Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Agarwal Packers and Movers Limited: Relocating Emotions
Anupama PrasharCase IVEY-9B19A003-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn September 2018, the leadership team of Agarwal Packers and Movers Limited (APML) gathered for a meeting at the company’s headquarters, located in the heart of New Delhi, India. The founder was considering whether the company should go public by the end of 2019. Since APML’s inception in 1987, the team had worked hard to create a healthy brand recall, establish customer loyalty, and build a robust financial base. However, in the 18 months leadi...Starting at €8.20
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Agarwal Packers and Movers Limited: Relocating Emotions - Teaching Note
Anupama PrasharTeaching Note IVEY-8B19A003-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B19A003.Starting at €0.00
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JCB Construction Equipment: Made in India for the World - Teaching Note
Anupama PrasharTeaching Note IVEY-8B16M039-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B16M039.Starting at €0.00
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Tashn.com: Developing Merchandising for a Competitive Advantage - Teaching Note
Ritu Srivastava; Anupama Prashar; Punit BhardwajTeaching Note IVEY-8B18A010-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B18A010.Starting at €0.00
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JCB Construction Equipment: Made in India for the World
Anupama PrasharCase IVEY-9B16M039-EStrategyIn November 2014, JCB — the world’s leading construction equipment manufacturer, with a presence in 150 countries — decided to add two more facilities to its existing manufacturing strength in India. Based in the United Kingdom, JCB had put US$300 million into building its production and service capabilities since its entry into the Indian construction equipment market in 1979. However, the intricate business environment in India and its difficul...Starting at €8.20
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Crescent Standard Investment Bank Limited — Governance Failure
Muntazar Bashir AhmedCase IVEY-9B08M068-EStrategyThe Crescent Standard Investment Bank Limited (CSIBL) was the largest investment bank quoted on all the stock exchanges in Pakistan, so when it declared a huge loss of Rs2.1 billion (US$35.5 million) for the year December 31, 2005, the market was taken by surprise. There had been some rumours that all was not well and that the investment banking regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), had sent a team to investigate the a...Starting at €8.20
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Pak Arab Refinery Limited (PARCO) - Management of Circular Debt
Muntazar Bashir AhmedCase IVEY-9B11M047-EFinance, StrategyThis case describes how significant debt was built up in Pakistan among the private- and public-sector energy and power-generation companies, which were some of the country’s largest organizations. An unexpected slowdown in recovery of payments created debt that affected corporate business operations and the Pakistani economy as a whole. The case discusses the energy and power sectors, along with the reasons for the circular debt. The Pakistani g...Starting at €8.20
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Vaidam Health: Facilitating Medical-Value Travel
Anupama PrasharCase IVEY-9B18M122-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHeadquartered in Gurgaon, India, Vaidam Health Private Limited (Vaidam) was an online medical-value-travel (MVT) facilitator that had been hosting overseas patients travelling to India for medical treatment since its inception in January 2016. It had partnered with over 100 world-class health care facilities across the major cities in the country. Given the improved attractiveness of the MVT services, the founders of Vaidam realized that they wou...Starting at €8.20
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Pak Elektron Limited: Converting Systems to ERP
Muntazar Bashir AhmedCase IVEY-9B12E002-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyPak Elektron Limited was a prominent manufacturer of consumer home appliances, large distribution and power transformers, and switch gears for power companies in Pakistan. From 2007, the company had started the process of changing the information systems of the company. These systems had become outdated as Microsoft withdrew its support of Visual FoxPro, the platform on which all systems had been developed. The company decided that a Tier 1 ERP (...Starting at €8.20
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Parentune.com: Partnering Parents
Anupama PrasharCase IVEY-9B17D002-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn June 2016, the founder and chief executive officer of Parentune.com, a rapidly growing online parents’ community based in Gurgaon, India, was feeling the pressure of keeping his parenting support service relevant to the changing needs of millennial parents. Parentune.com supported parents at all stages of parenting by networking parents and experts. Since Parentune.com launched in November 2012, more than one million parents had become members...Starting at €8.20