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The Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com
Authors: Kirby, William C.; McFarlan, F. Warren; Manty, Tracy Yuen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
After graduating from Harvard Business School Ken Pao and Bill Li were ready to fully commit to their Internet start-up. On the day of their launch, they faced a setback from China's Ministry of Education and were forced back to square one.
Using Case Materials to Research Professional Standards on Revenue Recognition Issues
Authors: Krishnan, Sudha; Mintz, Steven M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: American Accounting Association
Publication Year: 2007
MicroStrategy, Inc. is a software company listed on NASDAQ. Since the company came out with an initial public offering (IPO) in June 1998, it has always been identified as a successful, growing company with positive net income. On March 20, 2000, the company announced that it would restate its financial statements for all years since its IPO. This announcement caused its share price to fall 60 percent in one day...
Bank of America and the Carlsbad Highlands Foreclosure (A, B)
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: McGraw-Hill
Publication Year: 1997
Focuses on the dilemma faced by Bank of America executive Jim Jackson when the Bank of America acquired in foreclosure a parcel of land in San Diego County whose development was constrained by an endangered species listing...
Planet Starbucks (B): Caffeinating the World
Authors: Moffett, M.; Ramaswamy, K.
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2003
The case discusses the international expansion efforts of the global coffee retailer, Starbucks.
Chemical Bank: Corporate Contributions
Authors: Woodward, Susan; Paine, Lynn S.; Tulloch, Henry W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1990
The new chief executive officer must decide whether to follow his three presidents' recommendation to cut Chemical Bank's 1984 corporate contributions as part of a general program of cost containment. The case describes Chemical Bank's extensive corporate giving and the rationale behind it...
Acumen Fund and WaterHealth International: The Role of Venture Philanthropy
Authors: Meehan, William F.; Healey, Jane; Hoyt, David W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
The Acumen Fund provides modest amounts of capital, combined with business expertise, to help build enterprises that would serve the poor. The case describes the fund's approach to helping address water resource problems in developing countries.
North Highland: A Remarkable Consulting Firm Built on a Culture of Ownership
Author: Meyertholen, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2008
Own your life, own your career, own your company. That's the philosophy that built this employee-owned company into a highly respected and successful consulting firm.
U2: Reinvention and Strategic Redemption
Author: Cullen, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)
Publication Year: 2007
This case explores the various strategies adopted by the highly successful Irish rock band, U2 which have allowed them international commercial success and influence in the areas of human rights and debt-reduction.
Lightworks Optics
Authors: Lawrence, Anne T.; Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
The firm was meeting to grapple with a thorny issue—whether or not to expand their production capability and, if so, where. Early in its history, LightWorks had set up an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, under which employees gradually built up equity in the closely-held firm.
The Lee David Pesky Center for Learning Enrichment
Authors: Deatherage, Bill; Konze, Sylvia; Shulman, Johnathan; Spielmann, Karl; Vogel, John H., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Amos Tuck School of Business at Darmouth College, New Hampshire
Publication Year: 1999
A successful advertising executive whose son had suffered from learning disabilities and died of a brain tumor, seeks to create a center for the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities to honor his son, in Idaho...
Online File Sharing: The Music Industry's Paradigm Shift
Authors: Lennon, Timothy; Diamond, Leslie; Jelassi, Tawfik
Product Type: Cases
Source: ENPC School of International Management
Publication Year: 2004
This case study should help to look at how established industries respond to threats, and to consider the complexity of the value chain between the original producer of a product (the writer or performer) and the end user - the consumer, who buys the CDs and merchandise.
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. in 1998
Authors: Manz, Charles C.; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: Frank Shipper, Charles C. Manz
Publication Year: 1998
On July 26, 1976, bursting with resolve, Jack Dougherty, a newly minted MBA, from the College of William and Mary, reported for his first day at W. L. Gore & Associates.
Vegetales Cortados Startup Strategy (A, B)
Author: Freeman, Steven F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
The two Vegetales Cortados cases have been written for use early in the term of an entrepreneurship course. They focus on two broad marketing strategy decisions for a young Costa Rican woman trying to establish a vegetable processing business in her home country.
ITC's E-Choupal and Profitable Rural Transformation
Authors: Annamalai, Kuttayan; Rao, Sachin
Product Type: Cases
Source: World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 2003
ITC is setting up of a network of Internet-connected kiosks, known as e-Choupals, through which farmers can receive all the information, products and services they need to enhance their farming productivity and receive a fair price for their harvest.
The Ahold Crisis
Authors: Van Eennennaam, Fred; Mens, Maurits
Product Type: Cases
Source: Nyenrode Business University
Publication Year: 2006
Monday 24 February 2003 was a black day in the history of Royal Ahold. On this day the world's third largest food retailer revealed a major accounting fraud at its subsidiary US Foodservice.
Procter and Gamble Versus Bankers Trust
Authors: Moffett, Michael H.; Petitt, Barbara S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2005
The controversy surrounding the P&G swap losses had threatened to undermine the widespread use of financial derivatives by corporate treasuries in general. These swaps had been entered into under the guise of hedging, but were now being characterized as purely speculative. Corporate finance groups - and their bankers - were all asking the same question: How could this happen?
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the AIDS Crisis in Developing Countries
Author: Kennedy, Robert E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2001
The controversy over the pricing of AIDS drugs in poor countries has received wide publicity. This collection of article excerpts on the issue encourages students to think about the short- and long-term consequences of various approaches, the role of government and international institutions, and the pressures facing drug company executives.
Wal-Mart in Europe
Authors: Gay, Louisa; Trumbull, Gunnar
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
Follows Wal-Mart's widespread difficulties in translating their business model into the German retail market.
Firefighter Brand Products: Launching a New Brand
Authors: Raj, S; Candemir, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cornell University
Publication Year: 2008
John Bello, who had previously founded Sobe, had made his reputation by turning unconventional ideas into successful ventures and was excited about the new Firefighter Brand concept: 'better tasting, better for you and best for America'.
Pay Zone Consulting: A Global Virtual Organization
Authors: Munro, M.; Huff, Sid L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Pay Zone Consulting is a small, highly-specialized, global consulting group providing information management solutions for the exploration and production sector of the oil and gas industry. The case examines the communication technologies employed by the principals in support of their virtual teamwork and describes the administrative information technology (IT) infrastructure that enables the firm to operate with no administrative staff or office.
Chiquita Brands and Terrorism: Legal Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas
Authors: Holcomb, J.; Mayer, D.; O'Brien, K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Indiana University
Publication Year: 2008
This case explores the most prominent (and perhaps only) public inquiry where a US corporation is believed to have provided financial assistance to a foreign terrorist organization.
Felipe Vergara and Lumni: Launching an Innovation in a Developing Economy
Authors: Glinska, Gosia; Parmar, Bidhan; Sarasvathy, Saras D.; Venkataraman, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
The case chronicles the development of Lumni, Inc, an international start-up offering innovative mechanisms for financing higher education.
Leadership, Culture Change, and Transformation at Aviva: Norwich Union Insurance (A, B)
Authors: Galunic, C.; Cagna, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2008
This two-part case study describes the initial merger and cultural transformation of Aviva's Norwich Union (NUI) operation in the UK.
Ashland Oil, Inc. (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Goodpaster, Kenneth E.; Delehunt, Anne K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1990
This case series involves a crisis in business ethics and management decision making, when one of the company's diesel fuel storage tanks collapses, releasing nearly one million gallons of oil into the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. Divided into four cases guiding the reader through the sequence of events as they occur and their eventual repercussion on the company...
Outsourcing at Any Cost?
Author: Friedland, Julian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Leeds School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Do corporations ever have a moral obligation not to outsource?
Reflexite Corporation
Author: Rosenthal, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2009
In March, 2007, Michael Foley, Chief Executive Officer of Reflexite Corporation, had to decide whether to proceed with a change in the company’s employee stock ownership plan. Foley, still in his first year as CEO, pondered the situation: the employees had spoken, but when the man who had built the company strongly objected, shouldn’t one listen?
UVA Proxy Advisory Committee: South African Proxy Issues
Authors: Woodward, Susan; Paine, Lynn S.; Tulloch, Henry W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
The Proxy Advisory Committee of the University of Virginia must recommend to the Finance Committee of the University's Board of Visitors how it should respond to a shareholder resolution requesting Perkin-Elmer to terminate its operations in South Africa...
Second Life: Mercedes-Benz Enters the Metaverse
Authors: Enders, A.; Blarr, H.; Hungenberg, H.; Jelassi, Tawfik
Product Type: Cases
Source: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, University of Nuremburg and ENPC, Paris
Publication Year: 2008
Initiated by a BusinessWeek headline in May 2006, a world-embracing hype about 'Second Life' has spurred many people and companies to enter Linden Lab's virtual world.
Monkeybiz: Marketing The 'Bigger Than Barbie' Dream
Authors: Motala, M; Golestaneh, M
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Cape Town
Publication Year: 2008
Monkeybiz is a registered not-for-profit organization (NPO), which aims to alleviate poverty for South African township bead workers.
BOSSit
Authors: Oveissi, Ali; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
“You're telling me that a call center representative from India can emulate a Texan accent?” Faris asked jokingly. “Exactly! ....Now imagine if we could offer such a service for the entire Middle East from Jordan!” Maher exclaimed. After putting their idea into practice, however, the company encountered a number of problems doing business in Jordan. Paradoxically, companies on the cutting-edge ultimately rely on age-old, face-to-face, relationship-based approaches to grow their business.
Posada Amazonas
Authors: Revilla, Jesus; Perez, Felipe
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN)
Publication Year: 2003
Describes the story of Posada Amazonas, a tourist lodge in the Peruvian jungle, which resulted from a collaboration agreement between the native community Eseja de Infierno and the tourism firm Rainforest Expeditions (RFE)...
Marks & Spencer
Authors: Vandermerwe, Sandra; Taishoff, Marika
Product Type: Cases
Source: Imperial College London
Publication Year: 2003
The case provides a template of how a leading company reacts to and deals with stress, and asks participants to decide what, if anything, M&S should do now.
Infosys (A, B)
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Tandon, Jaya; Rengaswamy, Ganesh
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Infosys challenges itself to balance superb human resources with top-notch financial performance within the context of a growing company.
Do Something--He's About to Snap
Authors: Roche, Eileen; Fox, James Allen; Kaufer, Steve; Pearson, Christine; Porath, Christine; Schouten, Ronald
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
Lynne Tabor, an IT manager at manufacturing giant MMI, has a great team. Everyone works hard and gets along, except Max Dyer, a talented programmer who is terrible in the interpersonal skills department.
Analysis of Islamic Bank Financial Statements
Author: Kettell, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Metropolitan University
Publication Year: 2005
Data is provided here for a cross section of banks from the Islamic banking world. Students are asked to analyze the Islamic financial statements drawing out the differences from conventional bank statements
Seventh Generation: Balancing Customer Expectations with Supply Chain Realities
Authors: Russo, Michael V.; Goldstein, Dan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Lundquist College of Business
Publication Year: 2007
Faced with the prospect of being without a product when a contract manufacturer could no longer make its natural baby wipes, Seventh Generation substituted conventional wipes. But some of the ingredients in these conventional baby wipes proved unacceptable to its customers.
Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (A, B)
Authors: Emmons, Willis; Calles, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Clear Communications Ltd., a joint venture owned by Bell Canada, MCI, New Zealand Television Corp., and Todd Companies, begins offering long distance service in May 1991. The firm is dependent on access to the network of the incumbent, Telecom Corp. of New Zealand, to offer most of its services. Helps students think about the challenges of entry and competition in markets undergoing deregulation and privatization, particularly in industries exhibiting natural monopoly characteristics.
Akamai Technologies
Author: Eisenmann, Thomas R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
As the leading content delivery network, Akamai helps Internet companies deliver Web site content to end users with fewer delays and lower costs. Describes the strategic management challenges facing Akamai in early 2004...
ASIMCO: Developing Human Capital in China
Authors: Wong, Gilbert; Ho, Mary; Wiest, Nailene Chou
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2009
This case helps students study the process of management development and the challenges for companies operating in China, and to examine the benefits and challenges of localization and growing leaders internally.
Driving Change at Seagate
Authors: Raymond, Douglas; Baranowski, Lyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
A new CEO, Steve Luczo, together with COO Bill Watkins, have led a turnaround of Seagate, raising productivity dramatically and increasing innovation through teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and other transformations in the culture of this manufacturer of disk drives for computers...
McDonald's Case (A, B1, B2, C)
Authors: Svoboda, Susan; Hart, Stuart L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 1995
In this corporate strategy collection, Cases (A) and (B) focus on the work of a joint task force developed by the McDonald's Corporation and the Environmental Defense Fund to address McDonald's solid waste management strategy and whether to replace polystyrene packaging with...
Kohlberg Associates: Media Crisis
Authors: Sider, Michael; Mark, Ken
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
A senior partner in a health care consulting firm has to decide what to do in the face of accusations from the CEO of a major health care firm that he is engaged in an unreported conflict of interest...
RBC Financial Group - The Equator Principles in Qatargas II LNG Project
Authors: Klassen, Robert; Gancberg, Matias
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The Royal Bank of Canada was a potential participant in a syndicated loan for a project financing venture in Qatar. The project would extract and process liquid natural gas there and transport it to the United Kingdom market. Two basic questions remained: does the Qatargas II Project make sense to RBC as it attempts to balance economic, environmental and social performance, and do the Equator Principles provide a competitive advantage?
Customers' Revenge
Authors: Ariely, Dan; Farmer, Tom; Bennett, Nate; Martin, Chris; Fein, Nancy; Libai, Barak
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2007
Venerable Detroit automaker Atida Motors has a new call center in Bangalore that the company hopes will raise its reputation for customer service. But it doesn't appear to be doing so yet.
Tembec Inc. (A, B)
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Ewart, Tom
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
On November 29, 1998, Frank Dottori, president and chief executive officer of Tembec Inc. was trying to pull together a response to the recommendations by the Ontario government for the Lands for Life program. He was worried about the recommendation to increase protected areas, which he thought would further polarize the industry's stakeholders and financially threaten his company...
Socially Responsible Distribution: Strategies for Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid
Authors: Vachani, Sushil; Smith, N. Craig
Product Type: Cases
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2008
This article identifies how socially responsible distribution can be achieved by strategies that reduce costs, reinvent the distribution channel, or incorporate a long-term approach to investment.
Borden v. Kraft Inc. (A): A Competitive Advertising Challenge
Authors: Kopp, Robert J.; Petty, Ross D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 1995
Borden and Kraft are leaders in the US cheese market and their competitive battle has spilled over into the courts. Borden has challenged Kraft's advertising, under the Lanham Act, as being deceptive and is asking the judge to grant a "preliminary injunction"...
Kent Thiry and DaVita
Author: Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2006
DaVita, one of the largest operators of kidney dialysis centers in the United States, underwent a remarkable turnaround between 2000 and 2005, a transformation based on building a strong values-driven culture, with an emphasis on fact-based decision making and the theme of "one for all, all for one" and an emphasis on company as community.
Great Lakes: Great Decisions (A)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
One of the few remaining producers of lead additives must decide whether to continue producing them for use abroad.
Norando-Andacollo
Authors: Killing, Peter; Richardson, Peter
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2004
Noranda is preparing to develop a $400 million copper mine in Chile. The Task Force of Canadian Churches opposes the investment because of the lack of human rights in Chile and has made its presence felt at Noranda's last five annual meetings...
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