Ivey Business School (Canada)
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GE South Africa: Londvolota’s Contextual Leadership for Creating Shared Value
Caren Scheepers; Abdullah Verachia; Ingrid TruslerCase IVEY-9B21M007-EStrategyIn January 2019, one of the founding members and current board members of Londvolota, a South African trust formed by General Electric South Africa (GESA) in 2015, faced a challenge. Londvolota needed to improve the establishment and growth of entrepreneurial South African businesses as part of GESA’s development of local suppliers, which aimed to enable the best of these businesses to supply the global GE network. The initiative represented a ma...Starting at €8.20
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LIDL: A German Grocer in the United States
Lubna Nafees; Neel Das; Mokhalles MehdiCase IVEY-9B19A007-EMarketing, StrategyIn 2017, the German grocery chain Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (Lidl) opened its first 20 U.S. stores in the southern states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Key target segments of Lidl were budget-conscious customers, middle-class families with children, and elderly customers on a fixed income. Lidl offered lower prices than its competitors and quickly gained a strong advantage in the marketplace. Despite high early consumer demand, ho...Starting at €8.20
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ExtraCarbon: Working for a Cleaner Future
Rakesh Gupta; Lubna Nafees; Saumyajit GuhaCase IVEY-9B20M044-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyExtraCarbon was a company focused on the sorting stage of India’s unorganized waste management industry. The company was founded in 2013 with owners’ capital and some investments from friends and family. In October 2018, one of these friend investors expressed a desire to exit the venture. Although ExtraCarbon had made steady progress since its founding, the company did not have enough money to buy out the investor’s stake, and the company’s valu...Starting at €8.20
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Mkhiwa Trust: Contextualizing a Couple’s Servant Leadership - Teaching Note
Caren Scheepers; Abdullah Verachia; Natalie van der Veen; Mologadi KekanaTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C021-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20C021.Starting at €0.00
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Mini Iron & Alloys Private Limited: Springing into a New Future
Rajiv Misra; Arohini Narain; Shloka JaiswalCase IVEY-9B20D020-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThe case details the challenges of running a small manufacturing enterprise in India. The current operations at Mini Iron & Alloys Private Limited (MIA), which produced springs for rail wagons, were stable, and business had grown. However, the demand forStarting at €8.20
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Pharmeasy: Expansion Dilemma Amidst Regulatory Uncertainties
Rakesh Gupta; Lubna NafeesCase IVEY-9B20M090-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe two co-founders of PharmEasy, an online medical store and pharmacy website launched in 2015, faced a new challenge in December 2018. Recent judgments by the Madras and Delhi High Courts had suspended the operations of India’s more than 250 online pharStarting at €8.20
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Global Metal Company: The Challenges of Scaling Up in the Unorganized Sector - Teaching Note
Lubna Nafees; Rakesh GuptaTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M025-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M025.Starting at €0.00
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Chariot Comics: Faster Release
Rajiv Misra; Aniruddho ChakrabortyCase IVEY-9B13DS007Service and Operations Management, StrategyChariot Comics, a comic-book production house, is refining its processes for the production of comics. Currently, launching a comic requires 52 to 54 days, which the company wants to reduce to 45 days. Working toward this objective requires analysis of the current process and a review of the various alternatives to achieving the desired time reduction.Starting at €8.20
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Education Africa: Networks and Coalitions for Securing Non-Profit Funding - Teaching Note
Tracey Toefy; Abdullah VerachiaTeaching Note IVEY-W26674-EStrategyTeaching note for product W26673.Starting at €0.00
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Apollo Tyres India: Sustaining an Organic Growth
Lubna Nafees; Akshay Kumar; Kaushik DattaCase IVEY-9B15M070-EStrategyThe chairman of one of India’s leading tire manufacturers must devise a strategy to maintain his company’s significant position in the tire industry. To date, the company has generated most of its revenues from sales in India, and it has become a leading player in the Indian commercial vehicle segment. With an overall slowdown in the manufacturing sector, the commercial vehicle segment has been hard-hit. The passenger car segment, however, is exp...Starting at €8.20