Ivey Business School (Canada)
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A Note on Queuing Models
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesTechnical Note IVEY-9B19E006-EDecision AnalysisQueues (or waiting lines) are common in modern life. We wait in lines at the campus cafeteria, to board an airplane, in the emergency room, and when we call a company for customer service. We even wait for applications to be initiated and processed by our smartphone processors, and our online orders wait to be fulfilled at companies’ warehouses before being shipped to us. How long we wait in line depends on several factors and parameters. It may ...Starting at €8.20
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Panda Base: Digital Transformation for Wildlife Conservation
Man Zhao; Yang Chen; Carol Hsu; Ning Su; Guiyao TangCase IVEY-9B20E012-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (Panda Base), located in Chengdu, China, was the world’s most popular scenic spot for giant panda tourism. Panda Base was founded in 1987 with a mission that included the protection and breeding of the endangered giant panda, scientific research, public education, and cultural tourism. In 2002, the director of Panda Base began to build panda culture and the panda brand in an effort to resolve low ...Starting at €8.20
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Mobile Blood Donor Clinic: A Discrete Event Simulation Model
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B17E010-ECorporate GovernanceIn 2017, while donating blood on campus, a management science graduate student noticed that the mobile blood donor clinic set up at his university’s community centre was a congested tandem queuing system. Finding one-and-one-half hours too long for donors to wait, the student considered how the process could be reduced by at least half an hour. He needed to devise a reasonably precise model to represent the donor flow in the clinic. Using either ...Starting at €8.20
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IA Clarington: Target Click Funds
Chuck Grace; James A. Erskine; Michiel R. LeendersCase IVEY-9B09N022-EFinanceIn October 2008, the senior vice-president for product and business development at IA Clarington (IAC), a life and health insurance company, was preparing for a meeting with the president of IAC. The topic of discussion would be IAC's Target Click Fund, a mutual fund with an options-based guarantee structure targeted towards investors who were looking for growth along with capital preservation. The vice-president had been asked to render his opin...Starting at €8.20
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Greaves Brewery (A) (Spanish version)
Michiel R. Leenders; James A. ErskineCase IVEY-9A92DS02Service and Operations Management, StrategyUna expansión en la planta de embotellado de una cervecera conduce a una nueva evaluación de la operación de paletizado manual. Es posible comprar un costoso equipo automático donde también esta involucrada la elección del proveedor.Starting at €8.20
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Understanding Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Hotel Booking
Rasha Kashef; Sakariya AhmedCase IVEY-9B19E019-EDecision AnalysisA management science professor had an unpleasant experience with a hotel she stayed at in New York City. Consequently, she wanted to figure out if hotel ratings were enough to recommend a hotel, or if customers’ text reviews could be used as more importanStarting at €8.20
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Understanding Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Hotel Booking - Teaching Note
Rasha Kashef; Sakariya AhmedTeaching Note IVEY-8B19E019-EDecision AnalysisTeaching note for product 9B19E019.Starting at €0.00
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South West Health Centre: Improving Patient Flow in the Intensive Care Unit
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B19E007-EDecision AnalysisHospitals frequently deal with congestion and blockage that affects patient flow and increased costs. In 2018, at University Hospital, part of South West Health Centre, patient flow in the medical surgical intensive care unit seemed to be highly susceptible to congestion, and this was creating ripple effects throughout the hospital and leading to increased costs. The complexity of patient flow presented an opportunity to build a discrete-event si...Starting at €8.20
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Panda Base: Digital Transformation for Wildlife Conservation - Teaching Note
Man Zhao; Yang Chen; Carol Hsu; Ning Su; Guiyao TangTeaching Note IVEY-8B20E012-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching note for product 9B20E012.Starting at €0.00
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Lockhurst Hotels International (Spanish version)
Michiel R. LeendersCase IVEY-9A83DS04Service and Operations ManagementEl vicepresidente de las operaciones canadienses de Lockhurst Hotels International enfrenta la siguiente situación: el director de las operaciones en Ontario había recibido una oferta de trabajo con otra cadena de hoteles con un salario anual de U$15,000 sobre su sueldo actual. El vicepresidente se pregunta que acción, si alguna, debe tomar.Starting at €8.20