Wil-Mor Technologies is a joint venture between a U.S. firm, Wilson Industries, and a Japanese firm, Morota Manufacturing. The CEO of Wilson is concerned about the performance of the joint venture and wants the joint venture president, to make some changes. The president is unsure of what action to take because the Japanese partner, Morota, is satisfied with the joint venture performance and is considering expansion plans. This is an excellent case .....more

Accuride Canada Inc. is a large manufacturer of truck rims. A senior manager considers a proposal to begin installing valve stems on wheels produced at the plant. In addition to the proposal's financial viability, there are several qualitative issues to consider carefully before making a decision. He must present his recommendations to the other members of the senior management team within a few hours.

As part of a corporate restructuring plan, the head of salaried personnel at American Car must reduce salaried personnel by 560 people. She is force to use age and seniority as the only two criteria for employee reductions. This supplement to American Car: Salaried Headcount Reduction, product 9B02C053, allows class discussion around appropriate employee evaluation methods.

Riverside Packaging is a family-owned company that specializes in packaging, painting and warehousing and distribution of vehicle parts. The company's controller is concerned with the profitability of a proposed emergency-assist contract to package, warehouse and distribute fascias with General Motors. The proposal must be evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively before rendering a decision.

The plant manager at Ford Motor Company's St. Thomas Assembly Plant must decide whether to recommend replacement of the plant's aging Bayco Oven cleaning system. The case presents a simple capital budgeting exercise.

The financial director responsible for the Eastern European division of the European car manufacturer Roda, had to determine how best to finance the company's relatively young Polish operations. Roda manufactured and sold cars in North America, Asia and Western Europe, but its Polish subsidiary was its first in Eastern Europe. The financial director had decided to pursue an innovative financing strategy, a promissory note, proposed by CS First .....more

In June 1994, Dwight Rollins, vice-president of finance for Ventra Group Inc. (Ventra), was negotiating the acquisition of Peerless-Cascade, a private company with manufacturing facilities in Windsor, Ontario, and Russelville, Kentucky. Ventra's main activity was the design and manufacture of parts for the automotive industry in North America and Japan through metal stamping and assembly and plastic injection molding process from facilities in .....more

The environmental coordinator at the Chatham Assembly Plant of Navistar International Corporation must implement a total waste management program. This is the second in a two case series bearing the same name. At the time of the case, he had just received approval from plant management to proceed with his recommendation to use a plant-wide program that captures all recyclable materials. In addition, Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) has been selected .....more

Escorts, a large Indian conglomerate, was in the process of implementing a restructuring plan when it encountered difficulties with one of its many partners. Fiat-Agri, Escorts' joint venture partner, wanted to increase its equity stake and its extent of management control in the joint venture. However, Escorts planned to merge this venture with other divisions as part of its restructuring. This case is the third in a series of three. The first .....more

Escorts, a large Indian conglomerate, was in the process of implementing its restructuring plan. At issue is whether the company should pursue this customer-focused plan, or adopt a technology-based growth strategy. The case is the second in a series of three. The first case, "Escorts Limited, 1993", 9A95M009, documents pre- and post-liberalization conditions in India and the company's domestic strategy prior to liberalization. A third .....more