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Amazon+Whole Foods: un nuevo actor en el sector
Audicana Arcas, J.; Arribas Hervás, L.; Andrade Nuñez, J.Case IIST-PI-189Service and Operations ManagementEn 16 de junio Amazon, con más de 300 millones de clientes activos y 380.000 empleados y ventas que superan los 135 billones de dólares norteamericanos (año 2016), anuncia su intención de adquirir Whole Foods por 13.7 billones de dólares. Whole Foods es un retailer con sede en Austín (Texas), ventas que exceden los $16 billones al año y más de 477 tiendas en EE.UU., Canadá y Reino Unid, y que ostenta el liderazgo en alimentos orgánicos y comida s...Starting at €8.20
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Unes Supermarkets e il Viaggiator Goloso: Building a Brand (Italian Version)
Audicana Arcas, J.; Loring Olmedo, S.; Andrade Nuñez, J.Case IIST-PI-190-I-ITService and Operations ManagementUNES is a young company of medium size supermarkets that has starred in a turnaround, evolving from losing money, to achieving it, listening to the market and making brave bets to respond to it ("Every day low prices, private brand, fresh, private brand Premium, pop-up shops, single brand supermarkets, alliance with Amazon, etc.), creating its own business model, "the supermarket against the tide". After several years of launching and managing pr...Starting at €8.20
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Estimating Cisco's Future Cash Flows (Spanish Version)
Hubert Pun; Salar GhamatCase IVEY-9B16ES022Decision AnalysisIn March 2016, an investor wanted to evaluate the strategy and stability of Cisco Systems, Inc. by using historical income statements to predict future cash flows. He knew that he might be able to use time series analysis to evaluate the company’s performance in the near future, but he was unsure how to proceed if the historical data would not be predictive of the future performance. In particular, the investor wondered, how would he determine th...Starting at €8.20
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Iloof: Expanding from Online to Offline Channels
Yi Liao; Jing Chen; Hubert Pun; Jun LiCase IVEY-9B20D014-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIloof Technology Co. Ltd. was a Chinese start-up high-technology company at the forefront of the smart water bottle market, one of the newest sectors in the reusable water bottle industry. Smart bottles or cups, also known as interactive water bottles, were technologically advanced devices that had wireless communication capabilities to connect with electronic devices, such as smart phones. They also helped record and optimize the user’s water in...Starting at €8.20
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JD: E-invoice with Blockchain
Nina Yan; Jing Chen; Hubert Pun; Yongqin LeiCase IVEY-9B20M047-EStrategyJingdong (JD), the leading innovation-driven e-commerce company and retail infrastructure service provider in China, had rapidly expanded its enterprise procurement market. In the process, however, it faced major issues related to poor customer experience, the high cost of risk control for the value-added tax (VAT), and inefficient invoice management. In early 2018, JD (the supplier of invoices) collaborated with the China Pacific Insurance (Grou...Starting at €8.20
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Improving a Hockey Team - Teaching Note
Hubert Pun; Josh WeinsteinTeaching Note IVEY-8B18E005-ECorporate GovernanceTeaching note for product 9B18E005.Starting at €0.00
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Yangtzekiang Garment Group Company: Challenges and Opportunities in Transformation- Teaching Note
Jianping Liang; Hubert Pun; Jing ChenTeaching Note IVEY-8B18D001-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B18D001.Starting at €0.00
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Transfer Value of Soccer Players
Hubert Pun; Philip KimCase IVEY-9B16E030-ECorporate Governance, StrategyIn 2016, a soccer fan closely followed the scores, standings, and transfers of players in the European soccer leagues. Having witnessed countless exchanges of players from one team to another, she wondered about the factors that team managers considered when determining the players’ market values. She gathered data on 77 notable soccer players in an effort to better understand the essential factors that made the players valuable. Could she use th...Starting at €8.20
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Kevin Bertolini: Moving Average Strategy
Hubert Pun; Christophe CattryCase IVEY-9B15E006-ECorporate GovernanceOn September 6, 2014, a young investor is trying to find a trading strategy to use to make money on Cisco’s stock. He wants to know whether the stock is increasing or decreasing in value. He decides to use the moving average strategy to avoid the fluctuations in the stock price caused by different short-term phenomena. When should he buy, sell or do nothing?Starting at €8.20
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Kevin Bertolini: Stop-Loss Strategy
Hubert Pun; Alex ZhangCase IVEY-9B15E012-ECorporate GovernanceAn investor has purchased a share of Cisco stock and wants to protect himself from some downside risk using the stop-loss trading strategy. However, he doesn’t want to sell the stock prematurely based on short-term price fluctuations. What is the best threshold for the stop-loss strategy? How does it compare to the holding strategy?Starting at €8.20