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Barilla SpA (A) (Spanish version)
Hammond, Janice H.Case HBS-603S20Service and Operations ManagementBarilla SpA, an Italian manufacturer that sells to its retailers largely through third-party distributors, experienced widely fluctuating demand patterns from its distributors during the late 1980s. This case describes a proposal to address the problem by implementing a continuous replenishment program, under which the responsibility for determining shipment quantities to the distributors would shift from the distributors to Barilla. Describes su...Starting at €8.20
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Both/And Leadership (Spanish version)
Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-R1605DStrategyManagers must pull apart the organization's goals and value each of them individually, while also finding linkages and synergies across goals.Starting at €8.20
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The Transit Point Experiment (Spanish version)
Hammond, Janice H.; Kelly, MauraCase HBS-615S09Service and Operations ManagementMerloni Elettrodomestici is a leading Italian manufacturer of domestic appliances. In 1986, an exposition for Merloni customers is scheduled at its Milano regional warehouse. During the two-month period preceding the event, when the warehouse must be free of inventory, the company conducts a "transit point" experiment. Each day, a truckload of products from the company's central warehouse is sent to Milano, where it is immediately transferred to ...Starting at €8.20
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ChemBright, Inc. (Spanish Version)
Hammond, Janice H.Case HBS-604S11Service and Operations ManagementChemBright es una pequeña empresa de nueva creación dedicada a la fabricación de productos químicos de uso doméstico de marca privada. La compañía vende sus productos a cadenas de supermercados en el área de Nueva Inglaterra. Su estrategia se basa en una ventaja de costos basado en la logística significativos. Las decisiones de los casos primarios son: 1) cómo la empresa debe responder a una guerra de precios iniciada por un fuerte competidor, y ...Starting at €8.20
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SMA: División de productos microelectrónicos (C)
Beer, Michael; Tushman, Michael L.Case HBS-407S08Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (B). Una versión reescrita de un suplemento antes.Starting at €5.74
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Managing Corporate Social Networks (Spanish version)
Kleinbaum, Adam M.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-F0807JLeadership and People ManagementIdea brokers are good at sparking cross-divisional innovation through their broad social networks. But implementation-marshaling resources and getting various stakeholders on board-requires dense webs of strong interpersonal relationships.Starting at €8.20
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Both/And Leadership
Smith, Wendy K.; Lewis, Marianne W.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-R1605D-EKnowledge and CommunicationLeaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes--contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are "innovation paradoxes," in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and true. There are "globalization paradoxes," which involve tensions between local imperatives and boundary-crossing integration. And there are "obligation paradoxes," when the goal of maximiz...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Corporate Social Networks
Kleinbaum, Adam M.; Tushman, Michael L.Article HBS-F0807J-ELeadership and People ManagementIdea brokers are good at sparking cross-divisional innovation through their broad social networks. But implementation-marshaling resources and getting various stakeholders on board-requires dense webs of strong interpersonal relationships.Starting at €8.20
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Caesars Entertainment
Hammond, Janice H.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-615031-EFinanceThis case describes the introduction of a regression analysis model for forecasting guest arrivals to Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company will use the forecast to staff the front desk in the hotel. The staff is unionized and the company has little flexibility to change staffing levels on a short-term basis. The case is set in the context of industry overcapacity and lower customer demand. The case describes several models that ...Starting at €8.20
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Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste
Drake, David; Hammond, Janice H.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-615040-EService and Operations ManagementThe global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's Chief Supply Chain Officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen to first focus on three key areas-sugar, tomatoes, and tea-and had analyzed where in the 'farm t...Starting at €8.20