Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Project Have Hope: Managing Growth, Commitment, Time, Inventory, and Other Challenges
Nardia Haigh; Jamila Gilliam; Frank SmithCase IVEY-9B20M011-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBoston-based Project Have Hope was a non-profit social enterprise promoting financial stability for 100 women in Kampala, Uganda, who had been displaced as a result of Uganda’s civil war. Established in 2006, Project Have Hope used revenue from the sale of paper bead jewellery and other products made by the women to provide training, loans, and children’s tuition. The project faced many challenges over the years, including an unplanned expansion ...Starting at €8.20
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ATB: Digital Disruption in the Parking Meter Industry
Matthias Baumann; Stephan StubnerCase IVEY-9B16M165-EStrategyIn 2015, Automaten Technik Baumann (ATB) was dismayed to learn that Volkswagen Financial Services had acquired a 92 per cent stake in Sunhill Technologies, one of Europe’s largest providers of mobile parking and ticketing solutions. ATB had focused on the production of parking meters for several decades, but was now seeing a threat to its existing business due to the rise of mobile parking providers. Consumers could now use their smartphone to pa...Starting at €8.20