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Tejidos Especiales Edentel 4.0 (B)
Lago, Alejandro; Sabrià, FredericCase P-1170Service and Operations ManagementPresenta las pruebas planeadas por el director de del Departamento de Producción de Tejidos Especiales Edentel para cumplir, de la mejor forma posible, los plazos de entrega. Este caso está basado en el caso "Tejidos Especiales Edentel", P-988, del prof. Riverola.Starting at €5.74
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Additive Manufacturing at Etnia Barcelona
Calvo, Eduard; Lago, Alejandro; Sabrià, FedeCase P-1155-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementEtnia Barcelona, a niche manufacturer of high-quality fashion eyewear, is considering its next move in light of the advances being made in additive manufacturing, which could require the company to rethink everything from product design to capacity footprint and logistics. The case covers the company's design-to-sale process, raw material procurement, and manufacturing operations. Etnia Barcelona has seen steady growth in revenues since its found...Starting at €8.20
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Tejidos Especiales Edentel 4.0 (B)
Lago, Alejandro; Sabrià, FredericCase P-1170-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes the trials that the head of the Production Department at Tejidos Especiales Edentel is planning in order to meet delivery dates in the best way possible. This case is based on the case "Tejidos Especiales Edentel," P-988, by Professor Josep Riverola.Starting at €5.74
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Netflix: del "clicks and bricks" a la distribución digital de películas
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sieber, SandraExercise PE-75Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementNetflix es un proveedor estadounidense de servicios de streaming a la carta y de alquiler de DVD por correo y con cuota fija. La compañía ha experimentado un éxito increíble desde sus comienzos en 1997. Durante 2010, sus ingresos aumentaron un 29% hasta los 2.160 millones de dólares y el precio de sus acciones subió un 219% hasta los 175,70 dólares. Eso también supuso una subida de 8 millones de suscriptores, llegando a un total de más de 20 mill...Starting at €8.20
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Motores Rivero S. A. (MORSA)
Ribera, Jaume; Lago, AlejandroExercise PE-74Service and Operations ManagementEste ejercicio presenta las decisiones que debe tomar un directivo relacionadas con la gestión de inventarios de una pieza de motor. Es muy adecuado como introducción a la gestión de inventarios, ya que presenta diferentes situaciones en evolución y permite al profesor discutir el inventario de lotes y el de seguridad, así como el impacto de la incertidumbre en las existencias y en la disponibilidad de financiamiento a la hora de tomar decisiones...Starting at €8.20
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Metro Bank: The British Banking Revolution Begins
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1112-EFinance, Service and Operations Management, StrategyVernon W. Hill has created quite a unique bank fully focused on delivering great customer service. Previously, in the United States, his approach has been highly successful. The question is: will he be able to replicate the success in the U.K. and lead to a banking revolution? But to answer this question, one first has to fully understand what the business model is all about.Starting at €8.20
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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-9B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementThe senior vice-president for sustainable investing at the U.S.-based Pax World Funds, a leader in socially responsible investing, needed to identify and invest in companies for the company's Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, an investment fund that promoted labour rights through gender equality. The fund had more than US$200 million in assets under management, a 25 per cent one-year rate of return, and a three-year annual rate of retu...Starting at €8.20
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Allianz: The Iberian Project
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1107-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementIn December 2007, the Allianz Group created a special taskforce to study the possible integration of the subsidiaries in Spain and Portugal. The different alternatives to be analyzed ranged from a complete merger of the two companies to sharing only some key back-office operations. Although companies in both countries had similar products and structures, their operational philosophies were rather different, since Spain had decentralized many acti...Starting at €8.20
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Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America (Spanish version)
Coles, Peter A.; Edelman, BenjaminCase HBS-915S10EntrepreneurshipSaferTaxi, a taxi booking service in South America must develop its mobilization strategy; that is, it must attract enough passengers and drivers to make its service worthwhile for all. Drivers hesitate to pay for SaferTaxi's smartphones and service unless these will deliver passenger bookings -- and passengers have no reason to sign up unless drivers are available. Meanwhile, regulators question the permissibility of online taxi booking in light...Starting at €8.20
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Masschallenge, Inc.: Launching a Non-profit Business Accelerator (A)
Gordon K. Adomdza; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13M013-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyMassChallenge Inc. is a large non-profit startup accelerator that connects new ventures with other stakeholders within an established business ecosystem. For this new company to engage stakeholders in the numbers envisaged and create a crowd-sourced deal management system, the founders need to develop a model that brings in as many quality or attractive startups as possible. Instead of taking equity in participating ventures as traditional accele...Starting at €8.20