de un informe sobre la situación de la economía china a finales de 1998 y sus perspectivas a corto y medio plazoStarting at €8.20
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South Korea (A): Before the Storm
Pastor, Alfredo; Videla, PedroCase ASE-385-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion (Spanish Version)
Ton, Zeynep; Corsi, Elena; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-614S07Service and Operations ManagementPablo Isla, el CEO de Zara, quería mejorar la eficiencia operativa en la gestión de su red de tiendas. En particular, quería mejorar la productividad laboral en las tiendas. A su juicio, la externalización de ciertas operaciones de la tienda a terceros, cambiando la forma fueron compensados gerentes de las tiendas, y la creación de procedimientos formales de operación para operaciones de la tienda. Pero sabía que tenía que tener cuidado. Podría...Starting at €8.20
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Sanofi Pasteur: The Dengue Vaccine Dilemma
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Bloom, David E.; Dessain, Vincent; Billaud, EmilieCase HBS-514074-EIn 2012, Sanofi Pasteur was racing to develop a vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, and was evaluating this product in a Phase IIb trial conducted with school children in Thailand. But while the candidate vaccine met the high safety expectations and a good balanced immune answer, it had a proof of efficacy of only 30%, far below the 70% mark the company had targeted. Guillaume Leroy, vice president of the Dengue Company at Sanofi Pa...Starting at €8.20
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IT for Fast Fashion (Spanish version)
McAfee, Andrew; Sjoman, Anders; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-605S17Service and Operations ManagementIn 2003, Zara's CIO must decide whether to upgrade the retailer's IT infrastructure and capabilities. At the time of the case, the company relies on an out-of-date operating system for its store terminals and has no full-time network in place across stores. Despite these limitations, however, Zara's parent company, Inditex, has built an extraordinarily well-performing value chain that is by far the most responsive in the industry. The case descri...Starting at €8.20
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Pearson Affordable Learning Fund
Chu, Michael; Dessain, Vincent; Maslauskaite, KristinaCase HBS-315109-EAn in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a profitable and scalable basis. With Pearson's overall strategy shifting from the developed to the developing world and from a supplier of books to a host of other learning products and servi...Starting at €8.20