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Raunchy E-mails, Too much Drinking and Dirty Dancing: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases across personal freedom, respect and decency (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-175-PPBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis"Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three sexual harassment-related cases which took place in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail featuring the name, photo and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo in order to obtain a "top ten"...Starting at €8.20
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Capital Bikeshare: Analyzing Bike Rental Demand
Joe Naoum-Sawaya; Abby XiongCase IVEY-9B21E008-EDecision AnalysisIn November 2018, a bicycle program specialist who worked in the Planning and Sustainability Division at the Washington, DC, District Department of Transportation, wanted to analyze Capital Bikeshare’s bike rental demand for the past two years. Capital Bikeshare was a station-based bike-sharing operator that provided an expansive, multi-jurisdictional transportation system to Washington and the surrounding area. If the bicycle program specialist ...Starting at €8.20
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Movies online (B)
Rata, Cristina; Ariño, Miguel Angel; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-278-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsPart (B) describes how to fit a lognormal distribution to the five percentiles given in Part (A) of the case. Given this lognormal distribution, a straightforward Monte-Carlo simulation model can be implemented to find the alternative with the smallest expected cost.Starting at €5.74
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LHSC Multi-Organ Transplant Program: Pooling Ontario's Kidney Transplant Wait-Lists
Fredrik Odegaard; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B18E020-EDecision AnalysisIn 2017, wait times for kidney transplants in Ontario were getting out of hand. While patients from London Health Sciences Centre’s kidney transplant program in London, Ontario, had a reasonable wait of approximately one year, patients in Toronto's kidney transplant program waited almost four years. In an attempt to improve the overall wait times for all Ontario patients, the provincial Ministry of Health intended to merge the two currently indep...Starting at €8.20
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City of London Water: Predicting Electricity Prices and Optimizing Operations
Ernesto Arandia; Joe Naoum-Sawaya; Kira Wembo XueCase IVEY-9B19E004-EDecision AnalysisThe manager of Water Operations at the City of London wanted to reduce the cost of pumping water by optimizing energy use. Water Operations had been consistently experiencing higher operational costs, and electricity bills accounted for up to 30 per cent of its direct costs. If the manager could predict the future cost of energy, she could schedule the operation of the water pumps to benefit from periods of low energy prices, potentially saving u...Starting at €8.20
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Resuelve in 2018: Fintech in Emerging Markets
Foster, George; Makinen, JulieCase SGSB-E657-EDecision AnalysisNo change to abstract.Starting at €8.20
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Deepwater Horizon: Spilling oil, money and trust
Vaccaro, Antonino; Machado, AnaCase BE-174-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, StrategyOn April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon¿a floating, semi-submersible, dynamically-positioned drilling unit¿exploded after a massive natural gas gusher from a natural reservoir located more than 13,000 feet under the sea floor. The explosion killed 11 people working on the platform and injured 17 others. After the explosion, an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of 87 days, causing unprecedented damage ...Starting at €8.20
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Synapse Technology Corporation: Using AI to Take a Good Look at Airport Security
Shaw, Kathryn; Cinnamon, Ian; Jedras, JamesCase SGSB-E763-EDecision AnalysisCould AI-based X-ray scanning platform make flying safer? Airport security officers had just seconds to decide if someone’s luggage contained a knife, gun, explosive, or other potential safety threat, and the human eye was not designed to focus for hours on a scanning screen. This case study describes the founding and early years of Synapse Technology, which aimed to improve airport security performance by leveraging advances in computer vision t...Starting at €8.20
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Cutting Short a Long Goodbye
Grousbeck, H I; Prober C G; Tauber, AlexanderCase SGSB-ETH20-EDecision AnalysisBernie and Ruby Merwald live in Menlo Park, California during their retired ages when Bernie falls ill to dementia and Alzheimer’s. This causes him to have significantly complex medical problems that result in familial conflicts, violence and avoidance of the doctor’s orders. When Bernie has a heart attack on top of his failing health, siblings want to pull the plug, but their protective and isolating mother disagrees. Because of a California law...Starting at €8.20
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Axel Springer en 2016: de la transformación a la aceleración
Burgelman, Robert A.; Siegel, Robert E.; Kissick, RyanCase SGSB-E610Decision AnalysisAs of 2016, Mathias Döpfner, chief executive officer (CEO) of Axel Springer SE, had successfully transitioned the German publishing house through a major digital transformation in the world of journalism. Given the massive disruption that had occurred over the previous two decades with how people consumed news, this was no small feat. During this time, many newspapers, magazines, and journals failed to keep up with the rapidly changing industry...Starting at €8.20