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Sorenson Research Co. (Abridged) (Spanish Version)
Wheelwright, Steven C.; Crocker, GaryCase HBS-603S26Service and Operations ManagementPresenta los problemas que enfrenta un alto volumen, alto margen (pero ligero) productos médicos de negocios. La compañía está tratando de mejorar su control de inventario para reducir la inversión en inventarios y mejorar el servicio. El sistema de inventario multi-sitio actual se ha descrito y se presentan las principales alternativas para mejorar o sustituirlo.Starting at €8.20
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Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker (A) (Spanish version)
Snow, Daniel C.; Wheelwright, Steven C.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-607S43Service and Operations ManagementScharffen Berger, a premium brand chocolate, is growing rapidly and must decide where and when to add capacity in the production line and with what technology. The company must consider the demands of marketing, the impact on quality and reputation, and the economics of alternative approaches to increasing output in both the short term and long term. Provides an opportunity for students to examine the existing process technology and flow, to unde...Starting at €8.20
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Angola and the Resource Curse (Spanish version)
Musacchio, Aldo; Werker, Eric; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-714S10Economicsimmense inequality, low life expectancy, a non-diversified economy, and constant grumblings of corruption. The global financial crisis and subsequent fall in state oil revenue drives a loan-seeking Angola towards either the IMF, who demand extensive reforms, or the Chinese, who seek to take a direct stake in the nation's recovery. The case explores the dynamics of post-conflict recovery as well as the challenges associated with a reliance on oil...Starting at €8.20
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The Morrison Company (Spanish version)
Wheelwright, Steven C.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-413S16Service and Operations ManagementThe Morrison Company develops and manufactures radio frequency identification tags (RFID) known as "smart labels" for the retail and pharmaceutical industries. RFID technology is a fast-growing and increasingly competitive industry. Sales have risen dramatically over the past year and production levels have had to increase to meet monthly and quarterly shipping targets. However, the increase has exacerbated existing manufacturing problems and has...Starting at €8.20
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Stockbay Partners: Proactive Flexible Work and Talent Retention
Riya Vinayak; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B16C031-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAn entrepreneur faced a dilemma regarding the flexible work policy in his start-up consulting firm. The leader of the firm struggled with the complications that arose after the implementation of flexible working arrangements, and the various situations caused him to rethink the concept of trying to help his employees to manage their own work–life balance. Since flexible working hours were granted on a role-by-role basis, a perception of unfairnes...Starting at €8.20
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The Indian Greenpreneur: Management of Frenemy Talent and Coopetition
Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Neha Paliwal Sharma; Nakul GuptaCase IVEY-9B13C028-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyDuring the 2013 Indian festival of colours, a young green entrepreneur and owner of Green Horizon Consulting (GHC) faced a plethora of business growth challenges. His former employee, who had quit GHC a while back to work for a major rival, wanted to return. However, the entrepreneur could not figure it out — would rehiring an ex-employee be a sound business decision? Should he take a risk and give the former employee another chance? If he did, h...Starting at €8.20
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Cyberpreneur's Wake-up Call: Cyber Security and Millennial Talent Crises
Nakul Gupta; Arjun Bhatnagar; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B13E029-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIt was summer of 2013, and the news of cyber-attacks and information security breaches was on the rise in India, as it was worldwide. Incidents such as the Axis bank’s cyber-crime incident and the news of the American National Security Agency’s global e-surveillance were creating consternation and dilemmas in the minds of information security consultants. One such consultant owned and operated an information security company, Percept Softech, a L...Starting at €8.20
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Coinmen Consultants LLP: Adopting a Technology-Based Learning Culture
Pranati Aggarwal; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B17C008-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn 2016, the three co-founders of Coinmen Consultants LLP (Coinmen), an independent business advisory and chartered accountancy firm in New Delhi, faced a dilemma with respect to the knowledge management process at their firm. Due to the firm’s rapid growth, a change was certainly necessary, but the partners held some reservations about adopting a technological process for knowledge-sharing in their company. Would the implementation of a knowledg...Starting at €8.20
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Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)
Werker, Eric; Cornell, Ian McKownCase HBS-712054-EEconomicsIncoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the same time, South African firms had become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run im...Starting at €5.74
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4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies
Werker, EricCase HBS-713026-EEconomicsThis technical note describes a methodology for evaluating the political economy of business-government relations in an emerging or frontier economy. The note argues that there are not one but four markets in an emerging economy: the market of "rentiers" such as mining companies that earn profits by maximizing rents in the export sector, "powerbrokers" that use monopoly power and government relations in regulated industries to earn outsized profi...Starting at €8.20