Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship: Business Incubation in the Danish Context
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Demetra DimokopoulosCase IVEY-9B17M116-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2015, the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), the largest business incubator in Denmark, was admitting 100–125 new start-ups each year and attracting external funding of US$33 million from both public and private sources—all with an annual budget of US$435,000, funded exclusively by the Copenhagen Business School. Like most business incubators, CSE worked to provide entrepreneurs with training, mentorship, and investors, and to enhanc...Starting at €8.20
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Tokyo Jane
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Simon SchaferCase IVEY-9B14M085-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTokyo Jane is an accessible fashion jewelry company that makes and markets its products as “luxury for less” by designing, importing and selling fashion jewelry pieces that look luxurious but cost only a fraction of the high-priced items that inspired them. Finished products are air-shipped to company headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark from factories in China, stocked in the head office and delivered to 400 retail partners —small fashion boutiqu...Starting at €8.20
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Better World Fashion: Circular Economy and Competitive Advantage
Reimer Ivang; Mohammad Bakhtiar RanaCase IVEY-9B19A021-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn 2015, in Aalborg, Denmark, the two co-founders of Better World Fashion formed their company as a social enterprise, aiming to highlight all that was wrong with the fashion industry and offer a cleaner and more ethical solution. The business was designed to focus not only on profit but also on minimizing the environmental impact of the supply chain. The founders chose to specialize in garments made from re-purposed leather, as leather had a lon...Starting at €8.20
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A. P. Moller-Maersk: Enabling Strategic Business Transformation
Robert D. Austin; Dana MinbaevaCase IVEY-W27857-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyA.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSK), an integrated container logistics company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been on a decade long strategic transformation journey that was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. MAERSK’s ambitious strategic business transformation converted the organization from an unwieldy family-owned conglomerate to an integrated container and logistics company. This massive shift required new organizational capabilities, new leade...Starting at €8.20