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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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SoJo: Modeling Social Enterprise
Kanika Gupta; Melissa Leithwood; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B13M103-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySoJo is an online resource hub — optimized for web and mobile — focused on helping early-stage social innovators turn their ideas into action. Founded in Canada as a for-profit venture in 2010, the company depends mainly on volunteer part-time staff and competes for traffic in cyberspace with its own content providers. Many skeptics doubted the idea would ever work: why would content providers forego traffic on their own sites by relinquishing th...Starting at €8.20
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Renewable Energy Co.
Oana Branzei; Stewart Thornhill; Guy L.F. Holburn; Adam ReedsCase IVEY-9B09M043-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAfter half a year researching technologies and examining the current and future environment for renewable energy in Ontario, Canada, two MBA graduates must decide which renewable energy field to enter — solar photovoltaic, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, biogas, or ocean. Each choice represents great opportunities, and the entrepreneurs must ensure that they select the most suitable technology based on their experience and management skills, and...Starting at €8.20
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Wellspring (A): Partnering for Compassion
Ryan Raffety; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B13M131-EStrategyThe case features a non-profit organization in crisis: a local cancer-support centre faces many constraints but has few options. The organization is committed to improving the lives of families affected by cancer by providing free services to its members and funding its small full-time staff through donations. However, its compassionate mission and its financial viability appear to be at odds, with every additional program sinking the small non-p...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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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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StormFisher (B): Power with Purpose
Oana Branzei; Stewart Thornhill; Adam ReedsCase IVEY-9B08M098-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn this supplement to StormFisher (A): Power with Purpose, students are presented with an abbreviated version of the business plan, and challenged to enlist and respond to funding alternatives.Starting at €5.74