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Cuando vender activos es una estrategia
Mair, Johanna; Moschieri, CaterinaArticle ART-1970StrategyLa enajenación de parte de una empresa suele malinterpretarse. Se ve como un instrumento al que recurren las grandes empresas para ¿sacar la basura¿, pero lo cierto es que puede ser el resultado de una decisión estratégica rentable tanto para la matriz como para la unidad de negocio de la que se desprende. Las empresas enajenan por razones legales o estratégicas. A su vez, la enajenación puede adoptar muchas formas, entre ellas la creación de una...Starting at €8.20
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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20
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International Expansion of Escuela Nueva: A Transformative Pedagogy on a Global Scale
Hehenberger, Lisa; Moral, N.; Mair, JohannaCase SM-1556-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenging task of expanding the widely successful Escuela Nueva pedagogy on a global scale. Escuela Nueva provides a cost effective, replicable and scalable solution to improve the quality of basic education in low income schools. It started in rural Colombia, but has since expanded principally to a large number of Latin American countries. Evidence shows that wherever Escuela Nueva is implemented, children become ...Starting at €8.20
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LYFEN: Building a Supply Chain to Create Competitive Advantage - Teaching Note
Haitao Yin; Ruiyu Zhu; P. Fraser JohnsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B19D007-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19D007.Starting at €0.00
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Six Sigma at Cintas Corporation
P. Fraser Johnson; Adam BortolussiCase IVEY-9B10D009-EService and Operations ManagementThe green belt specialist at the Cintas Torlake facility near Toronto had four days before he was to present his recommendations to the executive steering committee (ESC) for correcting the capacity problem in the mat department, which was causing product shortages and negatively affecting customer satisfaction. The case provides data that students can use to analyze the processes used at the company for cleaning and replacing mats for its approx...Starting at €8.20
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Medicom: Building A Resilient Supply Chain - Teaching Note
P. Fraser Johnson; Ramasastry ChandrasekharTeaching Note IVEY-8B21D011-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for product 9B21D011.Starting at €0.00
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Medicom: Building A Resilient Supply Chain
P. Fraser Johnson; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B21D011-EService and Operations Management, StrategyGuillaume Laverdure, chief operating officer at Medicom Group (Medicom), was evaluating a potential investment in a new facility that would manufacture melt-blown polypropylene (melt-blown PP), a key raw material for surgical and respirator masks. It wasStarting at €8.20
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CoolIT Systems: Developing an Operations Strategy
P. Fraser Johnson; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B20D019-EService and Operations ManagementIn February 2020, the executive vice-president of Manufacturing and Supply Chain at CoolIT Systems (CoolIT), met with the company's chief executive officer (CEO) in their Calgary office. The company had recently developed a new range of products that provStarting at €8.20
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Project Destiny
P. Fraser Johnson; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B19D005-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementThe president and chief executive officer of Romet Limited, was preparing for a project team meeting that would start at 1:00 p.m. that afternoon. It was Friday April 27, 2018, and he had just finalized the architectural design and layout for the company’s new plant. The lease for the current plant would expire at the end of that year, and he was reviewing the activities required to complete the facility relocation project. The plant relocation w...Starting at €8.20
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Sorel Life Insurance Company: Improving Underwriting Performance
P. Fraser Johnson; Shu ChaCase IVEY-9B19D008-EService and Operations ManagementOn Monday, July 23, 2018, the operations manager at Sorel Life Insurance Company in Montreal, Quebec was preparing for a meeting scheduled for Friday. The meeting was called by her boss, the vice-president of operations, to discuss Sorel’s second quarterStarting at €8.20