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Gestión del crédito a clientes: perspectiva de negocio y jurídica
Segarra, José Antonio; Sbert, HéctorTechnical Note JN-31Finance, Service and Operations ManagementEl decalaje o desajuste entre las operaciones ordinarias de negocio y su ciclo financiero da lugar a la aparición de circulantes. Los circulantes suponen siempre la afloración de costes financieros explícitos o de oportunidad y riesgos de que esas operaciones de negocio no acaben en su destino final, que no es otro que la caja. La nota aborda la gestión de los riesgos de crédito a clientes desde la perspectiva de negocio, aportando políticas prev...Starting at €8.20
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Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy
Porter, Michael E.; Baron, Jennifer F.Case HBS-709458-EService and Operations ManagementPitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the years following World War II. Over the ensuing decades, Pitney Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes towards health benefits, and a rapidly changing policy environment. By 2008, the firm was widely regarded as an innovator in employee health, having dedicated substantial time and r...Starting at €8.20
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Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care, Teaching Note
Porter, Michael E.; Baron, Jennifer F.Teaching Note HBS-709467-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [708502].Starting at €0.00
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Commercial Decisions and Quantitative Analysis
Segarra, José AntonioTechnical Note MN-396-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Port Aventura
Huete, Luis María; Kuppers V.; Segarra, José AntonioCase P-891-EService and Operations ManagementPortaventura faced the "champagne effect" in its second season. This consisted of a drop in the number of visitors, which all theme parks and amusement parks experienced in their second year of operations once the novelty had worn off. Portaventura decided to avoid this effect. In fact, their plans were ambitious: to achieve more than 3 million visitors, improve the yield of the project and create the best conditions for shareholders so that they...Starting at €8.20
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Port Aventura
Huete, Luis María; Kuppers V.; Segarra, José AntonioCase P-891Service and Operations ManagementPort Aventura se enfrenta al "efecto champán" en su segunda temporada. Este fenómeno consistía en la bajada del número de visitantes que históricamente experimentaban todos los parques temáticos y de atracciones en su segundo año de operaciones, una vez disipada la curiosidad de la novedad. Port Aventura estaba decidida a que no le ocurriese lo mismo. De hecho sus planes eran ambiciosos: superar con creces los tres millones de visitantes, mejorar...Starting at €8.20
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Decisiones comerciales y análisis cuantitativos
Segarra, José AntonioTechnical Note MN-396Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementNota para acompañar durante las primeras sesiones de un curso introductorio de dirección comercial, con el objetivo de exponer los aspectos analíticos cuantitativos más básicos. La nota describe los cálculos fundamentales para tomar decisiones de dirección comercial. Se describen los distintos tipos de costes, el margen de contribución y el punto de equilibrio. Además, se resuelve un ejemplo concreto y, en el Anexo, se plantea un problema compl...Starting at €8.20
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Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care
Porter, Michael E.; Baron, Jennifer F.Case HBS-708502-EService and Operations ManagementIndividuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, known as dual eligibles, are among the highest-cost beneficiaries in the US. Commonwealth Care Alliance, a small nonprofit insurer and care delivery system in Massachusetts, operated under a public demonstration program designed to provide comprehensive coverage and care for the elderly dual eligible population. Led by Dr. Robert Master, Commonwealth Care Alliance worked with its contracted prov...Starting at €8.20
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Customer Debt Management: A Business-Legal Perspective
Segarra, José Antonio; Sbert, HéctorTechnical Note JN-31-EFinance, Service and Operations ManagementThe discord or disunity between ordinary business transactions and the financial cycle gives rise to current assets. Current assets necessarily entail direct financing costs or opportunity costs, as well as the risk that these transactions do not end up at their final destination: the cash account. This note addresses customer debt risk management and recommends preventive and remedial policies from a business perspective and surveys the protecti...Starting at €8.20
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Introducción a las decisiones en la dirección comercial
Segarra, José AntonioTechnical Note MN-397Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementLa presente nota técnica de apoyo para cursos introductorios a la dirección comercial analiza las decisiones fundamentales que deben tomarse en dicho ámbito. La selección de los clientes, el diseño de la propuesta de valor y los medios que hay que desplegar para acceder al mercado constituyen su hilo conductor y, en ella, se describe brevemente el sistema comercial compuesto por las compañías, los clientes, los canales y los competidores. Finalm...Starting at €8.20