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Wooden Bakery: Should It Enter the U.S. Market
Hagop Panossian; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B16M128-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA leading family-owned Lebanese bakery-convenience store chain, Wooden Bakery, was in the process of deciding the company’s next options for growth in Lebanon and in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The owner was pondering the use of aggressive growth strategies such as franchising and area-development franchising. Additionally, the founder of the company and its board members were facing the biggest decision in the company’s history as th...Starting at €8.20
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BLC Bank and the Quest for Women's Empowerment in MENA
Farah Matar; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B15M106-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2010, the assistant general manager and head of strategic development at Lebanon’s BLC Bank attended the annual summit of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, a leading organization of financial institutions that drove the creation of women’s wealth worldwide. On her return to Beirut, she encouraged her bank to capitalize on the inclusion of women as a relevant differentiator from both a business and societal perspective. The result of resea...Starting at €8.20
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SMARTBITES (A)
Roberts, Michael J.; Silva, Jeronimo; Bhide, Amar V.Case HBS-813074-EEntrepreneurshipThe case describes a Turkish brother-sister team who are evaluating the option of acquiring and operating a franchise of a U.S. bakery/cafe in Turkey. They are comparing this option to that of simply starting a similar business.Starting at €8.20
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SMARTBITES C: June 2009
Roberts, Michael J.; Bhide, Amar V.Case HBS-813111-EEntrepreneurshipSupplement for case 813074Starting at €8.20
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Partnership for Lebanon and Cisco Systems: Promoting Development in a Post-war Context
Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B11M050-EStrategyThe project manager of the Partnership for Lebanon (PFL) and Cisco Systems’s regional director of corporate affairs for the Middle East and Africa met in September 2009, three years after the PFL was first initiated. The meeting primarily revolved around the challenge of sustainability and what useful suggestions they could put forward to their partners to ensure that the projects initiated through the PFL were not dependent on the continuous inv...Starting at €8.20
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SMARTBITES B: May 2009
Roberts, Michael J.; Bhide, Amar V.Case HBS-813110-EEntrepreneurshipSupplement for case 813074Starting at €8.20
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SMARTBITES D: February 2010
Roberts, Michael J.; Bhide, Amar V.Case HBS-813112-EEntrepreneurshipSupplement for case 813074Starting at €8.20
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Shankaboot: Extending the Web Series from Lebanon to Other Arab Countries
Lina Daouk-Oyry; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B13M106-EStrategyShankaboot, the world’s first Arabic-language web series, was created in Lebanon as a social development project carrying forward the following message: “to defy traditions and explore taboos. The overarching vision was to use the web to create a forum for raising awareness, sharing alternative viewpoints and generating constructive discussions about the social issues that were often experienced by Arab youth, but which no one dared to speak up a...Starting at €8.20
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Bank Audi: Leading through Sustainability
Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B16M168-EStrategyBank Audi, a leading financial institution, was founded in Lebanon in 1830 and, over the years, had been engaged in various forms of philanthropic, charitable giving embodying its responsibility towards its various stakeholders. The head of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) unit faced a prominent decision. How could the bank consolidate its CSR efforts—which had taken a largely philanthropic approach, especially between 2010 and 2012—in t...Starting at €8.20
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Souk El Tayeb: The Good Food Market in Lebanon
Dima Jamali; Haitham KhouryCase IVEY-9B11M111-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategySouk el Tayeb, Lebanon’s first weekly farmers’ market, and Tawlet, a farmers’ restaurant — the former adopting the legal structure of an NGO and the latter being an income-generating company — were joined by one vision to “celebrate food and traditions that unite communities and support small-scale farmers and producers and a culture of sustainable agriculture.” Souk el Tayeb’s founder, Kamal Mouzawak, first launched Souk el Tayeb in May 2004 in ...Starting at €8.20