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Supply Chain Collaboration at JD.com
Yinan Qi; Paul W. Beamish; Xin Li; Ke GongCase IVEY-9B21D009-EService and Operations Management, StrategyAt the November 2019 Open Day conference, the vice-president of JD.com shared his understanding of the role that supplier collaboration played in an uncertain environment. Through 15 years of fast growth, JD.com had become the largest business-to-consumer platform in China with more than 30,000 suppliers. Using a boundless retail strategy, JD.com had to build a seamless channel from supplier to customer, which required a close look at how to coll...Starting at €8.20
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Chewy.com (A)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-818079-EService and Operations ManagementIn late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of the fast growing online pet food and pet products retailer Chewy.com, has to make a "bet the company decision"-whether to keep working with Chewy's third-party logistics (3PL) provider to fulfill customer orders, or whether to take this critical function in-house. Cohen worries that the company's 3PL will not be able to serve Chewy's customers as it continues to grow, and reaching scale is essential ...Starting at €8.20
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (A) (Spanish Version)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Gerace, Thomas A.Case HBS-307S15Service and Operations ManagementExamina el crecimiento de la industria editorial de CD-ROM y su impacto en la Enciclopedia Británica Co., que prefirió ignorarlo.Starting at €8.20
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Virtual Vineyards (Spanish version)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Silk, Alvin J.; Gerace, Thomas A.; Klein, Lisa R.Case HBS-317S10Service and Operations ManagementVirtual mercados viñedos vino de pequeños viñedos de California directamente a los consumidores a través de su sitio en la World Wide Web. También facilita el cumplimiento de los pedidos de los clientes. El caso se centra en las formas en que los viñedos virtual proporciona valor a los consumidores finales a través de evaluaciones cofundador accesibles pero informales de Peter Granoff de vinos de las personas y de Internet a través de su electrón...Starting at €8.20
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Firstwell Corporation and the Production Mandate Question
Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B12M024-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyTwo facilities owned by a large U.S.-based multinational enterprise (one in Canada, one in the United States) are competing for a regional manufacturing and distribution mandate. The head of Firstwell’s global operating committee must decide whether the proposal from Firstwell Canada is best not only for the Kingston, Ontario, plant but also for Firstwell Corporation worldwide. The decision could signal a major shift in parent–subsidiary relation...Starting at €8.20
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Mattel and the Toy Recalls (B)
Hari Bapuji; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B08M011-EMarketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case, which outlines the product recall, is a supplement to Mattel and the Toy Recalls (A).Starting at €5.74
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Online Piracy: Jaywalking or Theft
Alex Beamish; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B09C018-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementIn September 2009, Brian Lee purchased a computer game developed by a major company and, like other customers, he was experiencing difficulty running it. The source of the problems was a highly restrictive system of digital rights management (DRM), which, while more or less universally disliked, was causing serious technical problems for a minority of users. Lee began to share his experience on the company's message board and was engaging in a de...Starting at €8.20
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Chewy.com (B)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-818105-EService and Operations ManagementCohen and Chewy's other board members decided to fully insource order fulfilment, and commenced building an order fulfilment center near its 3PL partner's facility. As soon as the 3PL learned that Chewy would be managing its own order fulfilment, however, it decided to triple what it charged Chewy to fulfill each order. What should Chewy do?Starting at €5.74
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Motive Communications (Spanish Version)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Iansiti, Marco; Hart, Myra M.; Chan, William; Findsen, FindCase HBS-603S08Service and Operations ManagementLos fundadores de Motive Communications, Inc., una reciente puesta en marcha dedicados a reinventar la cadena de soporte involucrados en la prestación de servicios de apoyo de tecnología de información, poner en marcha un proceso de desarrollo dependían de una amplia retroalimentación del cliente. Como parte de esto, un grupo selecto de "faro clientes" acordó pagar $ 50.000 a participar en la prueba beta - sino como una fecha límite se acercaba, ...Starting at €8.20
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OpenNotes
Rayport, Jeffrey; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-817080-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing doctors' visit notes about patients with patients, were considering options in efforts to achieve scale. The movement hoped to reach 50 million patients by 2020. One opportunity was building an OpenNotes app for smartphones, in which patients could access their visit notes on their phones through an app compatible with Apple C...Starting at €8.20