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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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Deepwater Horizon: Vertido de crudo, dinero y confianza
Vaccaro, Antonino; Machado, AnaCase BE-174Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, StrategyStarting at €8.20
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EPO: Electricidade Portuguesa Online (B)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan Carlos; Soler, EdiCase ASN-62-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyTen months after rejecting an investment fund's offer to become a shareholder in Electricidade Portuguesa Online (EPO), the partners meet with their chief financial officer, Carla Ferreira, to analyze the results of the first three quarters of the year and the forecasts for the following two. Carla must also decide whether to accept the offer of the two partners for her to become a shareholder in the company: they are prepared to offer her 10% of...Starting at €5.74
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Fugesa Portuguesa
Murillo de Araoz J. F.; Torres R.; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-275-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsA fast food chain has to design an optimal expansion plan of franchises in a new market. The case sets the stage to model this situation using integer programming. The situation includes constraints of a financial, human resources and strategic nature. In particular, the financial constraints limit the negative magnitude of both the annual and the cumulative cash flows.Starting at €8.20
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Películas «on-line» (A)
Rata, Cristina; Ariño, Miguel Angel; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-277Decision Analysis, EconomicsEn este caso se presenta una situación de futuro en la que un proveedor de películas «on-line» debe negociar con un estudio la distribución de su película. La decisión se reduce a escoger entre dos posibles acuerdos de licencia: un precio fijo y un precio variable.Starting at €8.20
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Contra Costa Shopping Mall
Vergara, CarlesCase F-865Decision Analysis, FinanceEn este caso donde se discute la posible inversión en un centro comercial (shopping mall) en el condado de Contra Costa, Estados Unidos, utilizando la terminología propia del sector. En el trascurso de la discusión se hace hincapié en el análisis y la gestión de riesgos.Starting at €8.20
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EPO: Electricidade Portuguesa Online (B)
Palencia, Luis; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan Carlos; Soler, EdiCase ASN-62Decision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, StrategyDiez meses después de rechazar la oferta de un fondo de inversión para entrar en el capital de Electricidade Portuguesa Online (EPO), los socios se reúnen con su directora financiera, Carla Ferreira, para analizar los resultados de los tres primeros trimestres del año y las previsiones para los dos siguientes. Carla debe decidir, además, si aceptar o no la oferta que le han hecho los dos socios de entrar en el capital de la compañía: están dispue...Starting at €5.74
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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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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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UW Health University Hospital
García-Castro, RobertoCase AD-378-EDecision AnalysisThe case focuses on UW Hospital's approach to improve the accuracy of breast cancer detection using machine learning. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin assembled a unique data set comprising 569 examples of breast cancer biopsies to train a classification model (e.g., logistic regression or classification tree) for breast cancer detection.Starting at €8.20