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Acesur - Nota del Instructor
Garrido Martinez, E.; Gómez González, C.Teaching Note IIST-PITN-187Service and Operations ManagementEste caso describe la historia de ACESUR, empresa dedicada, desde 1840, a la producción, envasado y comercialización de aceite de oliva, así como una larga tradición en el sector de los aceites vegetales. Una experiencia que la ha afianzado como líder en el sector del aceite de oliva y girasol en España, con exportaciones a cerca de un centenar de países de todo el mundo. En 2018, ante la volatilidad del precio en la materia prima y los requerimi...Starting at €0.00
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The Transit Point Experiment (Spanish version)
Hammond, Janice H.; Kelly, MauraCase HBS-615S09Service and Operations ManagementMerloni Elettrodomestici is a leading Italian manufacturer of domestic appliances. In 1986, an exposition for Merloni customers is scheduled at its Milano regional warehouse. During the two-month period preceding the event, when the warehouse must be free of inventory, the company conducts a "transit point" experiment. Each day, a truckload of products from the company's central warehouse is sent to Milano, where it is immediately transferred to ...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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La Transformación Operativa de la fábrica de Nestlé de la Penilla. Nota del Instructor
Garrido Martinez, E.; Gómez González, C.Teaching Note IIST-PITN-167Service and Operations ManagementBajo la iniciativa corporativa Nestlé Continuous Excellence, la Fábrica de La Penilla había transformado su forma de trabajar en la línea de tabletas de chocolate. La mejora en eficiencia, flexibilidad y tiempo de respuesta eran evidentes, pero lo más importante había sido el cambio en la forma de trabajar y el cambio cultural que había supuesto la transformación. El caso describe el proceso de transformación y permite, por un lado, aprender de l...Starting at €0.00
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Acesur
Garrido Martinez, E.; Gómez González, C.Case IIST-PI-187Service and Operations ManagementEste caso describe la historia de ACESUR, empresa dedicada, desde 1840, a la producción, envasado y comercialización de aceite de oliva, así como una larga tradición en el sector de los aceites vegetales. Una experiencia que la ha afianzado como líder en el sector del aceite de oliva y girasol en España, con exportaciones a cerca de un centenar de países de todo el mundo. En 2018, ante la volatilidad del precio en la materia prima y los requerimi...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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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