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Siemens Canada: Digital Transformation
Ning Su; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B20M067-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn mid-2018, the president and chief executive officer of Siemens Canada was examining his options in executing Vision 2020+, a growth plan developed by the company's headquarters in Germany. One of the cornerstones of the plan was digitalization, both internally, among the company's sprawling manufacturing operations, and externally, among the company's industrial customers. How could Siemens Canada, as a North American subsidiary of a large mul...Starting at €8.20
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Red Tomato: Keeping it Local
Alvarez, Jose B.; Shelman, Mary; Winig, LauraCase HBS-510023-EThis case describes the operating model and history of Red Tomato, a non-profit organization dedicated to branding and logistical support for locally grown produce farmers in the northeast U.S. The case highlights the challenges involved in making locally grown produce available to large consumer markets.Starting at €8.20
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Kerry Group: Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Alvarez, Jose B.; McLoughlin, Damien; Labruyere, ToniaCase HBS-721019-EStrategyThe Irish company Kerry Group, one of the leading global players in the taste and nutrition industry, wants to ensure its future growth in developing and developed markets. Founded in 1972 as a dairy cooperative, it had grown into a provider of taste and nutrition solutions through many acquisitions, but also through organic growth. In 2020, Kerry rolled out its new sustainability strategy, "Beyond the Horizon", with the goal of reaching 2 billio...Starting at €8.20
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Aviron Interactive Inc.: Bootstrapping a Gamification Fitness Startup
Derrick Neufeld; Ning Su; Ken Mark; Vy Hoang; Michael LaPalme; Angela VavitsasCase IVEY-9B19E003-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2016, Toronto entrepreneur Andy Hoang was working to launch a new business, Aviron Interactive Inc., a developer and marketer of interactive rowing machines that would use gamification to allow users to work out with others through a virtual connection and an innovative, remotely-activated resistance adjustor. Hoang wanted to create the new business by wrapping an outsourced services model around a central core that included the key business i...Starting at €8.20
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Value Retail: creación de una experiencia de lujo
Alvarez, Jose B.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-513S21MarketingValue Retail PLC propiedad y está gestionado una serie de destinos de compras prima (pueblos) en toda Europa. Pronto la compañía estaría entrando en un mercado totalmente nuevo: China. Pueblos de la compañía habían demostrado ser popular entre los dos compradores (muchos de los cuales eran turistas internacionales que habían llegado a Europa específicamente para visitar uno de Valor de venta al por menor Pueblos) y las marcas, algunas de las cual...Starting at €8.20
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HuStream Technologies Interactive Video
Barbara L. Marcolin; Kathryn Brohman; Ning Su; Norine Webster; Laura MarcolinCase IVEY-9B14E008-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyA management consulting team has been hired to advise HuStream Technologies on a new business model and target market. HuStream operates a service-based business model, providing customers with fully produced interactive video content. In the founders’ efforts to transition to a product-based business, they have built a cloud-based platform to provide easy accessibility to their company’s products and services. Using that platform, clients can pr...Starting at €8.20
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Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports
Alvarez, Jose B.; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Moloney, EmerCase HBS-519043-EMarketingAgriculture was Ireland's largest indigenous industry. Its agri-food sector was export-driven, with almost 90% of production exported. Bord Bia was the Irish government agency charged with the promotion, trade development and marketing of the Irish food, drink and horticulture industry. Bord Bia's CEO, Tara McCarthy, was shaping the government agency's new strategy amid a volatile socio-political environment (with Brexit and other cross border tr...Starting at €8.20
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Customer Loyalty Schemes in the Retail Sector
Alvarez, Jose B.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-511077-EMarketingCustomer loyalty schemes (or programs) are explicit efforts by retailers to gain long-term patronage from customers. Loyalty schemes are developed for a variety of reasons: to reward loyal customers, to generate more robust information about customer behavior, to influence consumer behavior, and as a defensive measure to combat a competing scheme. The purpose of this note is to describe the objectives of these schemes, including their origin and ...Starting at €8.20
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Lufa Farms
Alvarez, Jose B.; Mackalski, Robert; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-514008-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 2013, Mohamed Hage, founder of the rooftop farming business called Lufa Farms, thought his company had reached a level of maturity where scaling the business model was the next logical step. With two greenhouses already in Canada, he was looking into other locations in the U.S. Though Lufa Farms' advanced cultivation technologies made the company stand out in its sector, ...Starting at €8.20