Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Nokia: From In-house to Joint R&D
Marcus Moller Larsen; Torben PedersenCase IVEY-9B11M114-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case describes the organizational and strategic challenges of outsourcing research and development (R&D) activities from Denmark to China. Nokia Denmark was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Nokia Corporation and contained the largest Nokia R&D unit, concentrating on the development of mobile phones, outside Finland. In 2007, Nokia Denmark received instructions from corporate headquarters to drastically increase the number of mobile pho...Starting at €8.20
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Carlsberg in Emerging Markets
Michael W. Hansen; Torben Pedersen; Marcus Moller LarsenCase IVEY-9B11M009-EService and Operations Management, StrategyRisking becoming the target of a hostile takeover or being cornered as a small regional player in the global beer industry, the Danish brewery Carlsberg decided in the early 2000s to expand into rapidly growing emerging markets to pursue new arenas of growth. By 2008, this strategy had paid off, and Carlsberg was positioned among the five largest breweries in the world. In the Russian market — one of the fastest-growing markets in the world — Car...Starting at €8.20
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Vestas Wind Systems A/S - Exploiting Global R&D Synergies
Torben Pedersen; Marcus Moller LarsenCase IVEY-9B09M079-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyWith a change in management in 2005 came a radical reorganization and the announcement of several new strategic initiatives. Among the initiatives was the establishment of the Vestas Technology research and development (R&D) business unit with an aim of achieving global leadership in all core technology areas and, consequently, strengthening the core competence for the company. By 2008, Vestas had succeeded in setting up a global R&D network with...Starting at €8.20
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Telenor Group: Developing a New Business Model
Frank Elter; Marcus Moller Larsen; Torben PedersenCase IVEY-9B19M122-EStrategyIn January 2019, the telecommunications industry was under severe threat of disruption. Telecommunications companies (telcos), which had historically been able to cope with technological disruption by moving from first-generation through to fifth-generatiStarting at €8.20
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Zhuyeqing Tea Co.: Reassessing Strategic Direction - Teaching Note
Haifen Lin; Yanfang Hu; Xianhong TangTeaching Note IVEY-8B21M029-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B21M029.Starting at €0.00
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Zhuyeqing Tea Co.: Reassessing Strategic Direction
Haifen Lin; Yanfang Hu; Fen Hu; Xianhong TangCase IVEY-9B21M029-EStrategyIn 2018, the chairman of Sichuan Mt. Emei Zhuyeqing Tea Co., Ltd. (ZT), a tea enterprise founded in 1998, faced a strategic decision. ZT had become an economic entity in China, having successfully integrated tea plantation, cultivation, processing, and marketing. Since 2013, however, ZT had experienced sluggish growth. According to a third-party research report, the company’s development bottleneck was caused by fuzzy strategy and an out-of-focus...Starting at €8.20
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Coloplast: Ten Years of Global Operations
Marcus Moller Larsen; Torben PedersenCase IVEY-9B12M070-EStrategyIn just a decade, the Danish health care product manufacturer Coloplast underwent a major transformation from a local Danish manufacturing company to a truly multinational corporation. In 2001, Coloplast conducted all its production in-house in three production facilities in Denmark. Ten years later, the company had relocated almost 90 per cent of the production to four different countries, with the majority in Hungary and China. However, a trans...Starting at €8.20
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Bosideng: How to Revitalize the Brand - Teaching Note
Haifen Lin; Hongshuang Liu; Yanfang Hu; Haixin HuangTeaching Note IVEY-8B20A062-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B20A062.Starting at €0.00
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Bosideng: How to Revitalize the Brand
Haifen Lin; Hongshuang Liu; Yanfang Hu; Haixin HuangCase IVEY-9B20A062-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingBy 2017, the comprehensive multi-brand Chinese clothing manufacturer Bosideng International Holdings Limited (Bosideng), founded in 1976, had become famous for its main business of down jackets. After almost 40 years of rapid development, Bosideng had become the top brand in the Chinese down apparel industry and had established strong brand equity. However, the company’s performance had been in decline since 2013. Faced with increasingly fierce c...Starting at €8.20
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Lego Group: An Outsourcing Journey
Marcus Moller Larsen; Torben Pedersen; Dmitrij SlepniovCase IVEY-9B10M094-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe last year's rather adventurous journey from 2004 to 2009 had taught the fifth-largest toy-maker in the world - the LEGO Group - the importance of managing the global supply chain effectively. In order to survive the largest internal financial crisis in its roughly 70 years of existence, the management had, among many initiatives, decided to offshore and outsource a major chunk of its production to Flextronics. In this pursuit of rapid cost-cu...Starting at €8.20