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KITEA (E): IKEA's Opening Day
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-719422-EStrategyThe case opens in 2016 as Amine Benkirane, CEO of the furniture retailer KITEA, observes KITEA's dormant sales on the day IKEA opens its first store in Morocco. It then provides information on IKEA's Morocco store, as well as a detailed pricing comparison between IKEA products in Morocco and elsewhere and similar products sold by KITEA. The case then asks whether KITEA had any chance to compete with IKEA under the current circumstances, taking in...Starting at €5.74
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Acibadem Healthcare Group
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Cekin, Esel; Kindred, Natalie; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-315120-EThis case focuses on Ac badem Healthcare Group's, Turkey's only premium nationwide hospital network, potential expansion strategies after it was acquired by International Healthcare Holdings Berhad (IHH) in 2011, the world's second-largest publicly listed health care group and a private hospital leader in Singapore and Malaysia. By providing perspectives on both Ac badem and IHH-Parkway-Pantai's operational models, growth aspirations, collabora...Starting at €8.20
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BTS, K-Pop and the Hallyu: Creating Waves Softly
Tulsi JayakumarCase IVEY-W25501-EEconomicsIn May 2021, the South Korean boy band BTS beat out other international musicians for all four of the Billboard Music Awards for which they had been nominated. “Dynamite,” BTS’s top-selling song, was the band’s first song in English. BTS and other K-pop groups had been able to achieve a high level of global success, especially since 2013, despite singing in a language that was foreign to many listeners. K-pop and other elements of Korea’s ...Starting at €8.20
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Walmart's Flipkart Acquisition: A Showstopper Deal
Tulsi Jayakumar; Sushmita SrivastavaCase IVEY-9B19M095-EStrategyIn May 2018, Walmart Inc. (Walmart) announced its acquisition of a 77 per cent stake in the Indian e-commerce company Flipkart India Pvt. Ltd. (Flipkart). It was the largest acquisition of an Indian company and the world's largest purchase of an e-commercStarting at €8.20
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Cricket Australia: Leadership in Crisis
Tulsi Jayakumar; Ranjan BanerjeeCase IVEY-9B18C039-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn March 2018, Cricket Australia (formerly the Australian Cricket Board) banned the Australian cricket captain from the sport for a year due to his involvement in a premeditated attempt at ball tampering in a test match against South Africa. He was also banned from any leadership positions in the sport for at least a year thereafter and faced financial losses on account of these bans. Australian fans and political leaders were outraged at the bal...Starting at €8.20
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Hillside Beach Club: Delivering the Ultimate Family Vacation in the Mediterranean
Lal, Rajiv; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-516110-EMarketingIn 2015, Edip Ilkbahar, HBC's founder and CEO, was looking over the plans for a new branch in Cyprus. Since the inception of the company by the Alarko Group of companies in 1994, Ilkbahar's company had enjoyed high occupancy, high guest satisfaction, and high return-visitor rates, not to mention increasing profits from HBC's single location in Fethiye, Turkey. Although branching out had been on the agenda for a couple of years, Ilkbahar was feeli...Starting at €8.20
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Jumia's Path to Profitability
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Armerding, Pippa Tubman; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-721355-EStrategyThe case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company's path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company announced two internal issues in August 2019. The case chronicles the founding and expansion of Jumia and the iterations of its business model and describes its competitive outloo...Starting at €8.20
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iyzico: recaudación de fondos en mercados emergentes (B)
Di Maggio, Marco; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-220S02FinanceEl caso se abre en julio de 2016 Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-fundador y CEO de la tecnología de pago iyzico puesta en marcha con sede en Estambul, contempla los pros y los contras de las diferentes hojas de término la compañía ha recibido para su ronda de Serie C. El caso, entonces informa al lector acerca de algunos cambios en las circunstancias que afectan a los términos de las ofertas preseleccionadas. Al final, el caso plantea esta pregunta: que se...Starting at €5.74
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Cooptex: Reinventing Itself - Teaching Note
Tulsi JayakumarTeaching Note IVEY-8B17M091-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B17M091.Starting at €0.00
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KITEA (D): Further Changes
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Yucaoglu, GamzeCase HBS-719489-EStrategyThe case opens in February 2016, when the official date of IKEA's store opening (March 16, 2016) is announced after a five month delay. It reviews the changes that Amine and Othman Benkirane had made to KITEA's workforce in the extra five months afforded by the delay, and asks if KITEA is now ready to compete successfully against IKEA.Starting at €5.74