... waste, the new machine offers strategic advantages to the firm in its chosen market niche. Issues related to operations are central to appreciating the importance and implications of this capital investment: Operating excellence is a key competitive advantage for this firm. A teaching note and student...

.... operations decision analysis Monte Carlo simulation Pharmaceuticals/Biotechnology/Health Care …our success or failure in R&D won’t result from the quality of our scientists alone; it will also come from the quality of our thinking about where to invest. ¹ —Judy Lewent...

...Gal Raz; Tim Kraft; Allison Elias This case is used in Darden's Supply-Chain Operations elective. The field-based case gives supply-chain educators the ability to teach the newsvendor model with pricing under a capacity constraint using real-life decisions. By 2005, Eastman Chemical Company, based...

... be used for a course in service operations or strategy. This case was prepared by Marlene Friesen, under the supervision of Professor Elliott N. Weiss. Portions of it were taken from the Darden case “Southwest Airlines” (UVA-OM-0743), prepared by Charlotte Thompson, under the supervision...