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Blue Sky Ranch: Sustainable Meat
Vida Morkunas; Kristin MathesonCase IVEY-9B20A024-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn 2018, the owner of Blue Sky Ranch, a heritage pig farm in British Columbia, Canada, was reviewing her business options. She had been producing premium-priced, high-quality pork for two years; however, despite growing demand from restaurants, grocers, and consumers for high-end, sustainably raised, free-range meat, Blue Sky Ranch was not yet profitable. The owner faced several challenges in processing and delivering her product to clients, and ...Starting at €8.20
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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