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Getting to Grips With Take-Back Laws
Atasu, Atalay; Van Wassenhove, LukArticle ART-1892-EService and Operations ManagementAs diverse environmental legislation is being formulated around the world, companies may find themselves in a ¿gray zone,¿ as the authors explain in a new paper on the subject. This presents challenges but also opportunities for companies to clarify operations in four areas: forming a network, rethinking product design, setting up a closed-loop supply chain, and adopting new technologies and business models. The authors believe that individual pr...Starting at €8.20
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United Breaks Guitars
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-202-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementUnited Continental Holdings, generally referred to as United for short, is one of the largest airlines in the world. Although it has its headquarters in Chicago (Illinois, United States), it operates nine different hubs, the other eight being Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark (New Jersey), San Francisco, Tokyo (Japan) and Washington D.C. Like many companies in the transport sector, United claims: ?Our goal is to make every flight a posit...Starting at €8.20
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Linkality's Call Center
Bitran, Gabriel R.; Mitchell, Jordan; Rocha e Oliveira, PauloCase M-1221-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementLinkality is the 8th largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the United States, with a subscriber base of approximately 3 million users. The case is focused on the management of Linkalitys call center, where approximately 85% of all contact with existing customers takes place. Hal Paden, VP of Operations, is looking for ways to reduce operating costs while at the same time improving service quality levels. Shelly Townsend, the call center ma...Starting at €8.20
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Exportflowers BV
Zantinga J.Case P-653-EService and Operations ManagementA small export company in the Dutch cut flower industry finds itself confronted with a series of demands from a large UK supermarket. Issues include channel integration and control, the types of risks encountered in this type of industry, as well as purchasing policies at an auction center and large company. The case includes a description of the Dutch Auction System as used in the flower trade. A video can be supplied through the Flower Bureau i...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 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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Starship SpaceX: The Disruption in the Space Value Chain
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX was established in 2002 to fulfill founder, CEO and chief engineer Ellon Musk's heady plan to colonize Mars. Starship aimed to be a "Mars colonial transporter" or, more formally, an "interplanetary transport system" both in ease of access and affordability, and designed to be "aircraft-like" from the specification and operational standpoints to maximize the vehicle's utilization rate of launching kilotons of payloads into orbit per year. S...Starting at €8.20
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Starbucks Reinvention Strategy: Store Automation and Growth
Moscoso, Philip; Isaac Sastre Boquet; Lago, AlejandroCase OIT-13-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementIn September 2022, Schultz presented Starbucks' new Reinvention strategy at the company's investor day in Seattle (U.S.). He claimed that the Reinvention strategy plan addressed the key issues the company faced, as follows: resolving the growing tensions with its U.S. workers, adjusting its value proposition to the shifts in consumer preferences, deploying more store automation, and reactivating its global expansion, primarily in China. During th...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