Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Identifying Industries through Financial Statement Analysis: Pakistan 2017
Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-9B21B012-EAccounting and Control, FinanceThis exercise provides the financial data of eight major companies operating in Pakistan in 2019 and listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It also provides a list of eight of the country’s main industries. Identify which company operated within which industry to test your understanding of how a company’s financial data can be specific to a particular industry. Using only financial figures, can you identify within which industry each company oper...Starting at €8.20
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Identifying Industries: Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Ratio Analysis
Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Imran Yousaf; Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-W25421-EAccounting and Control, FinanceStudents were provided with the financial data for 10 major companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2019. They were also given a list of 10 major industries. As an exercise, students were then asked to identify which company operated within which industry. The exercise would test the students' understanding of how a company’s financial data can be specific to a particular industry. Using only financial figures, could the student identi...Starting at €8.20
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Konica Minolta Business Solutions (HK) Ltd.: Pioneering Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
Kevin Au; Rebecca ChungCase IVEY-9B19M008-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyKonica Minolta Business Solutions (HK) Ltd. was likely the first multinational corporation in Hong Kong to put the ideas of corporate social enterprising into practice. Its new service business that was launched in 2014 (the i-Transform Station) employed so-called “hidden youths”—disadvantaged individuals who refrained from joining mainstream society—empowering them to reconnect with society. While the initiative drew the attention of the company...Starting at €8.20
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Succession in Chinese Family Businesses (A): Fotile and the Mao Family
Jean Lee; Rebecca Chung; An JingCase IVEY-9B15C020-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe three cases in this series focus on two Chinese families’ experiences with entrepreneurship and succession. Because most family businesses in China are relatively young, these first-generation entrepreneurs use their own approach to identify and develop their successors, and to pass their “wealth” to their offspring in a context shaped by unique Chinese cultural elements. The role-play exercise that relates to the (C) case illustrates the cur...Starting at €8.20
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GE China Technology Center: Evolving Role in Global Innovation
Haiyang Li; Rebecca ChungCase IVEY-9B15M099-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Bringing Technology to Market Award, 2016 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. This case describes how General Electric has developed its China Technology Center over the past decade. The case also elaborates on the changing role of the China Technology Center in General Electric’s global research and development strategy. In 2000, General Electric set up its China Technology Center ...Starting at €8.20
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Wensli Silk: Succession and International Luxury Branding
Jean Lee; Rebecca Chung; An JingCase IVEY-9B16C023-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2011, China-based Wensli Group’s newly appointed chairwoman was preparing to transform the company’s silk business into a global luxury brand. It was a lofty goal for a company that started out as a township silk factory before growing into the largest silk-producing company in China. Tapping into the luxury market, however, presented a challenge because Chinese companies were better known for producing cost-conscious products. That meant Wens...Starting at €8.20
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Imaam Spinning Mills: Cost of Capital of a Private Company
Aaqib Nawaz; Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) LiCase IVEY-W34046-EAccounting and Control, FinanceOn January 2, 2018, the chief executive officer of a private company in Karachi, Pakistan, Imaam Spinning Mills (Imaam), was planning to expand the company’s product line and enter the weaving business by setting up a new weaving plant. He asked his chief financial officer to conduct a financial evaluation financial evaluation of the project. To do so, she needed to calculate the weighted average cost of capital, using the comparative method to c...Starting at €8.20
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Imaam Spinning Mills: Cost of Capital of a Private Company - Teaching Note
Aaqib Nawaz; Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) LiTeaching Note IVEY-W34047-EAccounting and Control, FinanceTeaching note for product W34046.Starting at €0.00
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BreadTalk Group: Transformation through Talent and Technology - Teaching Note
Jean Lee; Rebecca Chung; Leah TanTeaching Note IVEY-8B21C008-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B21C008.Starting at €0.00
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Neoglory Holdings Group: The Succession Choice
Jean Lee; Rebecca Chung; Yunting Lu; An JingCase IVEY-9B15C040-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2008, the chairwoman of the Neoglory Holdings Group (Group) convinced her 23-year-old son to join the Group’s fashion jewelry business. By 2014, she was determined to quadruple the Group’s assets to RMB 100 billion in 10 years. While she had just appointed her son as the vice-president of the Group in order to help her achieve such an ambition, she pondered when she should let him fully take over the Group; whether she should hire non-family e...Starting at €8.20