April 2012

		Coming Summer 2012 ... Coursepack Builder
		Hundreds of Translated Cases Available
		New Cases in Operations Management, Management Science & Information Systems
		Award Winning Authors
		ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition Invitation

This content management tool is designed to give our customers the flexibility to assemble custom course packs that can be downloaded instantly from the Ivey Publishing website. More information to follow soon!

With over 200 Ivey cases translated into Chinese this year alone, you will find hundreds already available in the Ivey case collection with more translations to follow in the months ahead.

With a commitment to providing high quality cases for use in China, our growing collection provides students with comprehensive cases that reflect the changing business landscape in China. For a list of cases translated into Simplified Chinese, please click here.  Click here to view the list of cases translated into Traditional Chinese.

The newest cases from the Ivey case collection are available for review. View New Cases for more details on cases registered in your discipline.

DHL Supply Chain

The degradation of the environment has led many governments and customers to pressurize businesses to make their operations more nature-friendly. The case illustrates an effective example of corporate social responsibility. Specifically, it demonstrates how a small increase in a supply chain budget can drastically reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emission in the transportation of LCD TVs from their manufacturing bases to a distribution centre. The case highlights optimization concepts within the contemporary objective of minimizing carbon dioxide emission. Students get to design (or complete) a medium-sized optimization template using the SOLVER tool. The difficulty level should be within the capabilities of undergraduates and MBA students enrolled in analytics courses.

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MGT Group: Reconstructing the Supply Chain After a Cross-Border Factory Relocation (Simplified Chinese version)

Established in 1945, MGT Group (MGT, or the Group) was headquartered in France. Its LSD factory was a well-known global engineering provider specializing in the design and manufacture of high-precision valves. At the end of 2007, MGT decided to transfer the LSD factory in France to its Fuzhou factory in China. Several challenges ranging from the need for strategic planning to the need for an implementation policy for supply chain reconstruction during this cross-border factory relocation lay ahead. 

As a result of globalization, multinationals are able to extend their influence to every corner of the world. Whether for the purpose of cost control or new market development, many global companies have come to regard transferring mature product lines, even the whole factory, to another country as a vital step in achieving their internationalization strategy. China, as a large country for both production and consumption, has become a destination of factory transfers for many well-known multinational companies. During the transfer process, the supply chain typically undergoes a drastic change, for both the former and new owners. Constructing a new supply chain in the context of economic globalization has become a common challenge, revealing many operational and management issues in the manufacturing industry and beyond in China.

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Unimicron Technology Corporation (Traditional Chinese version)

The president of Unimicron must evaluate the degree to which the company's information systems support its business strategy. The case provides an extensive review of the company's history, its strategy and its key competitive and organizational moves. The case reviews the way in which information systems are used in the company, and challenges students to assess the degree of fit between strategy, organization and technology. The aim of the case is to show how tight synergy among strategic choices, organizational structuring and people management, and the development of IT systems can lead to high performance.  The case demonstrates that IT decisions are business decisions, not just technical decisions that can be left to the IT specialists.

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Authors of Learning with Cases, Teaching with Cases and Writing Cases won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award presented by the European Case Clearing House during the 2012 annual case award ceremony. These books are also available in Chinese.

Carol Stephenson, Dean of the Richard Ivey School said, “The award of Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method gives worthy recognition to three remarkable individuals who have dedicated so much of their lives to teaching people worldwide how to get the most out of cases. Jim, Mike and Louise have conducted more than 400 case writing and case teaching workshops for thousands of participants in more than 50 countries over the past 40 years. Their work is at the heart of the great case tradition we have developed at Ivey and the school is delighted at this recognition.” Congratulations on their achievement!

In addition, the case entitled Louis Vuitton in Japan, authored by Justin Paul, won an award in the Entrepreneurship case category.

In partnership with the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Ivey would like to invite you to participate in the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition 2012.

The objective of this competition is to help build a repository of high-quality, internationally benchmarked cases about Indian businesses. The cases should be original business case studies suitable for use in MBA classrooms across the world and should aim to showcase the unique challenges and issues faced by organizations and business leaders in India. Submissions must also include teaching notes in English.

Winning cases will be published in the Ivey-ISB co-branded case collection available through Ivey Publishing. First place winners will also receive a cash prize of US $4000. Second prize winners take home US $3000 and there are special category prizes of US $2000 per category. A panel of internationally acclaimed subject experts judge each case in a double-blind review process and will provide written feedback on each case.

Download the intent to participate form and email it to Ivey India. Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 30 for international participants.