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Clínicas Buenavista: Information for the Medical Director
Stein, Guido; Cebrecos, EnriqueCase E-127-EService and Operations ManagementThe following Wednesday Dr. Mackay, medical director and major shareholder in the Clínicas Buenavista was to have a meeting with Alejandro Lanzagorta, Business Manager at Eye Care, to negotiate lens prices for 2009. He had already told him on the phone that the group's buying potential was 4,000 multifocal lenses and 8,000 monofocal lenses so he should make a suitable offer, as they want to finalize the decision as soon as possible. However they ...Starting at €8.20
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Marriott International: The Next 90 Years, Teaching Note
Farronato, ChiaraTeaching Note HBS-620131-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for case 618017.Starting at €0.00
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Lentes multifocales de Eye Care: Información del Business Manager
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase E-128Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementEl lunes 12 de enero de 2009, El director médico de Buenavista acababa de llamar a Alejandro solicitando una oferta para 4.000 lentes multifocales DifraCare y 8.000 monofocales MonoCare. Después de meses de un cuidadoso trabajo de preparación, Alejandro Lanzagorta , Business Manager de Eye Care, empresa líder en el desarrollo y comercialización de productos ofálmicos, finalmente iba a lograr sentar a negociar al Dr Rud Mackay, director médico y ...Starting at €8.20
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Criterios de decisión de un inversor: Warren Buffett
Stein, Guido; García de Santos, TeresaTechnical Note DPON-358Decision Analysis, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementEsta nota técnica subraya el papel de los criterios en la toma de decisiones. Según el Diccionario de la Lengua de la Real Academia Española, la primera acepción de criterio es la de "norma para conocer la verdad"; en una segunda acepción, se indica "juicio o discernimiento" y, entre sus sinónimos, se encuentran "cordura" y "sensatez". El objetivo es dar a conocer los criterios de decisión que, durante décadas y décadas, ha ido puliendo Warren Bu...Starting at €8.20
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Comparing Two Groups: Sampling and t-Testing
Bojinov, Iavor; Farronato, Chiara; Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Shih, Willy; Toffel, Michael W.Case HBS-621044-EService and Operations ManagementThis note describes sampling and t-tests, two fundamental statistical concepts.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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Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform
Farronato, Chiara; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-619019-EService and Operations ManagementLexoo, a UK-based online marketplace for legal services, was facing the strategic choice of how to grow from early start-up to mature platform. Daniel van Binsbergen, Lexoo's CEO, and web developer Chris O'Sullivan, CTO, had set up Lexoo to help Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to find legal advice at low prices. At the time of the case in 2018, Lexoo had just started attracting larger companies in need of specialized legal advice as new...Starting at €8.20
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Sybila Börjesson en Catek (A, B, C y D) - Nota del instructor
Stein, GuidoTeaching Note DPOT-25Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementEl objetivo de este caso en su primera parte, subtitulada "Hacia la dirección general", es reflexionar sobre las claves de la exitosa carrera profesional de una mujer directiva y sobre los retos laborales y personales que aborda al ser nombrada directora general de una compañía del sector logístico en fase de expansión. La parte B, subtitulada "La decisión del patrón", permite discutir las razones por las que la relación entre el dueño de la emp...Starting at €0.00
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Sybila Börjesson at Catek (A, B, C and D) - Teaching Note
Stein, GuidoTeaching Note DPOT-25-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementThe objective of the first part of this case, entitled "Towards General Management", is to reflect on the key elements in the successful career of Sybila, a female executive, and also to look at the personal and professional challenges she has to face when appointed Managing Director of a logistics company under expansion. The second part, B, "The Decision Taken by the Boss" is a chance to discuss the reasons why she, as Managing Director, and th...Starting at €0.00
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Eye Care Multifocal Lenses: Information for the Business Manager
Cebrecos, Enrique; Stein, GuidoCase E-128-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementOn Monday January 12, 2009 the medical director of Buenavista, had just made a telephone call to Alejandro asking for a quotation for 4,000 DifraCare multifocal lenses and 8,000 MonoCare monofocals. After months of careful preparation, Alejandro Lanzagorta, a Business Manager at Eye Care, the market leader in the development and marketing of ophthalmic products was at last going to be able to sit down and negotiate with Dr. Rud Mackay, the medica...Starting at €8.20