Ivey Business School (Canada)
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GetYourGuide: Managing a Sudden Shock to Business Growth
Sabrina Goestl; Vanessa C. HasseCase IVEY-W32660-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn March 2020, the German online travel experience platform GetYourGuide faced an abrupt drop in revenues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the drop, the company had been thriving, grown from a simple idea thought up by a group of friends in a student dormitory into a market-leading company in the travel experience industry with a valuation of over US$1 billion (a “unicorn” start-up) and more than 600 employees across fifteen global ...Starting at €8.20
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CompuSoluciones: Corporate Governance
Luis Manuel Bonner de la Mora; W. Glenn Rowe; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17M022-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyCompuSoluciones, based in Guadalajara, Mexico, was a value-added distributor of information technology hardware, software, and services that grew from its origins as a reseller for Hewlett-Packard to become the second-largest distributor in Mexico. The company was best described as a collection of team-based businesses. It had 18 independent business units—each of which managed its own supply chain and produced its own profit-and-loss statements—...Starting at €8.20
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CompuSoluciones: Competing Against Disintermediation
Luis Manuel Bonner de la Mora; W. Glenn Rowe; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17M023-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyCompuSoluciones was a value-added distributor of information technology hardware, software, and services based in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2016, the firm’s chief executive officer was aware that the company faced the threat of disintermediation as some of its vendors looked to sell directly to end-users. The industry in which CompuSoluciones competed was known for its rapid technological changes, which affected the design, supply, and price of pro...Starting at €8.20