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The Transformations of Wal-Mart: Experimenting with New Retail Paradigms
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B11M024-EStrategyBeginning in the 1990s, Wal-Mart sought to maintain its rapid growth by investing outside of the United States. It chose to enter other countries through the purchase of existing retail chains. This process created a new set of challenges, since the existing chains had their own corporate cultures and operating procedures, and Wal-Mart experienced several surprising defeats. In 2000, Wal-Mart launched a chain of what it called Neighborhood Market...Starting at €8.20
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Basel III: An Evaluation of New Banking Regulations
David W. Conklin; David BlaylockCase IVEY-9B10N029-EFinanceThe most recent recessionary period and credit crisis has precipitated discussions on the importance of stable financial systems. Many national governments are considering enacting stricter regulation on financial markets and bank liquidity. National and international supervisors will implement regulatory adjustments through coordinated efforts or independently in the next few years. There will be major developments in the banking industry within...Starting at €8.20
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ING and Global Financial Integration (B)
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B08M027-EStrategyGlobal financial markets had changed dramatically in the decade following the ING (A) case, product # 9A99M022. This (B) case points to the nature of these changes, creating an opportunity for students to discuss them. Meanwhile, ING had also altered its global strategy, eliminating its attempts to create a global investment bank, and focusing its activities on specific financial sectors, each of which reported directly to head office. This new s...Starting at €5.74
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Great Recession, 2007-2010: Causes and Consequences
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B10M008-EFinance, StrategyA recession in the U.S. economy began at the end of 2007. Concerns deepened as an epic financial crisis shattered business and consumer confidence. By the fall of 2008, the United States was in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, and major financial institutions were on the verge of bankruptcy. The financial crisis and recession spread around the world. Many saw a risk that the global financial system might collapse, perhaps precipi...Starting at €8.20
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Geely's Acquisition of Volvo: Challenges and Opportunities
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B10M057-EStrategyFor more than a decade, the government of China had sought to develop an automotive industry. The government's initial steps involved the creation of joint ventures in which government-owned firms became partners of foreign privately owned corporations. Most of these joint ventures were extremely successful financially. However, ongoing differences in management preferences created a continual tension within the joint ventures. Of particular conc...Starting at €8.20
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China's Economy 2012
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B10M050-EStrategyBy 2010, China's economy faced a series of challenges that could threaten its growth and trade balance. This case presents a structure for students to discuss China's economy in the context of these threats. Prior to this time, there had been general feeling that China could continue indefinitely with its exceptionally high growth rate of approximately 10 per cent annually. The substantial gap between wages in economically advanced nations and Ch...Starting at €8.20
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The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis: Causes, Impacts and the Need for New Regulations
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B08N014-EFinance, StrategyThe financial system is the heart of free market economies. The 2007-2008 financial crisis raised concerns that the global financial and economic system might experience a truly substantial collapse. New financial instruments had proliferated to the degree that it had become impossible to calculate the market value of many of them, and so it had become impossible to know the market value of institutions that held them or that guaranteed them. The...Starting at €8.20
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China's Trade Disputes
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B09M018-EStrategyBy 2009, China's exports had increased dramatically from $250 billion in 2000 to a projected $1,500 billion in 2009. This enormous growth of exports severely damaged competing businesses in the advanced nations, particularly the United States and Europe. China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 guaranteed China's right to export to these nations, but at the same time the WTO required China to adhere to certain rules that soug...Starting at €8.20
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Mexico’s Economy, 2009 (Spanish version)
David W. Conklin; Danielle CadieuxCase IVEY-9B08MS84StrategyMéxico tenía una historia de crisis financieras repetidas, con la alta inflación llevando a los déficits por cuenta corriente con las aportaciones de capitales volátiles, culminando en devaluaciones significativas. Las preocupaciones persistieron que este patrón pudo repetirse en el futuro. En los años antes del año 80, el gobierno de México había puesto una economía en el lugar del comando y del control con un arsenal extenso de las regulaciones...Starting at €8.20
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The Risks of Global Economic Stagnation
David W. Conklin; Guy L.F. HolburnCase IVEY-9B16M121-EStrategyIn early 2016, stock markets around the world plummeted, raising the threat of another major depression enveloping the world. In their struggle to recover from the post-2008 global recession, many nations had expanded their money supply and lowered interest rates, with the aim of stimulating both consumer spending and corporate investment. While some of this monetary expansion increased production and employment, much of it created bubbles in ass...Starting at €8.20