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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Goats: The Green Alternative (C)
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerCase IVEY-9B15D001-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementThe operator of a dairy farm in Tennessee has begun renting goats for landscaping (see Goats: The Green Alternative (A) 9B11B018). The business proved successful so he considered expanding the operation (see Goats: The Green Alternative (B) 9B11B025). Now, he consults with a statistician to learn how to incorporate uncertainty into the decision about expanding. The case incorporates three types of uncertainty into a spreadsheet analysis of the ex...Starting at €5.74
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Ministry of Finance, Japan
David M. Currie; Laurel AdamsCase IVEY-9B08M013-EStrategyIn June 1997, the Bank of Thailand must decide whether to continue or to abandon the peg of the baht to the U.S dollar. Recent economic performance in Thailand has caused speculation that the central bank will abandon the currency peg, but the bank's stated policy for many years has been that it will maintain the peg. Background about the Thai economy is presented in the core case, product 9B01M025. Other cases enable students to play roles of im...Starting at €8.20
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Tata Power: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Rama Deshmukh; Atanu AdhikariCase IVEY-9B10M013-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHIGHLY COMMENDED CASE - Indian Management Issues and Opportunities Runner-up, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. The case describes the strategic dilemma involved in making a decision on the method of operation of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) department for one of the leading Indian multinational corporations, Tata Power Company (TPC) from Tata Group of Companies. TPC had undertaken t...Starting at €8.20
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UTV and Disney: A Strategic Alliance (A)
Atanu Adhikari; Rama DeshmukhCase IVEY-9B10M043-EStrategyIn 2006, the senior vice-president of business development and strategy has to decide whether UTV Software Communications Ltd. (UTV) should go ahead with a joint venture with Walt Disney Company (Disney) even if it means selling Hungama TV, the leading children's channel in India, to Disney. UTV was a large media company in India and had diversified interests, including TV content, movies, animation and new media content. Although UTV had opened ...Starting at €8.20
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Goats: The Green Alternative (A) - Teaching Note
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerTeaching Note IVEY-8B11B018-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B11B018.Starting at €0.00
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Orchid Ecotel: Leveraging Green Hoteling as Core Competency
Rama Deshmukh; Atanu AdhikariCase IVEY-9B11A045-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyVithal Kamat, chairman and managing director of Kamat Hotels India Ltd., was a second-generation entrepreneur who has taken the Kamat Hotels brand to new heights. Kamat Hotels included five major verticals, from five-star luxury hotels (The Orchid Ecotels) to economy restaurants (Kamat Restaurants) catering to different customer segments. Kamat had ambitious plans for the expansion of every vertical using alternative growth strategies. However, t...Starting at €8.20
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ideaForge: Mechanical Charger
Atanu Adhikari; Rama DeshmukhCase IVEY-9B12A013-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn an era of ever-changing technology, the challenge for a social entrepreneur is to cope with the fast pace of change. With a concern for the environment and energy conservation, the entrepreneur in this case became an entrepreneur with the development of a new product – a mechanical charger. His company, ideaForge, manufactured and sold two types of products: mechanical chargers and other conventional chargers such as bike chargers. The mechani...Starting at €8.20
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Goats: The Green Alternative (B)
Kyle S. Meyer; David M. CurrieCase IVEY-9B11B025-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, FinanceThis case is a supplement to Goats: The Green Alternative (A). The (B) case can be used independently of the (A) case if the professor wishes to focus exclusively on capital budgeting. See also Goats: The Green Alternative (C) 9B15D001.Starting at €5.74
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Black River Farms
David M. Currie; Kyle S. MeyerCase IVEY-9B17B021-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipIn 2016, the owner of a cow-calf operation must decide what the appropriate weight for cows in their herd is. For decades, the national trend has been for cow weights to increase because they produce larger calves, but evidence indicates that cow weights may have reached the point where the cost of maintaining a larger cow has become greater than the return from producing a larger calf. Analyzing this issue introduces marginal principles from eco...Starting at €8.20
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Estimating Demand in Emerging Markets for Kodak Express
Ilan Alon; David M. CurrieCase IVEY-9B11A026-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyAn executive must estimate the demand for Kodak Express outlets in various developing countries based on socioeconomic and demographic data about the countries. The case requires students to think about how to transform data on a national scale (GDP per capita, population, income distribution) into a form that is meaningful for a managerial decision — here, the number of outlets that could be supported by a country’s market demographics. In this ...Starting at €8.20