The Asian miracle turned into a nightmare in 1997. Thailand brought the region into freefall when the baht split from the US dollar in July. This brought down other Asian currencies as speculators took advantage of the opportunities to win. Hong Kong was not immune to regional troubles. The first attack on the Hong Kong …
It includes a series of three negotiation exercises that describe the relationships between management and ABC employees over a seven-year period. ABC, originally a family business, prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its Local 190 union. With inflation exploding in the 1970s, the administration considered drastic changes. Management and workers would go through a …
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This highly interesting strategy-making exercise allows participants to develop their creativity through the systematic five-step process of the Blue Ocean Shift. We reverse the learning process of the case method by combining it with a group exercise. Participants will first formulate their own go-to-market strategy by actively applying the Blue Ocean Shift concept, framework and …
May 2016, Singapore. Umesh Shah, Director of Unilever International (UI), was delighted with what his team has been able to accomplish since the division’s establishment in early 2012 by merging the export units of the operating companies with the goal of creating “spaces in White”. . H. Business opportunities created by new global and fringe …
Ina Food Industry Co. Ltd. (“Ina Food”) is located in Ina City, Nagano Prefecture, and is surrounded by the high mountains of the Japanese Alps. Hiroshi Tsukakoshi, Ina Food’s 75-year-old president, has led the company through 55 incredible years of continued sales and profit growth. The company is a leading manufacturer of agar powder, a …
Alexandre Tombini, the governor of the Brazilian central bank, found himself in a difficult situation in July 2015. Inflation was in the double digits, well above the target rate of 4.5%, and unemployment fell from around 4, 5% last year to almost 8. risen%. Any measure Tombini takes to control inflation would likely exacerbate unemployment, …
In April 2012, Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, invested $ 2 billion in Brazilian conglomerate EBX, believing that the company was undervalued by public markets. However, shortly after, EBX and its many businesses began a downward spiral. Hani Barhoush and Oscar Fahlgren, members of Mubadala’s investment team, have now been appointed to lead the …
This case focuses on the economic outlook for the Chinese city of Chongqing since 2007, the year the local economy began a decade-long surge even though China’s economic growth had slowed, particularly since the global financial crisis in China. 2008. The case examines the actions of the Chongqing government to promote economic growth and the …
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