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Recupera, S.A.
Pancorvo, JorgeCase PAD-P-C-343Service and Operations ManagementDardo López-Dolz, propietario del negocio y persona emprendedora, afronta varias decisiones para conseguir que su empresa siga creciendo. Sin embargo, la naturaleza del servicio parte de una anomalía de las transacciones de compraventa: un deudor que no cumple sus obligaciones según lo convenido. La demanda tiene un comportamiento irregular, con expedientes de cobranza que varían según cada caso, y con exigencias operativas distintas por cad...Starting at €8.20
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Fernández-Vega Eye Institute
Serrano, Alejandro; Moscoso, PhilipCase P-1137-EInnovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementThe Fernández-Vega Eye Institute in Oviedo, Asturias, is possibly the most famous clinic in Spain in its specialty. It is not only notable for its high medical quality; the clinic has also optimized its provision of services using business criteria with the aim of improving the customer experience. Faced with a growing demand for its medical services, the institute's management has to decide between a series of specific options for increasing the...Starting at €8.20
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Roche: The Investment Decision Dilemma
Serrano, Alejandro; Kraiselburd, SantiagoCase P-1171-EFinance, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2015, Roche launched an internal improvement program aimed at reducing the cost of its products, with an emphasis on manufacturing costs. Paul de Wit, the group head in charge of product supply-chain management, was assigned the task of figuring out the appropriate production batch size for each product, with the help of two representatives from the financial and supply-chain management departments. They tested three different approaches on a ...Starting at €8.20
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Mercadona and the Challenge of 2020
Serrano, Alejandro; Girbal, AlbertCase P-1176-EService and Operations ManagementAfter various decades of uninterrupted growth, Mercadona was completing its expansion in Spain and Portugal. Faced with this situation, it was natural in which direction the company strategy should head. Should it continue its expansion process into other countries, such as Italy? If so, what impact would the recent change of model from "integrated suppliers" to "totalers" have on the process?Starting at €8.20
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Fiore di Zucca
Serrano, Alejandro; Calvo, EduardCase P-1183-EService and Operations ManagementFiore di Zucca was one of Italy's leading producers of bags of ready-to-eat precooked vegetables. Francesco Ferrati, the chief operating officer, reviewed the results of a new policy of producing goods without waiting to receive orders from customers. He was satisfied with the improvement in customer response time. However, the inventory had expanded so much that one of the warehouses of finished products had almost come to a standstill twice due...Starting at €8.20
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Selección de proveedores en PepsiCo Europa
Serrano, Alejandro; Nadjia Gassner; Humberto Pardi; Girbal, AlbertCase P-1190Service and Operations ManagementEn 2018, PepsiCo se plantea incorporar a un nuevo proveedor de CO2 a su proceso de fabricación, en las plantas de Europa del Este. Dicho proveedor ofrece un precio muy competitivo. Sin embargo, los otros aspectos clave, como la fiabilidad, el nivel del servicio, etc., deberán estudiarse a fondo antes de tomar una decisión. Además, contar con un proveedor nuevo implicaría eliminar a uno de los ya existentes. ¿Cuál debería irse? La propuesta de Mig...Starting at €8.20
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A Powerful New Model (Spanish version)
Nohria, Nitin; Groysberg, Boris; Lee, Linda-ElingArticle HBS-R0807GLeadership and People ManagementMotivating employees begins with recognizing that to do their best work, people must be in an environment that meets their basic emotional drives to acquire, bond, comprehend, and defend. So say Nohria and Groysberg, of Harvard Business School, and Lee, of the Center for Research on Corporate Performance. Using the results of surveys they conducted with employees at a wide range of Fortune 500 and other companies, they developed a model for how t...Starting at €8.20
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The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad (Spanish version)
Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio; Groysberg, Boris; Nohria, NitinArticle HBS-R0905FLeadership and People Managementanticipating the need for new hires, specifying the job, developing a pool of candidates, assessing the candidates, closing the deal, integrating the newcomer, and reviewing hire-process effectiveness. Whatever the future brings, firms that follow these practices successfully will have a distinct advantage over their shortsighted competitors.Starting at €8.20
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Roaring Out of Recession (Spanish version)
Gulati, Ranjay; Nohria, Nitin; Wohlgezogen, FranzArticle HBS-R1003CStrategya combination of cutting costs, mainly by improving operational efficiency (rather than by slashing the number of employees relative to peers), and developing new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than rivals do in R&D and marketing while also investing in plants and machinery.Starting at €8.20
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Caso HBR: El "tres" de caballeros
Hall, Brian J.; Wasynczuk, AndrewArticle HBS-R1107RLeadership and People Management¿Cómo se puede reducir la plantilla, cuando casi todo el mundo tiene las mismas puntuaciones en evaluaciones de desempeño? vicepresidente de recursos humanos Nils Ekdahl se enfrenta a esa pregunta en Circale Corporation, una de ficción-componentes electrónicos distribuidor que acaba de completar una serie de adquisiciones. Ekdahl quiere hacer los recortes de personal objetivamente, pero los nuevos rendimientos del sistema de evaluar el desempeño ...Starting at €8.20