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United Breaks Guitars
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-202-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementUnited Continental Holdings, generally referred to as United for short, is one of the largest airlines in the world. Although it has its headquarters in Chicago (Illinois, United States), it operates nine different hubs, the other eight being Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark (New Jersey), San Francisco, Tokyo (Japan) and Washington D.C. Like many companies in the transport sector, United claims: ?Our goal is to make every flight a posit...Starting at €8.20
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Premià de Dalt (A and B) - Teaching Note: Privatization in the Name of Security
Giuseppe Giura; Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-25-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, the people of Premià de Dalt, a small town north of Barcelona (Spain), started to be seriously concerned about security. Indeed, the local police (Policia Urbana) had received an anomalously high number of reports of home burglaries. The mayor of the city was urged to find an immediate and effective solution. This situation was part of a much larger problem affecting Barcelona's metropolitan area. Most of the responsibility for security ...Starting at €0.00
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Premià de Dalt (B): Privatization in the Name of Security
Giuseppe Giura; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-209-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, the people of Premià de Dalt, a small town north of Barcelona (Spain), started to be seriously concerned about security. Indeed, the local police (Policia Urbana) had received an anomalously high number of reports of home burglaries. The mayor of the city was urged to find an immediate and effective solution. This situation was part of a much larger problem affecting Barcelona's metropolitan area. Most of the responsibility for security ...Starting at €5.74
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Clínicas Buenavista: Information for the Medical Director
Stein, Guido; Cebrecos, EnriqueCase E-127-EService and Operations ManagementThe following Wednesday Dr. Mackay, medical director and major shareholder in the Clínicas Buenavista was to have a meeting with Alejandro Lanzagorta, Business Manager at Eye Care, to negotiate lens prices for 2009. He had already told him on the phone that the group's buying potential was 4,000 multifocal lenses and 8,000 monofocal lenses so he should make a suitable offer, as they want to finalize the decision as soon as possible. However they ...Starting at €8.20
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Lentes multifocales de Eye Care: Información del Business Manager
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase E-128Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementEl lunes 12 de enero de 2009, El director médico de Buenavista acababa de llamar a Alejandro solicitando una oferta para 4.000 lentes multifocales DifraCare y 8.000 monofocales MonoCare. Después de meses de un cuidadoso trabajo de preparación, Alejandro Lanzagorta , Business Manager de Eye Care, empresa líder en el desarrollo y comercialización de productos ofálmicos, finalmente iba a lograr sentar a negociar al Dr Rud Mackay, director médico y ...Starting at €8.20
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Administration: Organizing and Governing Innovation
Terwiesch, Christian; Ulrich, Karl T.Book Chapter HBS-3446BC-EService and Operations ManagementInnovation isn't just hoping for serendipity and counting on random inspirations--innovation can be managed as a process. Organizational decisions therefore must be made for innovation processes, and yet too often companies fail to make them. As a result, their decisions end up being made informally--if at all. This chapter focuses on four critical decisions that should shape the organization and governance of your innovation process. This chapte...Starting at €8.20
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United rompe guitarras
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-202Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementUnited Continental Holdings, llamada generalmente por la forma abreviada United, es una de las mayores aerolíneas del mundo. A pesar de tener la sede central en Chicago (Illinois, Estados Unidos), opera en ocho aeropuertos más: Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Ángeles, Newark (Nueva Jersey), San Francisco, Tokio (Japón) y Washington, D.C., lo que supone un total de nueve aeropuertos diferentes. Como muchas compañías del sector del transporte, United af...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction: Innovation Tournaments Help to Identify Exceptional Opportunities
Terwiesch, Christian; Ulrich, Karl T.Book Chapter HBS-3418BC-EService and Operations ManagementIn the game of innovation, no bet comes with a guarantee--there will always be risk involved. But that doesn't mean you can't become a better player by shifting the odds in your favor. Although some individual innovations can have fantastic returns, simply spending more on innovation overall won't necessarily lead to increased profits. A tool called the "return curve" will help you see the differences between marginal innovation opportunities and...Starting at €8.20
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Short-Term Profitability: Analyzing Near-Horizon Opportunities
Terwiesch, Christian; Ulrich, Karl T.Book Chapter HBS-3442BC-EService and Operations ManagementInnovation aims to create exceptional value. Deciding which of your opportunities is truly exceptional is thus a critical element of the innovation process. In the early rounds of an innovation tournament, opportunities with the most promise are identified subjectively, but in the later rounds, when the field of opportunities has narrowed, you should augment and enhance your subjective judgments with quantitative analysis. This chapter provides t...Starting at €8.20
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Interdependence: Forming Opportunity Portfolios--Understanding Innovations in Context
Terwiesch, Christian; Ulrich, Karl T.Book Chapter HBS-3443BC-EService and Operations ManagementYou can't maximize the success of a soccer team by hiring the best individual players. Similarly, you don't obtain the best innovation portfolio by picking those opportunities that are--in isolation--the most valuable. Considering each opportunity independently and simply selecting the most valuable ones fails because of interdependencies among them. Portfolio management, therefore, is about understanding interdependencies. This chapter introduce...Starting at €8.20