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Improving Health Care Access for the Poor: A Case Study of the Washington DC Public Health Care System Reforms (A)
Pate M. A.; Abramson, W.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1046-EService and Operations ManagementThe Major of Washington must decide how to restructure the health care of the District of Columbia, which has suffered from severe financial crisis. The availability of resources contrasts with its poor health outcomes. The main provider of health care to the uninsured, the Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation is forecasted to exhaust its FY2001 subsidy by the middle of March. A commission has submitted its recommendations, which inclu...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Health Care Access for the Poor: A case Study of the Washington DC Public Health Care Systems Reforms (B)
Pate M. A.; Abramson, W.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1047-EService and Operations ManagementThe Major of Washington must decide how to restructure the health care of the District of Columbia, which has suffered from severe financial crisis. The availability of resources contrasts with its poor health outcomes. The main provider of health care to the uninsured, the Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation is forecasted to exhaust its FY2001 subsidy by the middle of March. A commission has submitted its recommendations, which inclu...Starting at €5.74
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Just Us! Coffee Roasters
Julia Sagebien; Scott Skinner; Monica WeshlerCase IVEY-9B06A027-EMarketing, StrategyThe founders of Just Us! Coffee Cooperative (Just Us!) are involved in a strategic planning process. The growing demand and acceptance of fair trade products is good news for the industry and opens many opportunities for Just Us!, but there are also risks. Just Us! will likely face increased market competition from major U.S. retail coffee brands and Canadian supermarket brands, pressure on margins as more brands crowd the shelves, and more compe...Starting at €8.20
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Windhorse Farm's Eco-Woodshop Guitar Top Decision
Julia Sagebien; Annika TamlynCase IVEY-9B08M066-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe owner of Windhorse Farm (WHF), a sustainably run woodlot and woodshop in Nova Scotia that produces building products as well as tonewood (wood used for guitar, mandolin, violin tops), is reaching retirement age. Since there is no heir apparent to run the businesses, he needs to determine whether he should stay in or exit the building products business and/or the tonewood business. The decision must conform to the criteria set out by the four ...Starting at €8.20
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Just Us. Community-based Tourism
Ian McKillop; Julia Sagebien; Alba BruguerasCase IVEY-9B10M108-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe development coordinator for Just Us! Development Education Society (JUDES) was reviewing the preliminary agenda for the JUDES Annual General Meeting (AGM). The meeting would take place some time between May 1 and May 14, 2010, during Canada’s National Fair Trade Weeks. The coordinator was preparing her to-do list for the event. Just Us!, a Nova Scotia-based cooperative that offered fair trade products, had a very loyal regional following, and...Starting at €8.20
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Pan Boricua: Developing a Market Strategy for the Hispanic Market in the United States (Spanish version)
Julia Sagebien; Jennifer Catinchi; Eva Perez; Marisol Perez-Savelli; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B09AS20Entrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyDos inexpertos, pero fuertemente confiado, empresarios hacen frente a los molestias de una nueva empresa: exportando la masa hecho en Puerto Rico a las ciudades en los Estados Unidos donde se encuentran una gran cantidad de inmigrantes puertorriqueños que están deseando nostálgicamente para su querido pan sobao (pan hecho con manteca vegetal). Con millares de puertorriqueños que viven en y/o que se mueven a los Estados Unidos y después de varios ...Starting at €8.20
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MacTara Limited and the Wood Products Industry in Nova Scotia
Julia Sagebien; Rick ShaverCase IVEY-9B07M070-EStrategyThe case centers around the strategic planning retreat of MacTara Limited (MacTara), the largest wood products company in Nova Scotia. While there are some very good opportunities for the company in some sectors, like wood pellets for fuel (high demand for inexpensively priced renewable energy sources), the Canadian lumber industry as a whole is not attractive at this time (distortionary effects of the Canadian-U.S. softwood lumber dispute, low p...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon: equilibrio entre orientación al cliente y compromiso del empleado
Tatge, Larisa; Lago, Alejandro; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1165Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementAmazon se define como la empresa más centrada en el cliente del mundo y explica su crecimiento en diversos sectores como una forma de ir aportando más valor a sus clientes. Si visión es "to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online" ("ser la compañía más centrada en el cliente del mundo, crear un lugar al que la gente pueda acudir para encontrar y d...Starting at €8.20
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Christmas Eve (A, B, C, D)
Ribera, JaumeCase P-1034-EService and Operations ManagementThe Krank family have to organize a Christmas party and decorate their house in a very short period of time. The exercise involves planning these activities as a project, taking into account the impact that various other events may have on those activities.Starting at €8.20
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Amazon: Balancing Customer Centricity with Employee Engagement
Tatge, Larisa; Lago, Alejandro; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1165-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementAmazon defines itself as the most customer-centered company in the world and explains its growth in various sectors as a way to offer more value to its customers. "Our vision is to be earth's most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online," according to Amazon's mission statement. This case presents how Amazon has grown quickly, and how it aims to balance this rapi...Starting at €8.20