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PATH and the Safe Water Project: Making Safe Water Products More Affordable
Zenios S; Denend L; Elliott TCase SGSB-OIT109-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementThis case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to evaluate to what extent market-based approaches could help accelerate the widespread adoption and sustained use of household water treatment and safe storage products by low-income ...Starting at €8.20
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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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Google Car
Lakhani, Karim R.; Weber, James; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-614022-EService and Operations ManagementBy 2013, Google, while not a traditional manufacturer of automobiles, had invested millions of dollars in its self-driving cars which had logged over 500,000 miles of testing. The Google management team faced several questions. Should Google continue to invest in the technology behind self-driving cars? How could Google's core software-based and search business benefit from self-driving car technology? As large auto manufacturers began to invest ...Starting at €8.20
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The Thermostat Industry: Transformation from Analog to Digital
Lakhani, Karim R.; Herman, Kerry; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-615038-EService and Operations ManagementThis note examines the evolution of the thermostat industry as it transitioned from analog to digital technologies. It presents an overview of key industry participants and the shift in value creation and value capture models for firms.Starting at €8.20
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Viacom: Democratization of Data Science
Greenstein, Shane; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-618016-EService and Operations ManagementIn two short years, Viacom's Data Science & Advanced Analytics team built a web platform called Science Central that allowed employees from Viacom's 20+ cable networks to access television audience insights through three data science apps. In the past, employees would have approached the team to carry out these requests. Vice President of Data and Audience Development Fabio Luzzi, who oversaw the 10-person team, believed that making data science ...Starting at €8.20
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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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Google Car (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Weber, James; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-616S06Service and Operations ManagementBy 2013, Google, while not a traditional manufacturer of automobiles, had invested millions of dollars in its self-driving cars which had logged over 500,000 miles of testing. The Google management team faced several questions. Should Google continue to invest in the technology behind self-driving cars? How could Google's core software-based and search business benefit from self-driving car technology? As large auto manufacturers began to invest ...Starting at €8.20