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PadFone vs. FonePad
Shih, Willy; Chai, SenCase HBS-614023-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. To Jonney Shih, Chairman of ASUSTek Computer, the introduction of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of his design and engineering teams. The case examines the ASUS's efforts to get into the smartphone business, l...Starting at €8.20
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BGI: Data-driven Research
Shih, Willy; Chai, SenCase HBS-614056-EService and Operations ManagementBGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving important parts of the world food supply. But his biggest challenge was in scaling up his organization to address the multitude of opportunities he wanted to address. Along with its ma...Starting at €8.20
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Mobil USM&R (B): Ventas y Distribución New England
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-104S05Accounting and ControlEl gerente general de una unidad de negocio de distribución de gasolina / ventas de destilados y local debe comunicar una nueva estrategia para 300 empleados de la unidad. Un primer ejercicio de planificación estratégica identificó una lista de alta prioridad de las oportunidades que se mezclaba la estrategia nacional de la división padre con una estrategia local personalizado. Pero para la nueva estrategia sea eficaz, el sistema de medición de e...Starting at €5.74
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Midwest Office Products (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-106S04Accounting and ControlPresents an easy introduction to time-driven activity-based costing (ABC) that allows students to build a simple ABC model of order profitability. Midwest's time-driven ABC approach is based on two categories of parameter estimates. The first is the cost per hour of employees performing diverse tasks, such as order-entry operators and delivery personnel performing desktop deliveries. The second is the estimated time required for employees to perf...Starting at €8.20
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Domestic Auto Parts (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-106S15Accounting and ControlDescribes a meeting of an executive team to discuss strategy for a company turnaround. The exercise is to construct a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to capture the new strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-109S04Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe principal players in WorldCom's accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan, the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments, external auditor Arthur Andersen, and the board of directors. The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of the pressures that lead executives and managers to "cook the books," the boundary between earnings smoothing or management and fraudulent reporting, the role for internal control sy...Starting at €8.20
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John Deere Component Works (A) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S03Accounting and ControlThe division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with the opportunity to critique a standard cost system and to assess the characteristics of the proposed system that traces costs to production activities.Starting at €8.20
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Componentes de Obras John Deere (B)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S04Accounting and ControlDespués de haber instalado un sistema basado en la actividad, la división está explorando la visión proporcionada por ese sistema. En particular, se estudia la economía del proceso de planificación del tamaño de lote y la gestión de la mezcla de productos.Starting at €5.74
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Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (B) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Ittner, Christopher D.Case HBS-119S20Accounting and ControlA division questions whether to retain, modify, or abandon its cost of quality system now that more direct measures of quality have been adopted. Discusses the role of quality cost measurement in a mature quality management system.Starting at €5.74
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How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Porter, Michael E.Article HBS-R1109BLeadership and People ManagementU.S. health care costs currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. One fundamental reason that providers are unable to reverse the trend is that they don't understand what it costs to deliver patient care or how those costs compare with outcomes. To put it bluntly, few health care providers measure the actual costs for treating a given patient with a given medical condition over a full cycle of care, or compare the costs they incur with the...Starting at €8.20