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Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A) (Spanish version)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Cohen, Wesley M.; Ingram, Kynon; Kothalkar, Tushar; Kuzemchenko, Maxim; Malik, Santosh; Meyn, Cynthia; Friar, Greta; Pokrywa, Stephanie HealyCase HBS-615S16Service and Operations ManagementIn 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings deterStarting at €8.20
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The Morrison Company (Spanish version)
Wheelwright, Steven C.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-413S16Service and Operations ManagementThe Morrison Company develops and manufactures radio frequency identification tags (RFID) known as "smart labels" for the retail and pharmaceutical industries. RFID technology is a fast-growing and increasingly competitive industry. Sales have risen dramatically over the past year and production levels have had to increase to meet monthly and quarterly shipping targets. However, the increase has exacerbated existing manufacturing problems and has...Starting at €8.20
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Why You Need to Align Your Business With the Biosphere's Rules
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5934BC-EService and Operations ManagementDon't use too many fossil fuels. Don't waste paper. For years, companies have been hearing what not to do when it comes to making their business practices more sustainable. But what can you do to make your company both ecologically responsible and financially profitable? Turn to the oldest model of efficient profit-making in existence: the Earth. The same principles that allow nature to continuously produce value are the same ones that will help ...Starting at €8.20
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Power Autonomy: Using the Biosphere's Rules to Renew Your Company With Renewable Energy
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5938BC-EService and Operations ManagementExcessive global dependence on fossil fuels is a zero-sum competition that can cost your business dearly. While scientists may disagree about the impact of current levels of climate-changing greenhouse gases, they are essentially unanimous that the forecasted increases will be environmentally ruinous-and potentially ruinous for your company's productivity and reputation. Just as plants carry their energy technology within their structure, your co...Starting at €8.20
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Building the Ecosystem: A Lesson from the Biosphere-Your Business's Green Growth Can Cause Creative Destruction in Your Industry
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5946BC-EService and Operations ManagementThe process of release and restructuring-of creative destruction-is what keeps the biosphere productive and allows it to fill even the most extreme environments. As you steer your business toward green growth, you may be undertaking innovations that can foster similar destruction in your industry. You don't have to wait for conditions to change, however, because business doesn't respond only to the external environment. This chapter outlines how ...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Cohen, Wesley M.; Ingram, Kynon; Kothalkar, Tushar; Kuzemchenko, Maxim; Malik, Santosh; Meyn, Cynthia; Friar, Greta; Pokrywa, Stephanie HealyCase HBS-615015-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings deterStarting at €8.20
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Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (B)
Lakhani, Karim R.; Cohen, Wesley M.; Ingram, Kynon; Kothalkar, Tushar; Kuzemchenko, Maxim; Malik, SantoshCase HBS-615025-EService and Operations ManagementThis supplemental case follows up on the Netflix Prize Contest described in Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A). In the A case, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must decide how to organize a crowdsourcing contest to improve the algorithms for Netflix's movie recommendation software. The B case follows the contest from the building of the platform in 2006 to the awarding of the highest prize in 2009. The B cause also considers the aftermath of the c...Starting at €5.74
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The Morrison Company, Teaching Note
Wheelwright, Steven C.; Myers, Paul S.Teaching Note HBS-4565-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for 4564.Starting at €0.00
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The Morrison Company
Wheelwright, Steven C.; Myers, Paul S.Case HBS-4564-EService and Operations ManagementThe Morrison Company develops and manufactures radio frequency identification tags (RFID) known as "smart labels" for the retail and pharmaceutical industries. RFID technology is a fast-growing and increasingly competitive industry. Sales have risen dramatically over the past year and production levels have had to increase to meet monthly and quarterly shipping targets. However, the increase has exacerbated existing manufacturing problems and has...Starting at €8.20
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Value Cycles: Use Nature's Value-Adding Self-Sustaining Cycle to Revolutionize Your Value Chain
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5939BC-EService and Operations ManagementThe value chain model has long served the needs of business production, but today we know it is built on faulty assumptions about what happens at both ends of the chain-inputs won't always be abundant and cheap and the environment cannot limitlessly accept the consumer and industrial waste at the other end. Now compare this overtaxed and costly model to nature's value cycle in which literally everything we see is made of recycled elements which h...Starting at €8.20