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Toys R Us Japan
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; MacKenzie, Jacqueline; Bures, Laura
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1999
Documents the American retailer's process of entry into the Japanese toy market. Discusses the history of Toys "R" Us in the United States as well as the history of the Japanese toy market, distribution, wholesaling, and retailing systems...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act: How Did We Get Here?
Author: Keating, Elizabeth
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2006
The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, known as “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”, was passed in 2002 following a series of corporate bankruptcies and allegations of executive management malfeasance, most notably Enron and WorldCom. The regulation of securities had not been this significantly altered since...
Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A)
Author: Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Consumer Bank pondered the possibilities of launching a credit card in the Asia Pacific region. The bank's New York headquarters, and several of its country managers in the region, were not enthusiastic...
Amway in China (A, B)
Authors: Tan, David; Tan, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
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Amway is a large manufacturer of household products that uses the direct selling approach. It has expanded into different markets over the years, most recently the Chinese market. However, the company must look at its strategy after the Chinese government implements regulations on the direct marketing business model...
Wal-Mart's Sustainability Strategy
Authors: Plambeck, Erica; Denend, Lyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
Senior executives at Wal-Mart launched the company's new sustainability strategy in 2005. The case describes their efforts to keep environmental improvement tightly coupled with business values and profitability.
Energy Efficiency Teaching Module
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
At its core, energy efficiency is about doing more with less. In times of a down economy and uncertain energy prices, the importance of saving energy seems clear; over the long term, however, how does a focus on energy efficiency make sense for business? Business is both uniquely suited to address the problems of energy efficiency and to reap the potential rewards of those solutions, if it is able to meld social and profit constraints into a plan for an innovative energy future. The purpose of this Module is to discuss energy efficiency as a strategic solution rather than a defensive reaction, and to present ways to manage challenges and make the most of opportunities at this intersection of business and society.
Bombardier Versus Embraer: Charges of Unfair Competition
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Hunter, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 1999
One of Canada's high-tech success stories, Bombardier, changed the airline industry with the introduction of its short-haul turbo-prop planes and jets in the early 1990s. By the mid-1990s, a new player from Brazil, Embraer, had entered the market and was capturing a lot of business from Bombardier...
PowerPoint: The WorldCom Fraud
Author: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Publication Year: 2005
This PowerPoint presentation focuses on the WorldCom accounting fraud uncovered in 2002. It reviews WorldCom's rise to industry leadership, expansion, and eventual fall in the wake of one of the largest accounting scandals in history.
Wal-Mart Stores
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Wang, Iris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Asia Case Research Center, University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2006
This case provides students with a basic understanding of the concept of competitive advantage and its sources through a discussion of Wal-Mart's success in the U.S. It also discusses the challenges of replicating a successful domestic strategy in a different market environment, explores whether a firm is able to transport its competitive advantage from one market to another using the example of Wal-Mart's entry into China, and thinks about potential strategies that Wal-Mart China should consider going forward.
Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Controversy
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North American Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Fall 1993; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1993
Keith R. McKennon, the new CEO of Dow Corning Corporation, had to decide what to do next as the silicone breast implant controversy reached crisis proportions...
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