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Integrated Reporting in the Cloud
Armbrester, Kyle; Eccles, Robert G.Article ART-1890-EAccounting and ControlFinancial reporting for all listed companies is a long established practice, which more recently has been complemented by corporate social responsibility or sustainability reporting. However, the reporting of nonfinancial information related to environmental, social and governance performance remains largely voluntary. Although still an embryonic management practice, the authors believe that ¿integrated reporting¿ of a company¿s financial and non...Starting at €8.20
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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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Empoderados
Bernoff, Josh; Schadler, TedArticle HBS-R1007HLeadership and People ManagementDespués de su guitarra se rompió en un vuelo de United Air Lines y la aerolínea rechazó su reclamación por daños, músico Dave Carroll hizo el vídeo de YouTube "United Breaks Guitars", que más de 8 millones de personas han visto. Carroll está lejos de ser el único que tiene los medios de comunicación social empleado para fustigar una empresa de mal servicio al cliente. Por ejemplo, un popular blogger le aconsejó millones o más seguidores en Twitte...Starting at €8.20
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Helping HEROes Innovate: How Your Company Can Surface Ideas and Encourage Employee-Driven Innovation
Bernoff, Josh; Schadler, TedBook Chapter HBS-7037BC-EInnovation in a business powered by employee HEROes-Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives-is about speed, collaboration, and systems for capturing the best ideas. In this chapter, authors Josh Bernoff-coauthor of "Groundswell"-and Ted Schadler explain how these three elements enable employee HEROes to find the others who can help them get things started quickly. Speed, collaboration, and idea-capturing systems contribute to both minor, "sus...Starting at €8.20
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Becoming HERO-Powered: Are You Ready to Allow Your Employees to Turn Social Technologies into Customer-Focused Innovation Machines
Bernoff, Josh; Schadler, TedBook Chapter HBS-7050BC-EThe concept of employee-driven innovation doesn't come up every day, and it doesn't affect every employee. But when it does come up, it can make a dramatic difference in how it feels to work at your company, because innovation-and the excitement that surrounds it-is in the air. So how can you tell if your company is on its way from being ordinary to becoming HERO-powered? In this chapter, authors Josh Bernoff-coauthor of "Groundswell"-and Ted Sch...Starting at €8.20
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Why the Groundswell-and Why Now: Social Technologies-A Call to Action for Your Business
Li, Charlene; Bernoff, JoshBook Chapter HBS-8338BC-EYour company's customers are talking about your brand right now, on Facebook and Twitter, probably in ways you haven't approved and wouldn't like. Your support representatives' conversations with customers will show up on YouTube, and so will your TV commercials, intercut with sarcastic commentary. This movement-the "groundswell"-comes from a thousand different sources and washes over traditional businesses like a flood. And while you can't stop ...Starting at €8.20