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AutoNation: The Changing Auto Dealership Landscape
Daniel DoironCase IVEY-W33379-EStrategyAutoNation Inc. (AutoNation), the largest auto dealership group in the United States, found itself in an envious position at the end of 2022. Sales and profits were at an all-time high, and AutoNation had a strong cash position and growth aspirations. However, the auto industry was undergoing changes, driven primarily by the electric vehicle (EV) revolution that was in full swing in early 2023. Committed to an EV future, original equipment manufa...Starting at €8.20
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RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Gino, Francesca; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-920045-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of "enablers of collaboration" (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. HisStarting at €5.74
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Cervus Equipment Corporation: Harvesting a New Future
Daniel Doiron; Davis SchryerCase IVEY-9B13M092-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBy 2015, Cervus Equipment Corporation, based in Calgary, Alberta, has grown its business substantially through regional acquisitions and strong organic growth. The company was founded in the 1990s to manage and consolidate farm equipment dealerships in western Canada but, in partnership with original equipment manufacturers, has branched into the construction equipment and long haul trucking manufacturing industries and has moved into New Zealand...Starting at €8.20
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LOLA: Do You Know What's in Your Tampon
Schlesinger, Leonard A.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-320015-EEntrepreneurshipLOLA is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business launched in 2015. What started as a company to provide women with organic and transparent material-labeled tampons via a subscription model, had, by 2019 evolved to include additional menstrual and sexual wellness products. LOLA's leadership wanted women to come to the company for all of their reproductive health needs (including information and a place to engage in conversation) from menstruation throu...Starting at €8.20
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MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid
Applegate, Lynda M.; Davila Castilla, Jose Antonio; Mehta, Sarah; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-817073-EIn January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP), defined as those living on less than $10 per day. Since its launch in 2009, MIA had built nearly 25,000 homes-which provided safe shel...Starting at €8.20
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Cervus Equipment Corporation: Diversified Growth in Trucking
Daniel Doiron; Davis SchryerCase IVEY-9B16M230-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyCervus Equipment Corporation, the major Canadian dealer group for John Deere and Peterbilt Motors Company equipment, had grown from CA$56 million in 2004 to close to $1 billion in 2014. It had achieved these results through an aggressive acquisition and growth-oriented strategy, by purchasing heavy-equipment dealerships representing John Deere, Bobcat, and other high-end original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company’s move into the long-ha...Starting at €8.20
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RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Gino, Francesca; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-920008-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of "enablers of collaboration" (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. HisStarting at €8.20