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Long Wang Sha Tan Ku Company
Peter C. Bell; Anna Galica; Vincent Fung; Lothair Ling; Pik-Kei Osburga ChanCase IVEY-9B09E008-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThe chief operation officer (COO) of Long Wang Sha Tan Ku Company, a boardshorts manufacturer based in Shanghai, China, was expected to present a plan to improve the company's profitability through adjustments to the company's operations. There were at least three possible paths to increase profitability. First, reviewing how production was scheduled between the company's two manufacturing facilities. Second, since the company operated at capacit...Starting at €8.20
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Location Planning at A.B. Corp.
Jitendra R. SharmaCase IVEY-9B12D008-ECorporate Governance, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn March 2010, the management of A.B. Corp. announced its plan to select a definite location for its central warehouse. The company, a major producer of agriculture and farm equipment, had gone through three consecutive years of financial loss as a result of increasing production costs. Management had to select a central warehouse between four candidates, based on the location of five distribution centres, the loads to be transferred, and other f...Starting at €8.20
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JSW Steel Ltd.: A Logistics Dilemma
Amol Dhaigude; Debmallya Chatterjee; Vishnu KumarCase IVEY-9B17E008-ECorporate GovernanceThe customer relationship manager at JSW Steel Ltd., a large steel manufacturer in India, needed to analyze his available transportation and logistics options to meet an urgent order for a long-time and valued client. The manager needed to decide whether to send the shipment through the customary rail route or, instead, to use the new sea route that his company had recently developed. His dual objective was to meet the customer's requirements in ...Starting at €8.20
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TRIAS: Decision on Cable Ladder Production
Singfat Chu; Leo HermantoCase IVEY-9B16E002-ECorporate Governance, StrategyIn July 2015, PT Trias Indra Saputra (TRIAS), Indonesia’s leading welded cable ladder producer, had just won its largest-ever tender bid. The news could get even better if it adopted alternative materials that were potentially more profitable. The production director was tasked with weighing whether TRIAS should fulfill the tender using its traditional supplier or the new materials. While more expensive, the new materials would cut out several pr...Starting at €8.20
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EU Holidays
Yew Hoong Wong; Singfat ChuCase IVEY-9B13E003-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThe profit margin for the travel agency industry in Singapore, which mostly offered travel packages to Asia and Europe, was very thin. An up-and-coming travel agency faced the dilemma of offering maximum customer satisfaction while keeping its operating cost (e.g., fees for its tour guides) low. Rather than simply assigning travel guides to tours by trial and error, a director of the travel agency decided to use an optimization template. This cas...Starting at €8.20
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National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA): Influencing Customer Behaviour
K.R. Jayasimha; Srabanti MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B12A016-ECorporate Governance, Marketing, StrategySince its inception in 1997, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) had been trying to control drug prices through various supply-side initiatives, which had yielded limited success. This time around, NPPA had announced a new initiative, which was aimed at educating consumers about the inexpensive alternatives for medicines prescribed by doctors. By giving consumers information about various brands and their prices, NPPA hoped to of...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo Siro 2014
Bernal Glez-Villegas, Jorge; Garcia de Castro, Antonio; Reina Paniagua, RocioCase IIST-DGI-243Corporate GovernanceGrupo Siro, uno de los mayores grupos industriales de alimentación en España en la categoría de galletas, bollería, cereales, pan de molde, pasta y pastelería, y segundo interproveedor de Mercado por facturación desde hacía más de 10 años, había crecido todos estos últimos años en España. Mercadona había descartado la internacionalización pero Grupo Siro había decidido crear una empresa dentro del Grupo para desarrollar el negocio fuera de España...Starting at €8.20
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Fútbol Club Barcelona: El tiki-taka en quiebra
Duro, Miguel; Soler, Edi; Rivera de Asis, JavierCase C-796Accounting and Control, Corporate Governance, FinanceSandro Rosell, el nuevo presidente del Fútbol Club Barcelona (FCB), había tomado posesión del cargo el 1 de julio de 2010, un día después de que la anterior Junta y su presidente, Joan Laporta, formulasen las cuentas de la temporada 2009/2010, que abarcaba del 1 de julio de 2009 al 30 de junio de 2010. Pocas semanas después de la formulación de las cuentas por parte de la Junta de Laporta, Rosell y su Junta habían realizado una reformulación de d...Starting at €8.20
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Huawei: A Silent Chinese Telecom Multinational
Zhang, Yingying; Kase, KimioCase SM-1560-ECorporate Governance, Knowledge and CommunicationIn terms of sales, Huawei is the world's fourth-largest maker of network equipment, after Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Alcatel-Lucent. It also ranked second in optical networking and third in mobile-network gear in 2008. It is one of the leading global telecommunications solution providers with a revenue of 18.33 billion USD in 2008 and a net income of 1.15 billion USD. Contrary to the typical image of Chinese companies that depicts them...Starting at €8.20
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La Fageda: A Crazy Initiative (B): Challenges of Growth and Governance in 2014
Segarra, José AntonioCase M-1325-ECorporate Governance, StrategyCase (B) details the important legal changes made to the initiative. Cristóbal Colón, chairman of La Fageda, reflects on the reinforcement of the organization and the corporate governance to ensure the continuity of the project and its depersonalization.Starting at €5.74