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Making Virtual Reality Real
Zhu, Feng; Mehta, Sarah; Lane, DavidCase HBS-617013-EService and Operations ManagementThis note describes virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, and describes the main consumer products on offer in 2016 and their manufacturers. It also surveys existing applications of virtual and augment reality technologies.Starting at €8.20
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Honda Canada (A): Tsunami and Communications
Mary Weil; Dina Ribbink; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16D004-EService and Operations Management, StrategyHonda Canada was coping with a communications and supply chain crisis after a triple disaster — an earthquake followed by a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown — that hit Japan in March 2011. Honda’s worldwide supply chain was characterized by a just-in-time, single-source approach, wherein the supplier for each component provided the best quality at the lowest price. The approach normally ensured economies of scale but now, in an abnormal time, Honda...Starting at €8.20
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Sunset Grill at Blue
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Dina Ribbink; Jason MelhuishCase IVEY-9B10D015-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementA partner and owner of the Sunset Grill at Blue Mountain in the ski village at Blue Mountain, Ontario, had very mixed emotions. The restaurant had just finished its first year of operation and had broken even, and had been named as the Business of the Year in the counties of Simcoe and Grey. Yet the owner knew that operations were still far from perfect. Queues of waiting customers were very long, food orders were delivered slowly, and tensions w...Starting at €8.20
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Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future
Stern, Ariel D.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-618025-EService and Operations ManagementIn July 2017, Dr. Brian M. Alexander, president and CEO of the AGILE Research Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial-an adaptive platform trial-to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer. Alexander believed that the standard way in which new cancer drugs were tested-the traditional randomized controlled trial (RCT)-was limited in many ways. While statistically rigorous and s...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL
Farronato, Chiara; MacCormack, Alan; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-619003-EService and Operations ManagementSet in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This product offers a reduced price to riders willing to carpool, walk a short distance to/from their pick-up and drop-off points, and wait a few minutes before being matched to a driver. Two weeks after the launch of Express POOL in six U.S. cities, Uber's product managers discover that if riders are made to wait five minu...Starting at €8.20
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Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships, Teaching Note
Stern, Ariel D.; Mehta, SarahTeaching Note HBS-620002-EService and Operations ManagementThis teaching note accompanies case no. 619-017, "Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships."Starting at €0.00
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Athletic Knit
David Wood; Dina RibbinkCase IVEY-9B12D020-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementThis case investigates issues of obsolescence and inventory control in a local sportswear company that is competing on the global stage with both multinational corporations and foreign, low-cost distributors. Athletic Knit, a family-owned company in Toronto, faces the need to balance peak-season demand during the third quarter of the year with the available knitting production capacity. Inventory, if it serves a purpose, can be an asset to a comp...Starting at €8.20
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Honda Canada (B): Tsunami and Sourcing Disruption
Mary Weil; Dina Ribbink; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16D005-EService and Operations Management, StrategySupplement to be used with 9B16D004.Starting at €5.74
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Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships
Stern, Ariel D.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-619017-EService and Operations ManagementIn September 2018, the executive team at Ariadne Labs (Ariadne), a Boston-based organization dedicated to improving health systems through the discovery and implementation of simple tools, faced a number of strategic decisions. Chief among them, the seven-year-old organization needed to determine how it might establish and shepherd successful partnerships with a wide range of diverse entities-ranging from major international public health organiz...Starting at €8.20