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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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Supply Chain Management at World Co. Ltd. (Spanish Version)
Raman, Ananth; McClelland, Anna; Fisher, Marshall L.Case HBS-603S07Service and Operations ManagementDescribe una cadena de suministro con (es decir, dos semanas) tiempos de respuesta muy rápidos y permite a los estudiantes explorar cómo tal se consiguen tiempos de respuesta cortos. Permite a los estudiantes explorar qué otras cadenas de suministro, con mucho los tiempos de respuesta más largos, podrían no ser capaces de replicar esta actuación.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
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Function over Form: Using Nature's Rules to Fulfill Customers' Functional Needs and Achieve Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Unruh, Gregory C.Book Chapter HBS-5945BC-EService and Operations ManagementIf you have already developed a sustainable product platform based on an economically viable value cycle, your traditional business model may no longer serve the full needs of your business. When you are selling a product that you want to recover in the future in order to provide the raw materials necessary for the next production cycle, what exactly is happening in the sales transaction? You need to adopt a business model that takes this recover...Starting at €8.20
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The Biosphere Rules
Unruh, Gregory C.Article HBS-R0802H-EService and Operations ManagementSustainability, defined by natural scientists as the capacity of healthy ecosystems to function indefinitely, has become a clarion call for business. Leading companies have taken high-profile steps toward achieving it: Wal-Mart, for example, with its efforts to reduce packaging waste, and Nike, which has removed toxic chemicals from its shoes. But, says Unruh, the director of Thunderbird's Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management, sustainab...Starting at €8.20
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Lean Airbus Operations. La experiencia de la Planta de Puerto Real (Cádiz-España)
Gómez del Sol, R.Case IIST-PI-140Service and Operations ManagementEl caso describe la experiencia de la planta de Airbus Puerto Real en los dos primeros proyectos de implantación de Lean. Las reticencias iniciales de los mandos y trabajadores de la planta, la metodología de trabajo empleada, los equipos de trabajo y las áreas de mejora abordadas. Finalmente, el director de la planta se cuestiona qué tendrán que hacer y cómo, para conseguir los resultados en los plazos que la dirección de operaciones de la compa...Starting at €8.20
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Process analysis: Terms, basic concepts and tools
Gómez del Sol, R.Technical Note IIST-PIN-25-E-EService and Operations ManagementFirst, the document lists the way companies compete and the operational capabilities they need for competing. The example of a custom framing business is used to explain useful concepts and tools in the analysis of processes. A process flowchart is used to define the concepts of operations and resources. Operation times, resource occupation times, as well as process and cycle times, are defined using a table that includes operations, resources, a...Starting at €8.20
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Las reglas de la biosfera
Unruh, Gregory C.Article HBS-R0802HService and Operations ManagementSostenibilidad, definido por los científicos naturales como la capacidad de los ecosistemas saludables para funcionar indefinidamente, se ha convertido en un llamado de atención para los negocios. Las empresas líderes han tomado medidas de alto nivel para lograr que: Wal-Mart, por ejemplo, con sus esfuerzos para reducir los residuos de envases, y Nike, que ha eliminado los productos químicos tóxicos de sus zapatos. Pero, dice Unruh, el director d...Starting at €8.20