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Financing Alibaba's Buyout: Syndicated Loan in Asia
Emir HrnjićCase IVEY-9B14N011-EFinance, StrategyAlibaba is the world’s largest online trading platform, with higher revenues than Amazon and eBay combined. Its 2012 syndicated loan was the first sizable loan for a Chinese technology company with few tangible assets. Creative loan covenants stated that the subsidiaries would repatriate 100 per cent of the distributable profits for debt service. The loan was partially used for the buyback of Yahoo!’s stake in Alibaba. In the agreement, Yahoo! wo...Starting at €8.20
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Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire
Israeli, Ayelet; Tauro, Danilo; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-520087-EMarketingThis case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and video content. At its peak, one of its acquisitions had an IPO valuation of almost 1 billion dollars. However, Sizmek struggled with an integration that was taking longer than expect...Starting at €8.20
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The Alibaba Group and Online to Offline (O2O) Sales
Neil Bendle; Xin (Shane) Wang; Xiaoqian (Vivian) ChenCase IVEY-9B15A035-EMarketing, StrategyIn the fall of 2014, the Alibaba Group, an e-commerce company that operates domestic and international marketplaces and provides Internet-based services from its headquarters in Hangzhou, China, startled the world with its record-breaking initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s business plan differs from other major Internet companies such as Amazon and eBay by its strategies that are tailored to the particular circu...Starting at €8.20
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Oak Street Health
Chess, Robert; Makinen, JulieCase SGSB-E814-EEntrepreneurshipThis case describes the founding and evolution of Oak Street Health, a primary care provider operating in the “value-based” health care space, focused on Medicare patients in the United States. This case introduces students to value-based health care in the United States, in which providers assume full risk for the overall cost of patient care under a system of capitated payments, and contrasts it with traditional fee-for-service health care. Oa...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Last-Mile Productivity at Paack
Markakis, Mihalis G.; Martínez de Albéniz, VictorCase OIT-17-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementLast-mile delivery is by far the most operationally complex and costly part of logistics. Nevertheless, it has become a critical function of e-commerce in the last 20 years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multitude of actors operate in the last-mile delivery space: first-party logistics companies, such as Amazon; third-party logistics companies, such as DHL; and fourth-party logistics (4PL) companies, many of them gig economy-based,...Starting at €8.20
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Profitability of On-Demand Food Delivery Businesses
Marks, M; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-SM270-EStrategyBy 2017, pervasive mobile connectivity and the rise of the on-demand economy resulted in an explosion of businesses attempting to fulfill immediate consumer demand in the food delivery market. A broad, secular shift was occurring: Online or mobile orders were rapidly replacing the traditional method of picking up the phone to call in takeout and delivery orders. Still, concerns began to arise as market participants struggled to raise funding a...Starting at €8.20
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DropBox - Series B Financing
Strebulaev, I; Foroughi, J; GouwCase SGSB-F309-EFinanceIn mid-2011, as global markets corrected amid worldwide economic uncertainty, Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the fast-growing file synchronization and sharing company, found himself in a difficult, albeit enviable, situation. Houston, who had already raised over $7 million through two rounds of venture funding (one seed round and a Series A round) and developed a large and growing user base, began receiving significant investor int...Starting at €8.20
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The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988-2016
Wells, John R.; Ellsworth, GabrielCase HBS-716426-EStrategyIn October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company's stock price dropped 10% on the news, the largest one-day decline since 1998. In February 2016, Walmart reported that revenues for 2015 had dropped 0.7% to $482.1 billion, the first decline in Wal...Starting at €8.20
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NIKE Supply Chain in the New Digital Age
Jané, Joan; Ferrinha, PedroCase P-1199-EService and Operations ManagementIn spite of being succesful in supply chain operations thru wholale and physical retail channels, NIKE wants to redesign the logistics network strategy to achieve the expected digital revenue growth. A new program called "NIKE Digital First Supply Chain" aims to fulfil and deliver to NIKE online direct customers with products in two days across Europe. Carlos Bermejo, Senior Director of Strategic Programs at NIKE is about to develop a new decentr...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2024)
Vroom, Govert; Isaac Sastre BoquetCase SM-1761-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe year 2023 was another remarkable one for Spotify. Once more, the company reported record figures in both revenue ($13.1 billion) and users, boasting 236 million premium subscribers and 602 million total monthly active users. However, 2023 was also remarkable in another sense, as the company marked a turning point. After years focused on what Daniel Ek had referred to as "growth, growth, growth," Spotify witnessed three rounds of layoffs over...Starting at €8.20