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Northern Rush
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Gregory CritchleyCase IVEY-9B15B004-EAccounting and Control, MarketingA university instructor mulls over the idea of partnering with six of his students to start a new business that would provide all-in-one starter kits for first-year university or college students moving into residences across Canada. To help with his decision-making process, the instructor wants to evaluate the product and the group’s marketing strategy; he also wants to project the new venture’s financial performance for the first three years of...Starting at €8.20
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David E. White: Executive Direct Line
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Gregory CritchleyCase IVEY-9B15A017-EMarketingThe owner of a fine-menswear store needs to make some crucial decisions regarding his own new line of made-to-measure clothing. He has to decide how to best market a new line and make decisions regarding the target market, product, placement and promotion.Starting at €8.20
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Suncor in the Oil Sands Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L.Case HBS-708023-EStrategyDescribes the economics, technology, and politics of the oil sands industry, focusing on one of the industry's leading firms. Oil sands deposits in Alberta represent a potentially vast reserve of hydrocarbons, but the extraction, refining, and transportation challenges are formidable, and the environmental consequences of large-scare oil sands development potentially severe. Encourages students to examine Suncor's strategic positioning and cost s...Starting at €8.20
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Area One Farms
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Alvarez, Jose B.; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-518069-EMarketingIn 2017, Joelle Faulkner, CEO of Area One Farms, a Canadian private-equity fund focused on investing in the best Canadian farms and helping them expand, considered the merits and disadvantages of expanding her business to the U.S. While the markets shared some similarities, Faulkner did not know the U.S. market as well as the Canadian one. Could her joint venture partnership model work as well in the U.S. as it had in her home country?Starting at €8.20