Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Karatu Coffee Company in Tanzania: What Strategy Next? (Spanish version)
Manuel Siegrist; Gary Bowman; Colette Southam; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-W29919Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2018, the founder and owner of the Karatu Coffee Company needed to decide what to do next with his company. He was considering several options: increasing the tourism part of the business, growing the original farm, pursuing a property development project in the capital city, or simply selling out and walking away. The company, located in Tanzania, began as a coffee farm, expanded into tourism with a remote, idyllic coffee lodge, and then brou...Starting at €8.20
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Toyota Tsusho in the South Pacific (Spanish version)
Paul W. Beamish; Gary Bowman; Daniel Abrahams; Alex BeamishCase IVEY-W29924StrategyIn 2018, Toyota Tsusho South Pacific Holdings, the leading automotive company in the South Pacific, was celebrating its 20th anniversary. The company, which operated a network of 27 dealerships through subsidiary companies in seven island nations, had been through a number of dramatic changes since its origins in the 19th century, and its Brisbane, Australia, office had transitioned from its early role as a corporate head office with 15 employees...Starting at €8.20
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Apollo Tyres: Investment Decision Dilemma
Varun Dawar; Rakesh ArrawatiaCase IVEY-9B14N032-EFinance, StrategyIn early March 2012, an investor sat at home in Gurgaon, India examining the latest financial information about Apollo Tyres Limited, India’s leading tire manufacturer. Over the past decade, the company had significantly diversified its product and geographic mix through organic investment and strategic acquisitions and had experienced superior growth opportunities. Yet, after almost doubling between 2007 and 2010, its share price had not seen an...Starting at €8.20
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IndusInd Bank: Residual Income Valuation
Varun Dawar; Rakesh Arrawatia; Saumya Ranjan Dash; Arit ChaudhuryCase IVEY-9B16N015-EFinance, StrategyIn early 2013, an analyst at an insurance company was examining whether IndusInd Bank, a mid-size bank in India, would be a good investment for the insurance fund’s equity portfolio. From January 2008 until March 30, 2013, the bank’s stock had tripled under its new management. The analyst wondered whether deploying funds in the bank would yield any significant returns. He decided to use the available financial information and the residual income ...Starting at €8.20
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Time Value of Money: A Home Investment Decision Dilemma
Arit Chaudhury; Varun Dawar; Rakesh ArrawatiaCase IVEY-9B17N016-EFinance, StrategyIn early 2016, Naresh Jain was busy looking at various rental properties on popular real estate listing websites. Because of a sudden downturn in business conditions and an immediate need for money, Jain’s landlord wanted to sell the property and therefore had asked Jain to vacate the premises within 30 days. Jain had been living in the spacious, two-bedroom apartment in North West Delhi for the past five years as it was within a reasonable commu...Starting at €8.20
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Karatu Coffee Company in Tanzania: What Strategy Next
Manuel Siegrist; Gary Bowman; Colette Southam; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B20M039-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2018, the founder and owner of the Karatu Coffee Company needed to decide what to do next with his company. He was considering several options: increasing the tourism part of the business, growing the original farm, pursuing a property development project in the capital city, or simply selling out and walking away. The company, located in Tanzania, began as a coffee farm, expanded into tourism with a remote, idyllic coffee lodge, and then brou...Starting at €8.20
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Toyota Tsusho in the South Pacific
Paul W. Beamish; Gary Bowman; Daniel Abrahams; Alex BeamishCase IVEY-9B20M134-EStrategyIn 2018, Toyota Tsusho South Pacific Holdings, the leading automotive company in the South Pacific, was celebrating its 20th anniversary. The company, which operated a network of 27 dealerships through subsidiary companies in seven island nations, had been through a number of dramatic changes since its origins in the 19th century, and its Brisbane, Australia, office had transitioned from its early role as a corporate head office with 15 employees...Starting at €8.20
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Pidilite Industries: Assessing Credit Quality
Varun Dawar; Debasish Maitra; Arit ChaudhuryCase IVEY-9B16B019-EAccounting and Control, StrategyIn mid-2015, a credit analyst with a leading investment company was tasked with assessing the overall credit quality of a chemical company that equity analysts had recommended as a long-term investment for his firm’s insurance equity fund. The analyst set out to use various financial parameters—liquidity, working capital, profitability, efficiency, capital structure, and debt servicing. He believed that a fair assessment of credit quality could h...Starting at €8.20
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Portfolio Diversification Enigma
Varun DawarCase IVEY-9B14N031-EFinance, StrategyIn early January 2013, a product manager with one of the leading insurance companies in Delhi, India, sat in his home office and pondered the strategy he had followed for his personal investment portfolio over the last three years. He was worried that talk of tapering off the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing Program, undertaken in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, and the Indian general elections in May 2014 might affec...Starting at €8.20
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TTK Prestige: Economic Value Added Analysis
Varun Dawar; Rakesh Arrawatia; Arit ChaudhuryCase IVEY-9B16N062-EFinance, StrategyIn 2014, an analyst with a leading investment company wanted to evaluate the financial performance of a kitchen appliances company, TTK Prestige Ltd., headquartered in Bangalore, India. To accomplish this task, the analyst decided to use the economic value added (EVA)-based performance measure, which accorded importance to value creation by management for its shareholders. Recently, there had been a shift away from traditional approaches of measu...Starting at €8.20