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For the Love of Laundry: Comparing Organizational Forms to Scale a Social Enterprise
Kent Walker; Ian Stecher; Francine Schlosser; Megain O'Neil-RenaudCase IVEY-9B18M008-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe London, Ontario, social enterprise For the Love of Laundry was founded in 2014 with the intention of selling homemade, eco-friendly soaps and using the profits to fund free laundry events in the community. In 2017, the founder's goal was to increase the scale of the business and its social impact. She needed to decide how to structure the organization to increase its scale while maintaining control of its strategic direction. The founder comp...Starting at €8.20
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The Detroit River International Crossing Bridge
Kent Walker; Saeed RahmanCase IVEY-9B13M114-EStrategyThis case discusses the only privately owned bridge between Canada and the United States and the possible construction of a second competing and publicly owned bridge. With an upcoming crucial vote on the fate of the public bridge, a Michigan student must decide how to vote and whether she believes that a central public infrastructure should be privately held. She contemplates a deeper issue as well – the fundamental principle of capitalism, a sy...Starting at €8.20
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Rivest Farms: Farming Approaches and the Four Ps
Kent Walker; Ryan DonallyCase IVEY-9B16M011-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHaving previously raised pigs on his farm with unsuccessful results, a Canadian farmer has always dreamed of reintroducing pigs to his cash crop farm. The decision is particularly difficult, as he must consider not only the financial viability of his options, but also the environmental costs, benefits, and the welfare of the animals and workers — collectively referred to as the Four Ps (profits, planet, people, and pigs). Although the market for ...Starting at €8.20
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Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal
Anteby, Michel; Nohria, NitinCase HBS-408001-ELeadership and People ManagementMichael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development function to falter. He struggles to know how to handle these conflicts and bring the three into a productive working collaboration. Fernandes is in charge of incorporating NPIL's new ...Starting at €8.20
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Malden Mills (A) (Abridged)
Nohria, Nitin; Piper, Thomas R.Case HBS-410083-ELeadership and People ManagementCEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to lend Feuerstein additional funds to enable him to regain control of the company after emerging from bankruptcy.Starting at €8.20
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Biblio Credit Union: Social Inequality and the Living Wage
Kent Walker; Curtis LabutteCase IVEY-9B17M020-EStrategyIn 2016, the community engagement manager at Biblio Credit Union, a financial institution in Ontario, Canada, was concerned about rising social inequality. The company was respected in the community for its high business ethics and careful attention to corporate social responsibility. Although most of the company’s employees were paid well, some employees received little more than the minimum wage. The community engagement manager wondered how to...Starting at €8.20
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Detroit Bikes: Becoming the Biggest Bicycle Manufacturer in North America
Kent Walker; Neda DemiriCase IVEY-9B17A012-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn 2016, Detroit Bikes was a relatively new company seeking to become the largest bicycle manufacturer in North America. The U.S. bicycle market was dominated by imports from China and Taiwan, and Detroit Bikes saw an opportunity to compete by producing bicycles in the United States. The numerous business opportunities arising from Detroit’s economic downfall and recent resurgence provided an ideal location for the new bicycle company. The founde...Starting at €8.20
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Aparigraha Yoga: Balancing the Tensions of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Kent Walker; Ian StecherCase IVEY-9B19M021-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAparigraha Yoga was founded in 2012 as a sustainable entrepreneurship venture in Ontario that sought to balance the environmental, social, and financial components of the triple bottom line (3BL) while providing high-quality yoga classes in its community. The founder intended to utilize synergistic solutions, which fully integrated each 3BL component, to address any business problem. In 2018, she identified two issues at her studio that challenge...Starting at €8.20
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Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; Nohria, Nitin; Bell, DeborahCase HBS-411S22Leadership and People ManagementBarbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern Massachusetts University Hospital (EMU). She has inherited a unit with the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest employee turnover rate among all of the departments at EMU. Furthermore, her new unit was infamous for its culture of confrontation, blaming and favoritism. The staff that has rema...Starting at €8.20
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Connective Mobility
Nohria, Nitin; Payton, Christopher; Huberlie, AliCase HBS-816051-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20