ESE (Chile)
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Trouble at Tessei, Teaching Note
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Buell, Ryan W.Teaching Note HBS-616031-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen (""bullet"") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the demands on Tessei continued to grow. Given previous leaders' failed attempts to fix Tessei's problems with increased managerial monitoring and controls, Yabe seeks a creative approach...Starting at €0.00
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Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision
Buell, Ryan W.Case HBS-615026-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2012, Compass Group (Compass) was on the verge of closing a $2 billion deal with Ascension Health (Ascension), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Under the deal, Compass would provide foodservice management and cleaning services for 86 of Ascension's hospitals. Compass employs a "sectorized" approach to deliver service through a portfolio of focused brands, each of which targets focused groups of customers with specifi...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Access at VA, Teaching Note
Buell, Ryan W.; Huckman, Robert S.Teaching Note HBS-618052-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching note for case 617012.Starting at €0.00
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Trouble at Tessei (Spanish version)
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Buell, Ryan W.Case HBS-619S01Service and Operations ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen (""bullet"") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the demands on Tessei continued to grow. ...Starting at €8.20
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Trouble at Tessei
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Buell, Ryan W.Case HBS-615044-EService and Operations ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen (""bullet"") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the demands on Tessei continued to grow. ...Starting at €8.20
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Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision, Teaching Note
Buell, Ryan W.Teaching Note HBS-616046-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for case 615026. In 2012, Compass Group (Compass) was on the verge of closing a $2 billion deal with Ascension Health (Ascension), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Under the deal, Compass would provide foodservice management and cleaning services for 86 of Ascension's hospitals. Compass employs a "sectorized" approach to deliver service through a portfolio of focused brands, each of which targets focused ...Starting at €0.00
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United Airlines: More Out-and-Back Flying
Buell, Ryan W.; Shih, Willy; Toffel, Michael W.Case HBS-617010-EService and Operations ManagementThe case looks at United Airlines when it is facing a decision on whether to shift its aircraft routing to more "out-and-back" routing in order to try to improve its on time performance. As one of the world's largest airlines, United had a very large fleet and hub-and-spoke network that provided passengers with a wide range of destination choices, but as with any complex system unless everything ran perfectly all the time, it inevitably faced cas...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Access at VA
Buell, Ryan W.; Huckman, Robert S.; Travers, SamCase HBS-617012-EInformation TechnologiesIn 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans faced to get medical appointments in some VA facilities. The fallout led to the resignation of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a criminal investigation by the Federal Bureau of Inv...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Access at VA (Update)
Buell, Ryan W.Case HBS-621070-EService and Operations ManagementIn November 2020, Chief Veterans Experience Officer, Lynda Davis, and Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer, Barbara C. Morton reflect on a busy four years leading the Veterans Experience Office at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The case provides an update on the transformation efforts at VA that were documented in the "Improving Access at VA" case.Starting at €8.20