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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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Metropolitan College
P. Fraser Johnson; Robert KlassenCase IVEY-9B09D012-EService and Operations ManagementA manager of Student Services at a small college was very concerned about the delays and costs of processing student registrations during the annual orientation week. She glanced at recently collected data on processing times for the six major steps that the registration process required. She wondered how the process might be improved while balancing budgetary pressures to reduce costs.Starting at €8.20
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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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CRP Products
David Wood; Robert KlassenCase IVEY-9B11D015-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Service and Operations ManagementBruce Ballantyne had recently joined C.R.P. Products (CRP), a furniture manufacturer in Stratford, Ontario, to help review the company’s operations and assess what changes were necessary to keep up with demand. Although it was early 2011 and the peak season was still four months away, Ballantyne knew that he would have to determine what equipment was needed over the next three weeks to ensure it was delivered and installed before the peak season....Starting at €8.20
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India's Demonetization: Purging Black Money - Teaching Note
Tulsi JayakumarTeaching Note IVEY-8B17M179-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B17M179.Starting at €0.00
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Britannia Industries Ltd.
Robert Klassen; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13M010-EStrategyThe CEO of Britannia Industries Ltd, a manufacturer of bakery products, was at a crossroads. Two years earlier, the firm had started providing specially fortified biscuits to small groups of school-going children in selected locations in India. The product offered a step toward addressing the widespread national problem of malnutrition and, unlike corporate philanthropy, this initiative was an extension of what the company was fundamentally good ...Starting at €8.20
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Building Sustainable Distribution at Walmart Canada
Robert Klassen; P. Fraser Johnson; Asad ShafiqCase IVEY-9B13D010-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe director of logistics at Walmart Canada, was developing plans for a new distribution centre in Alberta. Senior management had presented her with a challenge: why not build the most sustainable distribution centre in the world? Yet, much remained unclear about how to translate this challenge into specific actions, while keeping in mind corporate goals for sustainability. Her team now was exploring three options that promised to be significantl...Starting at €8.20
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Cooptex: Reinventing Itself
Tulsi JayakumarCase IVEY-9B17M091-EStrategyIn August 2015, the managing director of the Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society Ltd. (Co-optex), an Indian state handloom co-operative, was preparing to receive an award for one of the organization’s products during the first National Handloom Day celebrations in India. While the award was a validation of the managing director’s efforts to revive Co-optex, which had accumulated significant losses for 13 years, his worries were far ...Starting at €8.20
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Google Play Store in India: Playing with Networks - Teaching Note
Tulsi JayakumarTeaching Note IVEY-8B21M044-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B21M044.Starting at €0.00
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Tesla Inc.: Accelerating Sustainable Profits - Teaching Note
Robert Klassen; David Wood; Dan ShinTeaching Note IVEY-8B20D017-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20D017.Starting at €0.00