Ivey Business School (Canada)
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WoodSynergy Inc: Integrating IT into the Supply Chain
Owen P. Hall; Andrea Scott; Mark ChunCase IVEY-9B10E013-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementWoodSynergy Inc. had become a midsize player in the fine woods supplier industry. The firm purchased stock woods from a number of producers and processed them to meet specific customer specifications. WoodSynergy had recently launched a number of IT-based supply chain management initiatives and was interested in assessing the current progress. The senior management at WoodSynergy had long felt that efficiency improvements to the firm's supply cha...Starting at €8.20
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Clover Food Lab: Sustainability as Competitive Advantage
Michael Crooke; Mark Chun; Amanda KastelicCase IVEY-9B16M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBy July 2012, the founder of Clover Food Lab (Clover) had created a profitable business that served locally sourced, organic, vegetarian fast food. Over the course of four years, Clover had grown from one food truck parked on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge to five food trucks and two brick-and-mortar restaurants in the metropolitan Boston area. With loyal customers advocating for the brand, the CEO knew that h...Starting at €8.20
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Harley-Davidson: Internationalization in the Trump Era
Seok Woo Kwon; Bertrand GuillotinCase IVEY-9B18M087-EStrategyIn 2016 the chief executive officer (CEO) of Harley-Davidson Inc., the iconic U.S. manufacturer of motorcycles, was facing a constant decline in sales and stock price due to the company's dependence on a mature U.S. market and the natural attrition of its most loyal riders, who were ageing. In May 2017, the CEO needed to determine how to return his global company to growth amid a protectionist agenda and direct business interference from the Whit...Starting at €8.20
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General Electric and Suez: Deal or No Deal
Bertrand GuillotinCase IVEY-9B19M035-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Jean-Louis Chaussade, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Suez SA (Suez), a French utility company that primarily operated in water and waste management, had to decide whether or not to acquire General Electric Water & Process Technologies. During the negotiations between Chaussade and the CEO of General Electric Company (GE), there had been many drastic changes, including the January 2017 inauguration of a US presid...Starting at €8.20
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Chick-fil-A: International Expansion Challenges
Bertrand GuillotinCase IVEY-9B20M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case describes the immense success of Chick-fil-A in the United States and its first major international expansion efforts in Toronto, Canada, and Reading, England amid increased competition in the United States. Although Chick-fil-A had become the third-largest fast-food chain in the United States in 2018, a public relations controversy that had simmered since 2012 over the company’s conservative Christian values still dogged the company’s ...Starting at €8.20
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IBM Newco: A High-Stakes Spinoff Amid a Battle of the Tech Titans
Bertrand Guillotin; Theodore L. Hill; Munir Mandviwalla; Julianne SellinCase IVEY-W33970-EInformation Technologies, StrategyTwo months after his January 1, 2021, appointment as chief executive officer (CEO) of NewCo, the code name for the soon-to-be spun off managed infrastructure services portion of Strategy Machines Corporation (IBM), Martin Schroeter was faced with the daunting prospect of creating a distinct strategy and identity for a huge company in a very short time frame. Announced on October 8, 2020, by IBM’s CEO, Arvind Krishna, NewCo was a high-stakes strat...Starting at €8.20