The president of a waste management and recycling company is considering expanding to another location within London, Ontario. Students are asked to assess the company's past performance to determine what had made it successful and then project financial results for the expansion along with projecting the company's fiscal year's overall financial results. Students are required to establish a strong promotion plan for the new facility, .....more

By the late 1990s, video gaming had become part of the commercial mainstream, with annual revenues that exceeded those of the motion picture industry. In the past three decades, video gaming companies expanded their reach by offering violent adult-oriented games for men, social and fitness games for women, educational games for young children, and most recently, mental acuity games for senior citizens. In 2006, the market for gaming software continued .....more

The Zhejiang Tengen Group (Tengen) has grown into one of the largest private enterprises in China. However, the company has faced many challenges along the way. The demand for low-voltage electronics was so high that it was difficult to meet. As more and more suppliers joined the market, quality problems emerged. Despite this problem, Tengen managed to maintain a reputation for supplying high quality electronics. Using this reputation, Tengen outsourced .....more

The liquid crystal display (LCD) group at Samsung Electronics is faced with a new product development challenge - should you go with a product that is well received in the market but the leadership is with the competition or with a product for which the market is yet to be tested but with some remote potential to leapfrog the competition. This is a supplement to Samsung Electronics and LCD Technology (A), product 9B04M046 and presents the status as .....more

The liquid crystal display (LCD) group at Samsung Electronics is faced with a new product development challenge - should you go with a product that is well received in the market but the leadership is with the competition or with a product for which the market is yet to be tested but with some remote potential to leapfrog the competition. This is a supplement to Samsung Electronics and the LCD Technology (A) and (B), products 9B04M046 and 9B04M047, .....more

The case discusses the development of Pakistan's economy and the government's decision to privatize many of its government-owned enterprises and focuses on the privatization debate concerning Pakistan's power sector. Illustrated are the many issues and questions concerning government ownership and privatization, the rationales for government ownership as well as justifications for privatization.

Victoria is a family owned and managed firm which has been led by an ambitious, entrepreneurial CEO who now wants to take a less active role in the business. Victoria has been through two reorganizations in recent years, and the case focuses on the organizational and strategic issues which will need to be addressed by a new president.

Cascadia Water Corporation processes wastewater and converts it into cleaned "reclaimed" water that is sold to customers for use in irrigation, car washing, and specific industrial purposes. With more communities becoming concerned with the demand of fresh clean water and the strains this demand puts on the quality of their water, Cascadia would be a serious option. The founder of the company must develop a creative business model that would .....more

This is a supplement to Kobe Steel USA, Electronic Materials Center: The Commercialization of New Technologies (A), product 9B04M017 and focuses on a consulting assignment. A consultant working with the Center decides to request reconsideration of the terms and deliverables of his assignment.

The vice-president of international operations must decide whether to continue to operate or abandon the company's Nigerian joint venture. Although the expatriate general manager of the Nigerian operation has delivered a very pessimistic report, Larson's own hunch was to stay in that country. Maintaining the operation was complicated by problems in staffing, complying with a promise to increase the share of local ownership, a joint venture .....more