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Pricing at Vocram Airways (A)
Fredrik Odegaard; John G. WilsonCase IVEY-9B13E013-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipIn 2010, the owner of a small air-passenger firm transports individuals and small groups to remote waterfront regions. The business serves two types of customers: private and public. The private customers can afford to pay more, while the public customers’ budget constraints limit what they can pay. The owner wants to set a single price that will maximize his expected revenue across both customer groups. A constraining factor is the plane’s limit...Starting at €8.20
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Kimpton Hotels - Setting Prices on Priceline (A)
Chris K. Anderson; John G. Wilson; Joel ReadCase IVEY-9B09E027-EDecision Analysis, Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementIn June 2008, the Kimpton Hotels' area director of revenue management (director) for Washington, D.C. was trying to process the most recent customer information report from Priceline.com (Priceline). In an attempt to improve revenues during periods of lowStarting at €8.20
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Pricing at Vocram Airways (B)
Fredrik Odegaard; John G. WilsonCase IVEY-9B13E014-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThis is a supplement to 9B13E013.Starting at €5.74
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Kimpton Hotels — Setting Prices on Priceline (C)
Chris K. Anderson; John G. Wilson; Joel ReadCase IVEY-9B09E029-ECorporate Governance, Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementThe Kimpton Hotels' area director of revenue management (director) for Washington, D.C. was excited about using Priceline.com to help fill rooms on some of Kimpton's low-demand weekends. He estimated the coming weeks' demand across three rate classes and across three lengths of stay (LOS), and he wanted to make sure he did not use Priceline.com too aggressively by releasing too many rooms onto the site.Starting at €5.74
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Cells For Life (B)
John G. Wilson; Robert Young; Georg Oppitz; Wayne Hoy; David BassinCase IVEY-9B09E011-ECorporate Governance, Service and Operations ManagementA biotech company receives umbilical cells for processing. A number of operational improvements are being considered in order to maintain the company's position and reputation in the market. Information on expected delivery dates is known. However, there is a great uncertainty around these dates. The company needs to take account of this variability when arranging for staffing.Starting at €5.74
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OLGC Finds Its Match (B)
Chris K. Anderson; John G. WilsonCase IVEY-9B09E015-ECorporate Governance, Service and Operations ManagementThis supplement to OLGC Finds Its Match (A), product # 9B09E014, summarizes the results from a series of bets and provides the email response from the game provider following the discontinuation of this particular game.Starting at €5.74
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Aena: la crisis de los controladores
Villanueva, Julian; Bel Mallén, Ignacio; Paniagua Granados, Francisco JavierCase M-1271Knowledge and CommunicationEl puente de la Constitución en España es el último gran puente antes de las vacaciones de Navidad. En el año 2010 coincidió con las fechas comprendidas entre el 3 y el 8 de diciembre y siempre será recordado en España por "la crisis de los controladores". Se trataba de un fin de semana con gran afluencia de tráfico aéreo. Todos los españoles estuvieron pendientes de los medios de comunicación: televisión, radio, diarios digitales y redes sociale...Starting at €8.20
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Aena: The Air Traffic Controller Crisis
Villanueva, Julian; Bel Mallén, Ignacio; Paniagua Granados, Francisco JavierCase M-1271-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe long weekend of the Constitution is the last of several long weekends throughout the year in Spain before the Christmas holidays. In 2010, it fell between December 3 and 8, and it will always be remembered in Spain for the "air traffic controller crisis." It was a weekend when heavy air traffic was expected. All Spaniards turned to the media - TV, radio, online newspapers and social networks - to keep abreast of minute-by-minute developments ...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo Aramón: turismo de nieve y de montaña
Sanders, Karen; Paniagua Granados, Francisco JavierCase M-1268Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEl Grupo Aramón es una sociedad anónima de titularidad pública dedicada al mundo del turismo de nieve. El Grupo se fundó en el año 2002 con el fin de "impulsar el desarrollo económico social de las comarcas en las que opera, mediante la creación de una oferta de turismo de esquí y montaña moderna e innovadora". El Grupo Aramón está compuesto por cinco estaciones de esquí de la comunidad autónoma de Aragón y se define como "el primer grupo español...Starting at €8.20
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Tokyo AFM
Brochet, FrancoisCase HBS-109056-EAccounting and ControlThis case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but which shared similarities in terms of economics with issues addressed in the curriculum. The company, Tokyo Auto Fire & Marine (hereafter Tokyo AFM), is a fictitious insurance company...Starting at €8.20