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Haboydem: A Social Enterprise in the Holy Land
Mark S. SchwartzCase IVEY-9B20M121-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHaboydem was a second hand clothing store in Jerusalem that operated as a social enterprise by hiring and training individuals who were living with mental illness. The two store locations had successfully trained workers, and 70 per cent were able to findStarting at €8.20
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Zebra Medical Vision (Spanish version)
Greenstein, Shane; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-620S05EntrepreneurshipWhat should they do next at Zebra? Should they work on the accuracy of the already-developed algorithms, or continue to develop many new tools? If they chose to develop new products, which applications should they address? And how should they go to market?Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A) (Spanish version)
Alcacer, Juan; Herman, KerryCase HBS-716S16Service and Operations ManagementIn mid-2005, Intel is examining its options for where to locate its next assembly and test plant. On its short list of potential sites includes locations in China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each country has its own unique benefits and risks related to infrastructure, governance, education, business culture, intellectual property protection, labor markets, experience working with Western firms, and tax breaks and other incentives. Intel's Gene...Starting at €8.20
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Agoda: People Analytics and Business Culture (A)
Kenneth Goh; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17C024-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn the spring of 2016, the chief executive officer of Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. (Agoda), a subsidiary of The Priceline Group, Inc., wanted to transform the firm’s human resource practices using data analytics. The idea was not just to get more data, but to use this data to help managers gain insights to make better decisions. The three main focal areas of this exercise were recruitment, performance evaluation, and compensation. As key executives wo...Starting at €8.20
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LifeNet International's Transformation of African Healthcare via Social Franchising
Ilan Alon; Raul CarrilCase IVEY-9B14M131-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyLifeNet International was a social conversion franchise concept aiming to provide basic, quality and sustainable healthcare to poor and underserved populations in sub-Saharan Africa. The founder and president had relied on the assistance of others to help bring about his idea of affordable healthcare. In 2012, the executive director for LifeNet International’s operations in Burundi, began focussing on developing the company in Burundi. She was ex...Starting at €8.20
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Black Canyon Coffee
Brian K. BoydCase IVEY-9B11M074-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case focuses on Black Canyon Coffee, as it begins to develop its strategy for the firm’s second decade. Founded in 1993, Black Canyon had grown to become the largest chain of coffee houses in Thailand in 2003. Over its first decade, it grew from a single location to 78 retail outlets, serving a mix of hot and cold coffee beverages, as well as Asian cuisine. Thus far, the company had been profitable, and had managed the threat posed by local ...Starting at €8.20
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Biomed Co., Ltd.: Designing a New Sales Compensation Plan
Donald W. Barclay; Ponlerd ChiemchanyaCase IVEY-9B06A037-EMarketing, StrategyA recent MBA graduate was about to return to the family business, Biomed Co., Ltd. as its general manager. Biomed's parent company, Thai Drugs Co., Ltd. has just revised Biomed's market strategy, a change that created the need to align the sales compensation system to fit with the new strategy. The new general manager was charged with this responsibility. Students will work through the path from strategy to a powerful sales compensation plan that...Starting at €8.20
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Brand Israel: Marketing in Crisis
Ilan Alon; Rommey Hassman; Meredith Lohwasser; Jennifer DugoshCase IVEY-9B13A016-EMarketing, StrategyIsrael had experienced great change since its founding in 1948 to become arguably the most prosperous nation in the Middle East. With the exception of the United States and more recently China, Israel had more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any other. It spent a larger percentage of its budget on research and development than any other country in the world. Multinational companies like Intel, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Motorola, Mitsubishi, H...Starting at €8.20
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Israeli Wines in China: Reaching for New Heights
Ilan Alon; Jennifer Dugosh; Meredith LohwasserCase IVEY-9B14M006-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn 2012, Golan Heights Wines wanted to take advantage of the Chinese market. In recent years, China had demonstrated incredible growth in the wine market. Consumers’ growing interest in wine products had made wineries and vineyards like Golan Heights hungry for entry. The CEO of Golan Heights Winery had gone to China with her products in 2009. She had chosen distributorships as the mode of entry because of their expertise and experience in the Ch...Starting at €8.20
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Ministry of Finance, Japan
David M. Currie; Laurel AdamsCase IVEY-9B08M013-EStrategyIn June 1997, the Bank of Thailand must decide whether to continue or to abandon the peg of the baht to the U.S dollar. Recent economic performance in Thailand has caused speculation that the central bank will abandon the currency peg, but the bank's stated policy for many years has been that it will maintain the peg. Background about the Thai economy is presented in the core case, product 9B01M025. Other cases enable students to play roles of im...Starting at €8.20