Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Shubham Goldiee Masale Private Limited: Consolidate or Expand - Teaching Note
Sabyasachi Sinha; Vinod ThakurTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M080-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M080.Starting at €0.00
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Malabar Gold & Diamonds: Expansion Plans
Vinod Thakur; Sabyasachi SinhaCase IVEY-W26278-EStrategyMalabar Gold & Diamonds (Malabar) was established in 1993 in Kerala, India. By 2019, the company was a leading retail chain in India's jewellery market and one of the top five jewellery businesses in the world, selling their products through 117 Indian outlets and 143 global outlets across nine countries. Most of Malabar's domestic revenue came from the southern region of India, and the company was looking to extend its footprint across the entir...Starting at €8.20
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North Dakota Trade Office: Advising a Pasta Exporter
Derek Lehmberg; Jaeha LeeCase IVEY-W25445-EStrategyIn September of 2020, an international business executive at the North Dakota Trade Office was asked by a client company, Dakota Growers Pasta Company Inc., to advise it on how to increase pasta exports to South Korea. Like many other firms in North Dakota, the client faced a number of hurdles to building successful export businesses. These included limited exposure to foreign markets and limited expertise in trade-related regulations and process...Starting at €8.20
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Shubham Goldiee Masale Private Limited: Consolidate or Expand
Sabyasachi Sinha; Vinod ThakurCase IVEY-9B20M080-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyShubam Goldiee Masale Private Limited was a family business established by two childhood friends in 1980 in Kanpur, northern India. In 2004, second-generation family members began joining the business. With the arrival of the new generation, the company started renewing its business operations. The two founders divided specific management roles and responsibilities of key departments among second-generation family members, although control of the...Starting at €8.20
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Boots PLC: Japan Market Entry
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B12M048-EStrategyIn 1998, Boots PLC was in the midst of planning to enter the Japanese retail drugstore market. Boots, a household name in the United Kingdom and a fixture in traditional English shopping areas known as High Street, had an impressive lineup of Boots-branded health and beauty products. Boots developed, manufactured, marketed, and sold these products through its chain of Boots The Chemists stores. Management was convinced that the markets for health...Starting at €8.20
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Sharp Corporation: Beyond Japan
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M007-EStrategyFaced with major losses from operations, Sharp Corporation’s young and unconventional president questioned the company’s long-standing operating model. Sharp was a leader in the area of liquid crystal display (LCD) technology and manufacturing. It also held strong positions in several categories of consumer electronics in the Japanese market. Although Sharp had been increasing its involvement in overseas markets, it had yet to replicate its succe...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (A)
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M093-EStrategyIn 2004, Kaneo Itoh, president of the consumer electronics firm Pioneer Corporation, was considering acquiring the plasma display operations of another Japanese firm, NEC. Pioneer had decided some years ago that plasma display panel (PDP) technology was a good strategic area in which to invest. Recently, Pioneer had been selling increasing numbers of plasma television sets using PDPs. While the company was building a new PDP production facility t...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (B)
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M094-EStrategyThis case, a supplement to Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (A), is set in 2009.Starting at €5.74
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General Electric: An Outlier in Developing CEO Talent
W. Glenn Rowe; Derek Lehmberg; Rod E. White; John R. PhillipsArticle IVEY-9B09TA02-EStrategyA recent Ivey study confirms the commonly held view that General Electric is an excellent breeding ground for future business leaders. This article summarizes the study and its three conclusions: Firms led by CEOs who were trained at GE will outperform firms led by CEOs who were not; GE's reputation for developing CEO talent is, in fact, well deserved and not mere hype; and GE appears to develop more CEO talent than other noted CEO talent-generat...Starting at €8.20
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Malabar Gold & Diamonds: Expansion Plans - Teaching Note
Vinod Thakur; Sabyasachi SinhaTeaching Note IVEY-W26279-EStrategyTeaching note for product W26278.Starting at €0.00