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Creating a Cluster around a Clown: The Montreal Circus Cluster (A)
Berrone, Pascual; Blázquez, María Luisa; Diego, Enrique deCase SM-1597-EInnovation and Change, StrategyThe case examines the situation of Cirque du Soleil in its early years. Despite initial success, Guy Laliberté, founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, is facing a number of challenges, including aspects such as increasing competition, access to the pool of talent, location and growth. All of these elements are in Laliberté's mind just before meeting with Jean Doré, the mayor of Montreal. Laliberté thinks that it will be a great opportunity to ask f...Starting at €8.20
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Creating a Cluster around a Clown: The Montreal Circus Cluster (C)
Berrone, Pascual; Blázquez, María Luisa; Diego, Enrique deCase SM-1599-EInnovation and Change, StrategyThe case describes the late developments of the circus cluster in Montreal. By 2007 an active community had been organized around the circus in Montreal, including forty circus companies, twenty schools, several production agencies and social-change organizations as well as hundreds of professional circus artists. The circus had also created an entire industry of specialized services including presenters, administrators, riggers, suppliers, techn...Starting at €5.74
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Victorinox: 125 años dando la talla
Jamro, Konrad; Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Lee, Yih-TeenCase DPO-202Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementCon 125 años de experiencia y unos valores únicos, Victorinox parecía estar preparada para sobrevivir a la crisis económica mundial que se hizo patente en otoño de 2008. A finales del verano de 2009, antes de la reunión del Consejo de Administración de la empresa, su CEO, Karl Elsener Jr., de 51 años, se preguntaba si darían resultado las medidas tomadas hasta entonces para luchar contra la crisis, teniendo en cuenta que esta era más amplia y pro...Starting at €8.20
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Vancouver: el reto de convertirse en la ciudad más verde del mundo
Berrone, Pascual; Ricart, Joan Enric; Blázquez, María LuisaCase SM-1612Economics, Innovation and Change, StrategyEl presente caso describe el plan de actuación Greenest City 2020 que el ayuntamiento de Vancouver puso oficialmente en marcha en 2011 con el objetivo de conseguir que Vancouver se convirtiera en la ciudad más verde y sostenible del mundo. Gregor Robertson, el alcalde de la ciudad, fue el principal impulsor de este plan estratégico tan ambicioso. A pesar de que en su día tuvo éxito en el ámbito del emprendimiento social y de que ya había puesto e...Starting at €8.20
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Vancouver: The Challenge of Becoming the Greenest City
Berrone, Pascual; Ricart, Joan Enric; Blázquez, María LuisaCase SM-1612-EEconomics, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe case describes the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan that the City of Vancouver formally launched in 2011 and whose aim is to make Vancouver the greenest city on the planet. Gregor Robertson, mayor of Vancouver, is the main champion of the ambitious strategic plan. While he has had past success as a social entrepreneur and has implemented several green urban initiatives in his role as mayor, he struggles with some areas and aspects of the plan. ...Starting at €8.20
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Sidewalk Toronto: Are Smart Cities the Future of Urban Development
Peiret, Clara; Berrone, Pascual; Ricart, Joan EnricCase SM-1696-EEconomics, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe case describes Sidewalk Toronto project. It was a project first initiated by Waterfront Toronto in 2017 by issuing the request for proposal (RFP) on development of the Quayside area. Sidewalk Labs, which is a subsidiary company of Alphabet Inc. and a sister company of Google, won the bid in 2017. The Master Innovation Development Plan (MIDP) was created in 2019 through conversations with over 21,000 Torontonians and aimed to be an innovative ...Starting at €8.20
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Creating a Cluster around a Clown: The Montreal Circus Cluster (B)
Berrone, Pascual; Blázquez, María Luisa; Diego, Enrique deCase SM-1598-EInnovation and Change, StrategyThe case addresses the incipient steps that the government of Quebec is taking toward supporting a circus cluster in the region. Unlike other cluster cases in which the focus is on the cost-benefit analysis of relocating existing companies in a given geographical area, this case takes a different approach, looking at the creation of a cluster "from scratch." This case describes the "growing pains" of cluster formation.Starting at €5.74
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Victorinox: 125 Years in the Cutting Edge
Jamro, Konrad; Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Lee, Yih-TeenCase DPO-202-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementWith 125 years of experience and a unique set of values, Victorinox seemed to be well prepared to survive the worldwide economic crisis, which became evident in the fall of 2008. At the end of the summer of 2009, before the brand board meeting, 51 year-old Carl Elsener Jr., the CEO of the company, was wondering whether the measures taken so far to fight back the crisis would work, taking into account that the current crisis was much deeper and wi...Starting at €8.20
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Sidewalk Toronto: ¿Las ciudades inteligentes son el futuro del desarrollo urbanístico
Peiret, Clara; Berrone, Pascual; Ricart, Joan EnricCase SM-1696Economics, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyEl caso describe el proyecto Sidewalk Toronto. Se trataba de un proyecto impulsado originalmente por Waterfront Toronto en 2017 con la emisión de una solicitud de propuestas (RFP) para el desarrollo de la zona de Quayside. Sidewalk Labs, filial de Alphabet Inc. y empresa hermana de Google, ganó la licitación en 2017. En 2019, a partir de las conversaciones mantenidas con más de 21.000 torontonianos, se creó el Plan Maestro de Innovación y Desarro...Starting at €8.20
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Scribendi
Michael Wurth; Samila, SampsaCase SM-1725-ECorporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis case describes the situation at Scribendi, an online platform to connect writers with English-language editors. Scribendi has developed an AI algorithm to do automatic grammar error correction. The dilemmas in the case are about how the company should take advantage of this algorithm internally and also if and how they should commercialize it. Key challenges are funding and staffing the development and commercialization. The case allows for ...Starting at €8.20