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General Electric and Suez: Deal or No Deal
Bertrand GuillotinCase IVEY-9B19M035-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Jean-Louis Chaussade, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Suez SA (Suez), a French utility company that primarily operated in water and waste management, had to decide whether or not to acquire General Electric Water & Process Technologies. During the negotiations between Chaussade and the CEO of General Electric Company (GE), there had been many drastic changes, including the January 2017 inauguration of a US presid...Starting at €8.20
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Chick-fil-A: International Expansion Challenges
Bertrand GuillotinCase IVEY-9B20M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case describes the immense success of Chick-fil-A in the United States and its first major international expansion efforts in Toronto, Canada, and Reading, England amid increased competition in the United States. Although Chick-fil-A had become the third-largest fast-food chain in the United States in 2018, a public relations controversy that had simmered since 2012 over the company’s conservative Christian values still dogged the company’s ...Starting at €8.20
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CSL: Rebranding “The Biggest Company No One’s Ever Heard Of"
Bertrand Guillotin; Sheri Lambert; Phoebe DickinsonCase IVEY-W34093-EDecision Analysis, MarketingIn October 2021, the head of digital communications and branding at the Australian biopharmaceutical conglomerate CSL Limited (CSL), was tasked with a strategic rebranding exercise. By August 2022, he and other stakeholders felt a sense of pride and satisfaction at how quickly the rebranding initiatives had been completed. CSL felt that it had achieved the desired brand associations and met its targeted brand net promoter score performance. Looki...Starting at €8.20