Ivey Business School (Canada)
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M2 Universal Communications
Srinivas Krishnamoorthy; Peter C. Bell; Ankur Bansal; Peter VazCase IVEY-9B09E013-ECorporate GovernanceTeleco Inc. (Teleco), an established telecom conglomerate with a significant position in the Canadian wireless business, had engaged M2 to plan its digital media spending strategy for the upcoming quarter. The vice-president at M2 would have to help Teleco decide on the ideal investment strategy for its $1.5 million digital media advertising budget and wondered how this would affect M2's strategic recommendations.Starting at €8.20
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Beck Taxi
Srinivas Krishnamoorthy; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B09M058-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, MarketingBeck Taxi is Toronto's leading cab brokerage. In May 2009, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) is wondering whether the company could change the radio fee for the limited duration of summer, usually a lean season for the cab trade. The fee, paid by drivers for the dispatch service connecting them to customers in waiting, has not been increased in over a decade. That is enough reason to go for a straight upward revision on a permanent basi...Starting at €8.20
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Vietnam's Embrace of ICT for Economic Development: Success and Future Challenges
Vu Minh Khuong; Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-9B15E005-EInformation Technologies, StrategyVietnam has made impressive economic gains over a period of three decades, following the Doi Moi reforms of 1986. Before reform, the country’s socialist economy had been unable to displace the poverty that had plagued the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. After reform, Vietnam has experienced many years of sustained growth, as evidenced by its advances on several economic performance rankings. By 2014, Vietnam's rankings compared favou...Starting at €8.20
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Open Banking
Robert D. Austin; Jashan PuniyaCase IVEY-9B21M060-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), one of the world’s largest banks, was confronting the advent of open banking in its retail banking business. In late 2020, policy makers and regulators were advocating movement toward open banking with growing enthusiasm as a way to stimulate competition in the financial services sector and thus, encourage greater value creation for consumers.
JPMC, however, seemed to embrace open banking while also resisting i...Starting at €8.20
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Disruptive Innovation: Developing and Adapting Business Models for an Uncertain Future (Digital Learning Experience)
Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-W35278-EInformation TechnologiesThe aim of this Course DLE is to investigate how innovation influences competition, and why it carries with it great potential for both opportunity and threat. When innovation influences competition, we often use the word disruption to describe what has happened to an established competitive landscape. As we’ll see, though, the word ‘disruption’ has become overused. Thus, a secondary purpose of this DLE is to refine common notions of disruption i...Starting at €8.20
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Arthur Hill & Company Realty Services
Peter C. Bell; Srinivas KrishnamoorthyCase IVEY-9B09E012-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThe chief leasing officer (CLO) of Arthur Hill & Company was preparing Sunrise Atrium (a commercial property currently in the company's portfolio) for sale. Currently, many of the tenants of the building had signed long-term leases that still had time to run but were significantly below market rates. The CLO believed that the majority of potential buyers of Sunrise Atrium would use the cap rate method of valuation, which made the future net opera...Starting at €8.20
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Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship: Business Incubation in the Danish Context
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Demetra DimokopoulosCase IVEY-9B17M116-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2015, the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), the largest business incubator in Denmark, was admitting 100–125 new start-ups each year and attracting external funding of US$33 million from both public and private sources—all with an annual budget of US$435,000, funded exclusively by the Copenhagen Business School. Like most business incubators, CSE worked to provide entrepreneurs with training, mentorship, and investors, and to enhanc...Starting at €8.20
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Knight Capital Americas LLC
Robert D. Austin; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15E008-EInformation TechnologiesIt took 19 years to build Knight Capital Americas LLC into the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, but on August 1, 2012, it took only 45 minutes for the firm to be wiped out by an information technology (IT) problem: a change in the company's software caused it to lose more than $450 million dollars in less than an hour. Although it was ultimately saved from bankruptcy when it was acquired two days later, the terms of acquisitio...Starting at €8.20
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Asian Grill: Finding the Optimal Table Mix
Kyle Maclean; Srinivas KrishnamoorthyCase IVEY-9B17E001-ECorporate GovernanceIn early December 2016, the owner of the Asian Grill restaurant in Henderson, Nevada, noticed that the restaurant had busy nights where customers left due to long wait times, yet there were empty seats due to small groups occupying large tables. She had a proposed new table layout before her and had to evaluate whether this would allow the restaurant to seat more customers on her busiest nights (Thursday to Saturday), or whether a different table...Starting at €8.20
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Pinpoint Consulting — Credit Card Portfolio Valuation
Srinivas Krishnamoorthy; Devin ChetanCase IVEY-9B11E032-ECorporate Governance, Finance, StrategyPinpoint Consulting, a multi-billion dollar strategy consulting firm, has been hired by Dart Financial Corporation to provide advice on the potential acquisition of a credit card portfolio. An analyst has the task of building a model and making recommendations. The price is set at $60 million and the analyst must assess whether the portfolio is an attractive opportunity and a suitable fit for Dart Financial.Starting at €8.20