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Merging Esso Iceland and Bilanaust (A)
Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C015-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2006, Hermann Gudmundsson (the chief executive officer [CEO] of Bilanaust, an Icelandic automotive spare parts retailer) was part of a group of partners that had purchased Esso Iceland. He had subsequently been appointed to the CEO position at Esso Iceland. The two companies were quite different: Bilanaust dealt with real-time customer needs, carried a wide range of products, and enjoyed a rising market share and profits. Esso Iceland was 12 t...Starting at €8.20
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Royal FloraHolland: The Dutch Floriculture Supply Chain
P. Fraser Johnson; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16D015-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn January 2016, the program director of Royal FloraHolland and a supply chain consultant met to develop a supply chain strategy that would allow Royal FloraHolland to adapt to the changing competitive environment that jeopardized its business model. Royal FloraHolland was the largest floriculture auction organization in the world, selling more than 30 million flowers and plants daily. Located in the Netherlands, Royal FloraHolland was a co-opera...Starting at €8.20
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Merging Esso Iceland and Bilanaust (C)
Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C018-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyBy December 2006, Hermann Gudmundsson (the chief executive officer of both Esso Iceland and Bilanaust) had spent the past 10 months evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of both organizations, and determined that the best approach going forward would be to, "consider creating a new organization with a new structure and a new brand name." He weighed the advantages, disadvantages and costs of either retaining two separate companies and their asso...Starting at €5.74
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Socially Responsible Investment Funds in France: Regulations and Retail (B)
Diane-Laure Arjalies; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16N017-EFinance, StrategySupplement for product 9B16N016.Starting at €5.74
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Danone: Adopting Integrated Reporting or Not (A)
Diane-Laure Arjalies; Michelle Rodrigue; Delphine Gibassier; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B18B017-EAccounting and Control, StrategyDanone SA (Danone), a multinational food company based in Paris, had a history of social and environmental consciousness and a corporate strategy that focused on economic and social objectives. In 2013, the company was trying to ensure that this social anStarting at €8.20
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New Ways to Answer Old Questions: Conjoint Analysis Takes the Guesswork Out of Pharmaceutical Marketing Decisions
Green, Paul; Joachimsthaler, Erich A.Technical Note MN-284-EMarketingNew developments in marketing research now provide the techniques required to accurately and precisely measure consumer preferences and the trade-offs consumers make between various product attributes, and beyond that to simulate managerially meaningful outcomes such as gains/losses in market share, sales volume, and gross profit. These new developments in marketing research represent a sort of second generation methodologies and refinements of t...Starting at €8.20
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Robert Krups GMBH & Co. KG: Brand Transfer into East Germany (A)
Hickman, E.; Joachimsthaler, Erich A.Case M-926-EMarketingCase deals with the issues that make a brand strong e.g. positioning, product characteristics, advertising and product presentation strategy, etc.; measures of a brand's strength e.g. awareness, perceived quality reputation, etc. The management issue is how to transfer these brand attributes to the newly opened east european market and indeed, to decide which specific brands will actually appeal to this new set of consumers.Starting at €8.20
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BMW Mini: Big Decisions Under the Brexit Cloud
Klaus Meyer; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B19M013-EStrategyIn April 2017, BMW AG (BMW) faced a big decision regarding which plant should receive the mandate to produce the first electric version of BMW’s iconic Mini car. The leadership team of BMW’s UK operations was determined to keep the Mini at its historical home base in the United Kingdom. However, given the uncertainty arising from the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union—a move commonly known as “Brexit” —how would the team be abl...Starting at €8.20
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Doing Business in Sierra Leone: Graeme Hossie at London Mining (A)
Brian C. Pinkham; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16M228-EStrategyIn 2008, Graeme Hossie, co-founder and chief executive officer of London Mining, an iron-ore mining firm, was preparing to assist the London Mining team in its negotiations for a project in Sierra Leone. Hossie was to meet with representatives from the government of Sierra Leone, a local city mayor, and landowners to acquire a property that included an old iron-ore mine. The mine was a potentially high-grade iron-ore mine that would be lucrative ...Starting at €8.20
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The Access to Medicine Index (A): Engaging Stakeholders and Attracting Funding
Afshin Mehrpouya; Diane-Laure Arjalies; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17M010-EStrategyThe founder of the Access to Medicine Foundation, based in the Netherlands, had a goal to research and publish a biannual, global survey of pharmaceutical companies and their rankings, in terms of their effects in providing needed medicines to people in developing countries. When the first two iterations of the Access to Medicine Index (ATMI) were published in 2008 and 2010 (see case A), the most prominent challenges were engaging stakeholders—go...Starting at €8.20