Making Dreams Come True…With Operations Management
How Disney’s innovative operations management translates into magical experiences for customers, and large profits for the company
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TransferWise: Quicker and cheaper foreign exchange
By creating a market for people with opposite currency requirements and leveraging an ‘all-digital’ approach, TransferWise is seeking to displace banks and create considerable savings for retail consumers in the foreign exchange market
Why Better Place is in a better place…
The billion-dollar bet on batteries that ended in bankruptcy
Amtrak: Losing Money for the Long Haul
Why can’t Amtrak make any money? America’s national passenger rail service is a for-profit corporation, yet since its trains started rolling in 1971, Amtrak has yet to come out in the black.
Minerva: Reinventing Higher Education in the 21st Century
Minerva has invented a new higher education model from the ground up to deliver a unique high-quality and low-cost undergraduate student experience.
Chipotle and the Fast Casual Revolution
How a Mexican restaurant chain is taking on the entire fast food industry…
Walmex: Adaptability of the Walmart business model
Have you ever been to a “high-end Walmart” that is known for luxury and quality products? Can Walmart compete on something other than price? More so, can the Walmart business and operating model be adapted for different types of stores? The answer to all this questions is yes; in Mexico Walmex (Walmart Mexico and Central America) has been really successful in adapting its business model to serve different type of customers through several store formats.
How Kenya created the world’s most successful mobile-payments service
M-PESA has transformed the everyday lives of most Kenyans, disrupting the traditional banking system and capturing the previously unbanked market. Allowing whole businesses to be run from a mobile phone, the secret to M-PESA’s impressive performance can be found backstage.
KIPP: Changing Lives One Student at a Time
Roland Fryer showed that educational achievement is correlated with higher incomes, lower rates of unemployment, lower rates of incarceration, and better physical health.1 If you believe a causal relationship exists between educational achievement and life outcomes, then efforts to improve […]
Inditex, king of fast fashion
Over the past 20 years, one word disrupted the fashion industry and changed it more than any other single trend: fast. At the helm of this movement has been Inditex, a Spanish firm that originally started as a dress maker Galicia during the 60’s and has now become a collection of more than 100 companies worldwide.