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United Breaks Guitars
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-202-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementUnited Continental Holdings, generally referred to as United for short, is one of the largest airlines in the world. Although it has its headquarters in Chicago (Illinois, United States), it operates nine different hubs, the other eight being Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark (New Jersey), San Francisco, Tokyo (Japan) and Washington D.C. Like many companies in the transport sector, United claims: ?Our goal is to make every flight a posit...Starting at €8.20
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Premià de Dalt (A and B) - Teaching Note: Privatization in the Name of Security
Giuseppe Giura; Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-25-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, the people of Premià de Dalt, a small town north of Barcelona (Spain), started to be seriously concerned about security. Indeed, the local police (Policia Urbana) had received an anomalously high number of reports of home burglaries. The mayor of the city was urged to find an immediate and effective solution. This situation was part of a much larger problem affecting Barcelona's metropolitan area. Most of the responsibility for security ...Starting at €0.00
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Premià de Dalt (B): Privatization in the Name of Security
Giuseppe Giura; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-209-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, the people of Premià de Dalt, a small town north of Barcelona (Spain), started to be seriously concerned about security. Indeed, the local police (Policia Urbana) had received an anomalously high number of reports of home burglaries. The mayor of the city was urged to find an immediate and effective solution. This situation was part of a much larger problem affecting Barcelona's metropolitan area. Most of the responsibility for security ...Starting at €5.74
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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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United rompe guitarras
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-202Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Service and Operations ManagementUnited Continental Holdings, llamada generalmente por la forma abreviada United, es una de las mayores aerolíneas del mundo. A pesar de tener la sede central en Chicago (Illinois, Estados Unidos), opera en ocho aeropuertos más: Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Ángeles, Newark (Nueva Jersey), San Francisco, Tokio (Japón) y Washington, D.C., lo que supone un total de nueve aeropuertos diferentes. Como muchas compañías del sector del transporte, United af...Starting at €8.20
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Viterra
Goldberg, Ray A.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-913401-EService and Operations ManagementAs Mayo Schmidt's tenure as CEO of the Canadian-based agribusiness Viterra wound down before its sale to the Swiss-based commodity company Glencore, he reflected on his tenure, which had seen the firm grow from a Canadian-focused agricultural cooperative to an international agribusiness with operations across the globe, including significant operations in Australia. Now he wondered: What would the future hold for agriculture?Starting at €8.20
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Viterra, Teaching Note
Goldberg, Ray A.Teaching Note HBS-913403-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for case 913401.Starting at €0.00
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Premià de Dalt (A): Privatization in the Name of Security
Giuseppe Giura; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-208-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2018, the people of Premià de Dalt, a small town north of Barcelona (Spain), started to be seriously concerned about security. Indeed, the local police (Policia Urbana) had received an anomalously high number of reports of home burglaries. The mayor of the city was urged to find an immediate and effective solution. This situation was part of a much larger problem affecting Barcelona's metropolitan area. Most of the responsibility for security ...Starting at €8.20
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IdentiGEN
Goldberg, Ray A.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-914408-EService and Operations ManagementCiaran Meghen and Ronan Loftus, co-founders of IdentiGEN (an Irish company that had created a unique service called DNA TraceBack to help customers identify and trace meat products), were discussing the company's future. The recent crisis over beef products being contaminated with horsemeat in Europe had generated strong demand for IdentiGEN's services. But more than this, DNA TraceBack gave customers strong insight into their operations to ensur...Starting at €8.20
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IdentiGEN, Teaching Plan
Goldberg, Ray A.; Preble, MatthewTeaching Note HBS-914410-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for 914408.Starting at €0.00