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WWF-Singapore: Promoting Sustainable Seafood
Doreen KumCase IVEY-W28199-EMarketing, StrategyIn February 2021, the responsible seafood program officer for World Wide Fund for Nature Singapore (WWF-Singapore) was looking to encourage a collective change in the consumption of sustainable seafood. Promoting sustainable seafood in Singapore, however, had not been easy. Due to cultural influences and the nature of seafood trading, driving a change in the sourcing and consumption of seafood among stakeholders required significant effort and cr...Starting at €8.20
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Singapore Airlines: Raising Capital During COVID-19
Allaudeen Hameed, Ruth S.K. Tan, Weina ZhangCase IVEY-W25408-EFinanceOn March 26, 2020, Singapore Airlines was reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. To raise badly needed capital, it announced that its shareholders would be offered S$5.3 billion worth of rights shares and S$3.5 billion of rights mandatory convertible bonds, both of which would be reflected as equity on its balance sheet. Should shareholders take advantage of this offer or not? To make this decision, investors had to analyze the airline...Starting at €8.20
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Singapore Airlines: A Rights Issue during the COVID-19 Crisis
Emir HrnjićCase IVEY-W24460-EFinanceIn early 2020, Singapore Airlines Limited (Singapore Airlines) faced severe liquidity issues as the global pandemic halted its flights and uncertainty loomed. Erstwhile massive cash reserves were quickly running out, and the airline’s executives pondered how to save the company from insolvency. Singapore Airlines’ majority shareholder, Temasek Holdings Limited, agreed to subscribe to a massive capital-raising exercise of up to S$15 billion via a ...Starting at €8.20
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DBS Bank Ltd.: How to Accelerate Digitalization
Ning Su; R. ChandrasekharCase IVEY-W25312-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn June 2020, the head of Customer Centre at DBS Bank Ltd. (DBS), the largest commercial bank in Singapore, was wondering how to leverage the bank’s current success in digitalization to create a competitive advantage. As a business leader, she was facing major decision points. How could she increase awareness of the bank’s digital assets among existing customers? How could she further digitalize the customer centre? In addition, the COVID-19 glob...Starting at €8.20
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L'Oréal USA: Digitally Optimizing Consumer Insights
Dennis Paris; Sheri Lambert; Amy LavinCase IVEY-9B21A012-EMarketingNima Gohil, head of the new digital and creative consumer research department at L’Oréal USA (L’Oréal), was preparing for the upcoming January 2016 board meeting at L’Oréal’s research and innovation headquarters in Clark, New Jersey. L’Oréal’s competitors were using new digital media to highlight beauty products to current and new users, and L’Oréal was under pressure to develop a better way to connect with consumers to maintain—if not grow—marke...Starting at €8.20
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Project Sparrow: Applying Costing Methods
Ian Dunn; Kaitlyn OhCase IVEY-9B21B003-EAccounting and ControlIn 2019, the pricing manager at the US manufacturing facility for Sparrow GmbH (Sparrow), a chemical manufacturer based in Germany, asked the project manager at Roland Berger, a global management consulting firm, to provide her opinion on the pricing for Sparrow’s bid on a basic chemicals contract with Impendium Chemicals. The basic chemicals industry was a highly competitive and commoditized environment; as a result, pricing decisions with respe...Starting at €8.20
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The PikoGym Entrepreneurs: Muscling Up through Intellectual Property
Florian Fuchs; Peter M. Bican; Alexander BremCase IVEY-9B20M093-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFrustrated with the available means of working out while travelling, the three founders of PikoGym, a start-up out of Erlangen, Germany, had the idea to build a workout device that allowed users to train anywhere and everywhere. The lightweight and compacStarting at €8.20
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Super Group: Acquisition and Delisting from the Singapore Exchange
Ruth S.K. Tan; Allaudeen Hameed; Weina Zhang; Zsuzsa R. HuszarCase IVEY-9B20N033-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyOn November 3, 2016, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) launched a bid for Singapore-based food and beverage company Super Group Ltd. (Super). JDE had already acquired 60 per cent of the shares but needed another 30 per cent in order to delist the company and takStarting at €8.20
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Beau's All Natural Brewing Company: Crafting International Opportunities
Neil Maltby; Travis Radtke; Alexander Weaver; Dwayne Mortimer; Duncan PernalCase IVEY-9B20M109-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFollowing the successful launch of Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company (Beau’s) in all 10 Canadian provinces, the craft brewer had its sights set on the next step forward: international markets. The brewery wanted to distribute Beau’s internationally, andStarting at €8.20
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Bumbox: Choosing a Business Model for a Start-Up
Doreen KumCase IVEY-9B20A053-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn early 2015, the chief executive officer of Bumbox Logistics Private Limited (Bumbox) faced a challenge. The company, launched in Singapore, provided smart lockers for use by delivery companies and consumers to ensure the safe and timely receipt of onliStarting at €8.20