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Canyon Mining Corporation: Heavy Mobile Equipment Procurement
Laseter, Timothy M.; Katz, Arnon; Choi, SihyunCase DARDEN-OM-1392-EService and Operations ManagementCanyon Mining intends to negotiate a long-term contract for haul trucks to use for surface mining, and a team from Censeo Consulting Group is tasked with developing a methodology to track cost changes over the past contract as input into the negotiation. The current project’s primary objective is to estimate the year-over-year trend in factory manufacturing margins for two different capacity trucks from two different equipment suppliers. These es...Starting at €8.20
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Port Aventura
Huete, Luis María; Kuppers V.; Segarra, José AntonioCase P-891Service and Operations ManagementPort Aventura se enfrenta al "efecto champán" en su segunda temporada. Este fenómeno consistía en la bajada del número de visitantes que históricamente experimentaban todos los parques temáticos y de atracciones en su segundo año de operaciones, una vez disipada la curiosidad de la novedad. Port Aventura estaba decidida a que no le ocurriese lo mismo. De hecho sus planes eran ambiciosos: superar con creces los tres millones de visitantes, mejorar...Starting at €8.20
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Port Aventura
Huete, Luis María; Kuppers V.; Segarra, José AntonioCase P-891-EService and Operations ManagementPortaventura faced the "champagne effect" in its second season. This consisted of a drop in the number of visitors, which all theme parks and amusement parks experienced in their second year of operations once the novelty had worn off. Portaventura decided to avoid this effect. In fact, their plans were ambitious: to achieve more than 3 million visitors, improve the yield of the project and create the best conditions for shareholders so that they...Starting at €8.20
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Hotel Arts Barcelona. El estilo Ritz-Carlton en Europa
Huete, Luis María; Kuppers V.Case P-893Service and Operations ManagementEn noviembre de 1996 muchos empleados cumplirían tres años en el hotel y, por lo tanto, podrían pasar a tener el status de empleados fijos. La empresa barajaba la posibilidad de que las personas que estaban haciendo bien su trabajo pasaran a ser fijos. Ello supondría aceptar un importante pasivo laboral. El caso plantea el problema de qué decisión tomar ante dicho dilema. El caso describe el enfoque de gestión de la calidad de los servicios de Ri...Starting at €8.20
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Hotel Arts Barcelona. The Ritz-Carlton style in Europe
Huete, Luis María; Kuppers V.Case P-893-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Product–Market Alignment
Markou, Panos; Chao, Raul O.; Goldberg, Rebecca; Katz, Arnon; Kelly, A. MorganTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1706-EService and Operations ManagementThe ability to achieve product–market alignment (PMA) differentiates businesses that will thrive from those that will fail. Yet many find it difficult to create—and sustain—products that continuously generate value, even as their markets change. Traditionally, managers seeking to develop new products or reexamine current offerings have relied on frameworks that compare customer views on the desirability of various product features to the financia...Starting at €8.20