Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Midea Group China: The Acquisition of German Robotics
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Ines Sanso CodinaCase IVEY-9B19M070-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2017, the Midea Group Co. Ltd. (Midea), a China-based large manufacturer of electrical appliances, completed its acquisition of German-based KUKA AG (KUKA), a large manufacturer of industrial robots. To ease concerns about technologies fallingStarting at €8.20
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VaycayNation: Driving Website Traffic through Second-Screen Analytics
Maik Eisenbeiss; Alexander BleierCase IVEY-9B20A027-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyVaycayNation was a German start-up operating an online travel and booking portal. Despite its recent growth, the firm still had low brand awareness in the German market. As a remedy, the chief executive officer planned to invest in a major television advertising campaign to attract more visitors to the company’s website and thus improve its customer awareness. He wanted to build the campaign based on a solid understanding of how executional campa...Starting at €8.20
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SÄBU Holzbau GmbH: From a Leadership Crisis to Qualitative Growth (A)
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B19C011-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyCase A describes a leadership crisis affecting the managing director of the German construction company SÄBU Holzbau GmbH. In 2013, severe organizational problems, such as deficiencies in internal communication, indecisiveness, and a lack of clarity in the distribution of tasks and responsibilities, led to frustrations for both customers and employees. The crisis culminated with three key employees leaving the company because they were no longer ...Starting at €8.20
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Donatus Pharmacy: Personnel Scheduling with Employee Preferences
Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer; Olaf PohlCase IVEY-9B18D022-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn March 2017, a pharmacy in Berlin encountered a personnel scheduling problem. The pharmacy’s key activity was serving customers in-store with ready-made medication. These services had to be offered during regular opening hours, on occasional Sundays, anStarting at €8.20
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Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (A)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B08M064-EStrategyDr. Reddy's Laboratories (Dr. Reddy's), a large pharmaceutical company in India, is trying to acquire the fourth largest generics manufacturer in Germany. Dr. Reddy's quoted $570 million in a competitive bidding situation. The company's chief negotiator is getting ready to close the deal if selected. Students will examine the issues for the chief negotiator, such as: is the price right, is the fit strategic, will the acquisition add value, how ca...Starting at €8.20
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Star Alliance in 2020
Benjamin Gomes-Casseres; Jacob JuddCase IVEY-9B21M010-EStrategyFormed in 1997, Star Alliance was the first global airline network or constellation. Its aim was to shift the airline industry away from a network of loose bilateral agreements between individual airlines to a more comprehensive network of multilateral agStarting at €8.20
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World Health Organization: Facilitating COVID-19 Vaccines for the World
Klaus Meyer; Michelle (Chau Minh) DoanCase IVEY-9B21M014-EStrategyOn May 29, 2020, the World Health Organization launched the COVID-19 Technologies Access Pool (C-TAP) with the aim of making pandemic-related technologies—specifically, vaccines and treatments—available to its participants. Although the initiative was positively received in many developing countries, it was not well received by pharmaceutical companies, who viewed C-TAP as a threat to the patent system and, therefore, as a threat to the companies...Starting at €8.20
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Rio Tinto and Ömnogovi: A Community Cooperation Agreement
Byambajav Dalaibuyan; Sarah Lord Ferguson; Eric WerkerCase IVEY-9B20M005-EStrategyThis case examines the business decisions around managing the community impact of a mining development in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia at Oyu Tolgoi—one of the larger copper and gold deposits in the world, and a flagship project of Rio Tinto. In 2009, a mining development agreement was reached with the Government of Mongolia on the national level, but negotiations were just ramping up at the local level. New legislation mandated the creatio...Starting at €8.20
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Nord Stream 2: A Choice Between Control or Operating
Harvinder SinghCase IVEY-W27971-EStrategyNord Stream 2 was an offshore pipeline project of the Russian energy company Gazprom to transport natural gas to Europe. The US government was skeptical about this project as it believed that Russia would use the pipeline to increase its influence in Europe. The Russian annexation of Crimea and reported Russian support to the secessionist groups in Eastern Ukraine further complicated the situation. The events in Ukraine resulted in the United Sta...Starting at €8.20
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Freeletics: Strategic Corporate Venturing in a Digital Scale-Up
Lysander Weiss; Dominik K. KanbachCase IVEY-W29912-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyGoing through a dynamic market change with increased user growth and competition, the digital fitness scale-up Freeletics GmbH (Freeletics) found itself at a crossroads in September 2020. Equipped with fresh funding of US$25 million, the chief executive officer and the business development lead discussed the path forward for the company. Its current successful offering, a digital fitness coaching app, promised continuous growth. However, changing...Starting at €8.20