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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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Weathering the Storm at NYU Langone Medical Center
Huckman, Robert S.; Sadun, Raffaella; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-616026-EService and Operations ManagementIn the fall of 2012, Hurricane Sandy forced a full evacuation of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. The institution, which comprises NYU Medical School and several teaching hospitals, had been on an upward trajectory for several years under the leadership of Dr. Robert I. Grossman. Grossman's central initiative, which he credited with helping to create a performance-driven, transparency-focused culture was an information technology dash...Starting at €8.20
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Weathering the Storm at NYU Langone Medical Center, Teaching Note
Sadun, Raffaella; Friar, GretaTeaching Note HBS-718506-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for case 616026.Starting at €0.00
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Cataumet Boats, Inc. (Spanish version)
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Davis, MarkCase HBS-917S13Service and Operations ManagementJaime Giancola, un estudiante de MBA, ha completado recientemente un curso de gestión de operaciones en las que la planificación de la producción agregada (APP) fue uno de los temas. Ella cree que que el negocio de su familia, Barcos Cataumet, que sus abuelos se inició, y que su madre y su tío ahora propia, podría beneficiarse de la aplicación de los conceptos de APP para identificar las diferentes formas en que puede programar los trabajadores, ...Starting at €8.20
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Three Jay's Corporation, Teaching Note
Marshall, Paul W.; Davis, MarkTeaching Note HBS-915532-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for Product #915531.Starting at €0.00
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Cataumet Boats, Inc., Teaching Note
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Davis, MarkTeaching Note HBS-917510-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for case 917509.Starting at €0.00
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Three Jays Corporation (Spanish version)
Marshall, Paul W.; Davis, MarkCase HBS-915S15Service and Operations ManagementBrodie Arens is an MBA student and summer intern at Three Jays Corporation, a jam and jelly manufacturer in Michigan. Brodie's first assignment as an intern is to update the inventory and production planning system. Initially, he begins by updating the Economic Order Quantities (EOQ) and Reorder Points (ROP) for each product. However, he soon learns that the formal production planning system was being ignored by the workers on the factory floor. ...Starting at €8.20
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Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management
Sadun, Raffaella; Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, JohnArticle HBS-R1705K-EService and Operations ManagementBusiness schools teach MBA students that you can't compete on the basis of management processes because they're easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, according to the strategists. But data from a decade-long research project involving 12,000 firms challenges that thinking. The study examined how well companies performed 18 core management practices. It found vast differences in how they execute basi...Starting at €8.20
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Cataumet Boats, Inc.
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Davis, MarkCase HBS-917509-EService and Operations ManagementJaime Giancola, an MBA student, has recently completed an operations management course in which aggregate production planning (APP) was one of the topics. She believes that that her family's business, Cataumet Boats, which her grandparents started and which her mother and uncle now own, might benefit from applying APP concepts to identify the different ways they might schedule workers, which could be especially valuable during the peak demand sea...Starting at €8.20