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The Children's Place, Inc.: Challenges in a Post-Rana Plaza World
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-9B15M062-EStrategyThe Children’s Place was a New Jersey-based specialty retailer of apparel and accessories for children up to age 12. Starting in fiscal 2013, the company was moving from a clearance-centre model, where it sold a variety of national brands, to a made-for-outlet model that emphasized its own brands. This was necessitated by intense price competition in its market. The new strategy involved developing, coordinating and controlling its own global app...Starting at €8.20
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SodaStream Takes on Coke and Pepsi
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-9B14M038-EMarketing, StrategySodaStream International Limited is an Israel-based company that pioneered the home carbonation market. It sells soda makers that enable the consumer to prepare at home sparkling water or a variety of flavoured carbonated beverages. After its initial public offering in 2010, its chief executive officer sought to aggressively grow the company and set a $1 billion revenue target (from 2012 revenues of $436.32 million) by principally focusing on the...Starting at €8.20
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Nestlé and L’Oréal: The “Elephant in the Room”
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-9B19M125-EStrategyIn 2018, Nestlé, the Switzerland-based, multinational food and nutrition company, faced an activist campaign by Third Point LLC regarding the company's passive stake in L'Oréal. In its June 2017 letter, which was followed up by a July 2018 reminder, the aStarting at €8.20
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MoviePass: Disruption Through Subscription
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-9B19M108-EStrategyIn August 2018, MoviePass, a New York City–based movie ticket subscription service, faced an acute cash crisis that threatened its ability to continue in business. The company had disrupted the movie exhibition industry by offering movie tickets at a discStarting at €8.20
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MoviePass: Disruption Through Subscription - Teaching Note
Ram SubramanianTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M108-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M108.Starting at €0.00
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eBay Inc.: The Portfolio Decision - Teaching Note
Ram SubramanianTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M113-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M113.Starting at €0.00
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Corporate Governance at Toshiba Corporation
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-W27247-EStrategyIn early June 2021, an independent investigation team released its report into the way Japan-based Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) had conducted its 2020 annual shareholder meeting, finding that the company had mishandled the annual general meeting with respect to shareholder rights. As a result, Toshiba had to deal with the immediate problem of putting up a new slate of nominee board directors to be put to a vote at the next annual shareholder mee...Starting at €8.20
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Tony’s Chocolonely: Taking On “Big Cocoa” and West African Child Slavery in the Supply Chain
Ram SubramanianCase IVEY-W27672-EMarketing, StrategyOn February 16, 2021, Slave Free Chocolate removed Tony’s Chocolonely (Tony’s), a chocolate company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from its “Ethical Chocolate Companies” list due to Tony’s association with Barry Callebaut, a cocoa processor associated with child slavery in West Africa. Tony’s, a B Corp-certified company whose founding mission was to eradicate child slavery from the cocoa supply chain, had to address its public removal from ...Starting at €8.20
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Asian Paints Limited: Corporate Governance Blues - Teaching Note
Ram SubramanianTeaching Note IVEY-W27943-EKnowledge and CommunicationTeaching note for product W27942.Starting at €0.00