Ivey Business School (Canada)
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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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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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Pagani Automobili S.p.A: Motoring Becomes Electric
Robert D. Austin; Adrian PierceCase IVEY-9B19M066-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2018, Modena, Italy’s Pagani Automobili S.p.A (Pagani Automobili), a boutique designer and manufacturer of high-performance internal combustion engine powered supercars, was struggling to develop a response to the emergence of electric vehicle teStarting at €8.20
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Big Hit Entertainment and BTS: K-Pop Reaches for a Global Breakthrough
Robert D. Austin; Morgan ZhuoCase IVEY-9B18M190-EStrategyBig Hit Entertainment, a Korean-based producer of popular music content, was promoting its hit "idol group," BTS, as a serious entry in the world’s mainstream musical entertainment business, alongside global performers such as Justin Bieber. The "K-pop maStarting at €8.20
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Hart Schaffner Marx: Neurodiversity at a Classic American Suit Maker
Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-9B18C048-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2015, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Hart Schaffner Marx, a 130-year-old U.S. maker of men’s suits and sport coats in Des Plaines, Illinois, set out to create an employment program for people with autism with the help of the company's partner, AuStarting at €8.20
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Digital Transformation at GE: What Went Wrong
Robert D. Austin; Genevieve PelowCase IVEY-9B19M110-EStrategyAs recently as 2017, General Electric (GE) had been touted as an example of how established companies could pre-emptively transform their businesses digitally, without waiting to be forced to do so by their competition. But in 2018, the wheels appeared to fall off GE's transformation, amid a crisis that included leadership changes, dividend cuts, credit downgrades, and a stock price crash. The company announced that it would sell GE Digital, the ...Starting at €8.20
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Mircom Technologies Ltd. (B): Reflections of the CEO
Robert D. Austin; Laurel C. Austin; R. ChandrasekharCase IVEY-W28581-EInformation TechnologiesSupplemental product to W28457.Starting at €5.74