Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Mint Tax: Identifying Capabilities for Developing a Strategy Perspective
Renate Kratochvil; Christina SchweigerCase IVEY-9B20C002-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyMint Tax was founded in Vienna in 1960. By 2019, the company had approximately 80 employees and a broad client base in the areas of taxation, accounting, and payroll services. Over the previous decade, the company had experienced many successes and failures, including mergers, acquisitions, separations, firm structure changes, and financial losses. However, it had always managed to recover. Mint Tax was considering an expansion of its digital pro...Starting at €8.20
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Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B16M045-EStrategyAt the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather than quarters. However, the monastery’s business director needed to make a decision in a much shorter timeframe. The monastery employed approximately 600 people in its forestry, wine-growing, energy, real estate, services, and industrial businesses. Its largest subsidiary, an industrial manufactur...Starting at €8.20
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Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont (Spanish version)
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B16MS045StrategyAt the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather than quarters. However, the monastery’s business director needed to make a decision in a much shorter timeframe. The monastery employed approximately 600 people in its forestry, wine-growing, energy, real estate, services, and industrial businesses. Its largest subsidiary, an industrial manufactur...Starting at €8.20
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Voestalpine AG (A)
Murray J. Bryant; Werner Auer-Rizzi; Iris Fischlmayr; Caecilia Innreiter; Brett Matthews; Michael EyettCase IVEY-9B07M032-EStrategyVoestalpine AG, a public company located in Linz, Austria, was examining opportunities for growth. The company considers that to meet the needs of its customers, notably automobile, rail and construction, it has to grow. Further, the steel industry in Europe is in a process of consolidation. The company has a very strong balance sheet but due to its ownership structure (35 per cent is owned by the Austrian government), its market value is conside...Starting at €8.20
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Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation: Pengassan
Oana Branzei; David WheelerCase IVEY-9B08M075D-EStrategyThe goal of the Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation is to illustrate the challenges in anticipating points of common interest, and the difficulties of overcoming initial antagonistic conditions in order to work together to develop better positions. The simulation illustrates the tensions, trade-offs, and challenges involved in mapping and addressing competing stakeholder demands in a long-standing conflict where players' positions...Starting at €8.20
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Voestalpine AG (B)
Murray J. Bryant; Werner Auer-Rizzi; Sabine Reisinger; Harald Stummer; Robert Bauer; Michael Eyett; Brett MatthewsCase IVEY-9B07M033-EStrategyThis supplement to Voestalpine AG (A), product 9b07M032, examines the decision to expand vertically instead of horizontally, but looking at a stamping plant and plastics firm (to get closer to its automotive customers) and a design firm. More importantly, the case examines the tools and methodologies employed by the company to assess fit in terms of costs and competencies and customers and competition.Starting at €5.74
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Phil Chan (A)
Paul W. Beamish; Jean-Louis SchaanCase IVEY-9B08M038-EStrategyThe case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission. In the case, a Hong Kong-based manager who is travelling to Nigeria is unaware that he is walking into a situation where his company is about to be cheated. The objective of the case is to raise the issue of ...Starting at €8.20
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MitiMeth: A Nigerian Social Enterprise Goes Global
Makarand GulawaniCase IVEY-W26019-EMarketing, StrategyIn January 2022, MitiMeth was a Nigeria-based innovative social enterprise that produces handcrafted products made from natural fibres—agricultural waste and aquatic weeds—that are otherwise considered to be waste or a hazard to the environment. MitiMeth added value to this material by transforming it into well-designed furniture and home furnishings, storage boxes, lamps, kitchen and dinner ware, stationery, and souvenir items. Mitimeth’s initia...Starting at €8.20
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Organic Growth at Sonnentor
Dietmar SternadCase IVEY-9B15M031-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe entrepreneur and founder of Sonnentor, an organic food production company, has grown his business by focusing on unusual strategic and operative choices. Sonnentor emphasizes socially and environmentally responsible behaviour in all its actions and has built its business on fair partnerships with employees, suppliers and other partners. The case highlights the role of “embedded sustainability” in the success of the business and presents the c...Starting at €8.20
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Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation: The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)
Oana Branzei; David WheelerCase IVEY-9B08M075B-EStrategyThe goal of the Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation is to illustrate the challenges in anticipating points of common interest, and the difficulties of overcoming initial antagonistic conditions in order to work together to develop better positions. The simulation illustrates the tensions, trade-offs, and challenges involved in mapping and addressing competing stakeholder demands in a long-standing conflict where players' positions...Starting at €8.20