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OECM: Transforming Public-Sector Culture and Scaffolding for Growth
Farzad H. Alvi; Amir NematbakhshCase IVEY-9B19M101-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn March 2018, Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM) was an unlikely high-growth company. From its humble origins as a collaborative experiment to create efficiencies for the education sector—an experiment that had lost money and had to be fiStarting at €8.20
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Vice Media: Competitive Advantage and Global Expansion
Farzad H. AlviCase IVEY-9B14M039-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyVice Media has gone from a startup in Canada to landing in New York City and assiduously building a global youth brand through unique and seemingly inimitable competitive advantages. While globalizing its operations, Vice Media appears to have developed expertise in standardizing certain aspects of its business, adapting others to local context and, increasingly, building a global chain. Given Vice Media’s explosive growth, how can its global val...Starting at €8.20
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HomeZilla: Attracting Homebuyers through Better Photos
Gregory S. Zaric; Hongmei SunCase IVEY-9B16E029-ECorporate GovernanceIn November 2014, the founder and chief executive officer of HomeZilla, in Toronto, Canada, was considering how to provide value-added services to his business. One of the company’s main services was to work with real estate agents to provide web listings to attract home shoppers. Many Internet companies were analyzing web-browsing data in an effort to better understand user behaviour and thus improve their business. Inspired by this trend, the f...Starting at €8.20
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Lucas Wang: Stop-Loss Strategy
Hubert Pun; Hongmei SunCase IVEY-9B16E023-ECorporate GovernanceOn February 29, 2016, an investor, who was a business school graduate, purchased one share of Tesla Motors, Inc. stock for $191.93. In doing so, the investor wondered what trading strategy should be followed over the next six months to maximize returns while minimizing risk. In choosing a strategy, he wanted to make good use of the knowledge gained from his financial analytics classes. To that end, he did not know if he should choose a buy and ho...Starting at €8.20