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Universal Print Systems Limited: Exploring Operations Strategy Options
Sivakumar AlurCase IVEY-9B15D016-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyUniversal Print Systems Limited, located in Southern India, provides self-adhesive label printing for such end-user businesses as the passenger car and alcoholic beverages industries. Although larger markets exist in Western and Northern India, 80 per cent of its customers are located in Southern India. Because of the company’s low capacity utilization, management is contemplating its operations strategy options, including aggressively pursuing b...Starting at €8.20
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Olympus and the Whistleblower President
Seijiro Takeshita; Christopher WilliamsCase IVEY-9B12M012-EStrategyThe newly appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus Corporation of Japan was called to an emergency board meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss governance issues regarding corporate mergers and acquisitions. However, it would be no ordinary meeting. Since assuming the role of president in April 2011, the president had discovered evidence of corporate fraud on a large scale. He had commissioned an external auditor rep...Starting at €8.20
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Tesco PLC: Strategy for India
Christopher Williams; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B14M096-EStrategyAs multinational enterprises expand operations in emerging economies, identifying and responding to unique marketing challenges may require strategy that focuses on local adaptation and global integration on a country by country basis. In March 2014, Tesco PLC (Tesco), the largest retailer in the United Kingdom and the third largest supermarket group in the world, has signed an agreement with Trent Hypermarkets, the retail division of the Tata Gr...Starting at €8.20
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Primacy: Global Design from India
Ajith J. Kumar; Sivakumar AlurCase IVEY-9B13M027-EStrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Best case in the Innovation Management category, 2012 ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition. An Indian company was planning to set up a Global Design Competence Centre (GDCC) in India. The company offered scented candles and holiday and gift products primarily for the U.S. market. Through its two American subsidiaries, it made and sold its products to large American mass-merchandisers and independent retailers. In-house design cap...Starting at €8.20
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UltraRichMatch.com: Online Matrimony in India
Sivakumar Alur; Sulagna MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B14A041-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn November 2011, UltraRichMatch.com (URM) was founded as an online matrimonial portal targeted at Indian millionaires. URM was unique as it provided both wedding planning and matchmaking services. URM depended on building affiliations with providers of wedding products and services. These affiliations had not grown according to expectations. By early 2013, the founder believed that expansion was necessary for URM. He had arrived at three options...Starting at €8.20
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Fishbay.in - Fishing on the Net
Sivakumar Alur; Sulagna Mukherjee; Dina RibbinkCase IVEY-9B15A020-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyFishbay.in is an online store where Indian consumers can buy fish that is delivered to their home. Although the founder originally targeted individual consumers and households, he soon found that restaurants were also interested in buying fish online. Unlike individuals, restaurants were more concerned with quality than price and typically ordered larger quantities. The founder wonders whether he should stick to his original plan of targeting ind...Starting at €8.20
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Business Process Outsourcing at Apollo Health Street
Christopher Williams; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11M041-EStrategyThe managing director of Apollo Health Street (AHS), a health care business process outsourcing (BPO) company headquartered in Pennsylvania, United States, was pondering two dilemmas: achieving short-term growth for his company, and finding new ways to compete in a changing industry. AHS was itself a subsidiary of Apollo Health Enterprises Ltd., an integrated health care company located in Hyderabad, India. AHS had been growing at an 80 per cent ...Starting at €8.20
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Hongxin Entrepreneur Incubator: Expanding the Cloud
Xiaosong Lin; Christopher Williams; Zhirong MuCase IVEY-9B14M113-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Hongxin Entrepreneur Incubator, located in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, has experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2013. Its founder and president has received widespread acclaim as he has helped to launch and turn around more than 100 local companies, both start-ups and more developed enterprises. He now plans to develop and grow the incubator by setting it up as an online platform that would connect and support an alliance of ent...Starting at €8.20
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Tesla: Internationalization from Singapore to China
Christopher Williams; Umair Shafique; Adnan Kayssi; Wanyi Zhao; Agata Barczyk; Lukasz GluszynskiCase IVEY-9B15M074-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyElon Musk, the CEO of the U.S.-headquartered Tesla Motors (Tesla), was considering how the company should enter the Chinese market. Less than a year earlier, Tesla had exited Singapore after disappointing results only six months after entering that promising market. There were several questions that the company would have to answer in order to formulate an appropriate entry strategy for China. First, could the company learn from its experiences i...Starting at €8.20
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Morita's Legacy and International Strategy at Sony
Christopher Williams; Nicole Duncan; Gregoire Thomas; Christopher Held; Ami LebendikerCase IVEY-9B12M082-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTwo years after the death of Sony’s visionary founder, Akio Morita, chief executive officer Noboyuki Idei faced a major crisis. Sony had just posted its worst performance in years and had to figure out if its current strategy needed to change. In pursuit of Morita’s vision to bring entertainment to the masses through innovation and applied technology, Sony had grown from a small Japanese company to a US$50-billion-per-year global corporation. As ...Starting at €8.20