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SicherPro Security at Truckzeit
de Santiago, RafaelCase AD-346-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementSicherPro offers global and specialized security services that, combined with the most advanced technologies, seek maximum efficiency for companies' business management. A typical problem the company faces is how to assign security officers in such a way that the customer's needs are met and, at the same time, the assignment is as efficient as possible. The case deals with the problem of assigning scarce resources (guards, in this case) in the mo...Starting at €8.20
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WoKou Robotics
de Santiago, RafaelCase AD-372-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementWoKou Robotics is a global artificial intelligence company that manufactures two of its most popular robots in the same plant. Manufacturing is divided into several processes: robotic design, 3D printing and wiring. The case provides a natural scenario to introduce linear optimization techniques. The last part of the case is designed to encourage discussion of optimization in the presence of uncertainty (simulation methods) using the simulation o...Starting at €8.20
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Language Exchange Club (LEC)
Baucells Alibés, Manel; de Santiago, Rafael; Malagrida, SergioCase AD-320-EService and Operations ManagementThe case deals with assigning people to jobs. It focuses particularly on how to streamline team creation as effectively as possible. Although the case deals specifically with forming groups in one of IESE's clubs, the methodology may be easily applied to any other type of team.Starting at €8.20
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UEFA Euro 2008
de Santiago, Rafael; Martínez Pedraza, ManuelCase AD-322-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case deals with the valuation of the risk involved in a particular business situation, and how to hedge that risk by means of insurance. It allows to show the strength of Monte Carlo simulation when dealing with complex risks. It also allows to explain a frequent bias in the decision making process.Starting at €8.20
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Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning: Practicum in Predictive Analytics, Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.; Levy, DanTeaching Note HBS-619071-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 618019.Starting at €0.00
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Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning: Practicum in Predictive Analytics, PowerPoint
Toffel, Michael W.; Levy, DanCase HBS-619718-EEconomicsSlides for case 618019.Starting at €8.20
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Afghanistan 2006: Building a Brand New State
Maurer, Noel; Spar, Debora L.; Trumbull, GunnarCase HBS-707033-EEconomicsIn 2006, Afghanistan remains a country in turmoil. It has a newly elected democratic government, a rebounding economy, and considerable economic potential. But the country is still torn by rival factions and dominated by the opium trade. Explores how Afghanistan has been rebuilt since the U.S. invasion of 2001, and what it means to create a modern state. Can state institutions be imposed from the outside? And what are the prospects for democracy ...Starting at €8.20
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Bundesautobahnen Group
de Santiago, Rafael; García Centenera, Iñigo; Izquierdo, DavidCase AD-367-EDecision AnalysisBundesautobahnen Group, a German construction company, has won a public tender to build (the first stretch of) a freewayan expressway between Berlin and Bremen, with a budget of 170 million of euros. The company neededs to optimize the costs, matching the estimates offered in the tender and improving the project's margin. One of the most important stages was the optimization of the earthwork along the route.Starting at €8.20
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Espresso House
de Santiago, Rafael; Carreras, Julián; Palaniswami, Ramesh; Vilà, JenniferCase AD-390-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, FinanceThe financial attractiveness of branded coffee shops attracted investments from the private equity industry in 2005. The case analyzes how Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm, used quantitative analysis to assess the risk of a 5-year growth investment in Espresso House, a branded coffee shop chain in Sweden.Starting at €8.20
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Devil in the Details: Designing a Social Impact Bond Agreement in Medellin Teaching Plan
Levy, Dan; Varley, PamelaTeaching Note HBS-KS1168-EEconomicsThis teaching plan accompanies Case Number 2043.0. In July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Co-lombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent nations, to Colombia and other low to middle income countries. This statistics case-one of two nearly identical HKS cases about Instiglio-provides backgr...Starting at €0.00