Ivey Business School (Canada)
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OmniFoods: Plant-Based Pork from Hong Kong to the Rest of China
Pong Yuen Howard Lam; Hugh Thomas; Hang Yee Rosette Leung; Hanni JieCase IVEY-W27829-EKnowledge and Communication, MarketingGreen Monday Group (GMG) was founded in 2012 with a mission to “construct a multi-faceted global ecosystem of future food that combats climate change, food insecurity, public health crisis, planetary devastation, and animal suffering.” In 2020, GMG partnered with McDonald’s in Hong Kong and launched six dishes featuring OmniPork Luncheon Meat, a plant-based meat substitute that GMG had developed. In February 2021, the chief executive officer and ...Starting at €8.20
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Mobiuspace: Venturing into Emerging Markets
Dai Yao; Xingyu Chen; Li Ji; Ling Jiang; Shijie LuCase IVEY-9B20A040-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn mid 2019, Mobiuspace, a Chinese Internet company, faced a new challenge. As a result of declining revenues from domestic mobile Internet markets, overseas markets offered new opportunities. In 2009, Snaptube, a short video aggregation and distribution platform that Mobiuspace offered as its main product, seized the opportunity to grow in emerging markets by creating localized and personalized video content. Despite the company’s initial succes...Starting at €8.20
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Youliaodao in the Era of Knowledge Economy: Go Big or Go Home
Dai Yao; Xingyu Chen; Ling Jiang; Li JiCase IVEY-9B20A031-EMarketingIn 2016, China witnessed a significant rise in the knowledge economy. Many users, who had been used to consuming information on the Internet for free, had become increasingly willing to pay for user-generated-content (UGC). Recognizing this emerging opportunity, Qiushibaike (QB), a well-established UGC platform with a focus on entertaining content, rolled out a new pay-for-knowledge product, namely Youliaodao (YLD), which focused on informational...Starting at €8.20
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Launching and Marketing a Private Hospital in Hong Kong: CUHK Medical Centre
David Barrett; Hong Fung; Pong Yuen Howard Lam; Hang Yee Rosette Leung; Jacky Wing Kin TangCase IVEY-W33642-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingOpened in January 2021, the medical centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), CUHK Medical Centre (CUMC), was a non-profit teaching hospital wholly owned by the university. In December 2022, Professor Hong Fung, the executive director and chief executive officer, knew that the CUMC board of directors would soon be asking how he was going to ensure that the privately operated CUMC would remain financially sustainable while still achiev...Starting at €8.20