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Y U Ranch: Strategy and Sustainability in Cattle Ranching (A)
Pratima Bansal; Pamela Laughland; Brent McKnightCase IVEY-9B09M080-EStrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - This case won the 2011 Oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition. The owner and operator of Y U Ranch, a Longhorn cattle ranch in southern Ontario, is required to make a set of interesting but seemingly unimportant decisions. In this case series, students will see that each decision builds on the previous decision (i.e. the decisions are path dependent). Taken together, these cases illustrate why industrial farming has su...Starting at €8.20
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Y U Ranch: Strategy and Sustainability in Cattle Ranching (C)
Pratima Bansal; Pamela Laughland; Brent McKnightCase IVEY-9B09M082-EStrategyThis is a supplement to Y U Ranch: Strategy and Sustainability in Cattle Ranching (A) and (B), products 9B09M080 and 9B09M081 and, taken together, this case series illustrates why industrial farming has supplanted the farm-based agricultural system.Starting at €5.74
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Sensible Life Products (B)
Charlene Zietsma; Brent McKnightCase IVEY-9B07M058-EStrategyThis supplement to Sensible Life Products (A), product #9B07M057, introduces a fifth opportunity in the form of a joint venture with a major product development firm. The deal involves Sensible Life Products cooperating in further developing the Benefect product into a consumer focused hand sanitizer product.Starting at €5.74
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Y U Ranch: Strategy and Sustainability in Cattle Ranching (B)
Pratima Bansal; Pamela Laughland; Brent McKnightCase IVEY-9B09M081-EStrategyThis is a supplement to Y U Ranch: Strategy and Sustainability in Cattle Ranching (A), product 9B09M080 and, taken together, this case series illustrates why industrial farming has supplanted the farm-based agricultural system.Starting at €5.74
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Kvadrat: Leading for Innovation
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-413120-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2013, Anders Byriel, CEO of the family-owned Danish textiles company, Kvadrat, considered the firm's strategic plan. In 2000, Byriel and Mette Bendix, Kvadrat's Product Director, had taken over management of the company from their fathers, who had founded Kvadrat in the 1960s. Byriel and Bendix had joined Kvadrat in 1992, and since that time, Kvadrat had grown from 19 million in annual sales to over 86 million. It had expanded its focus ...Starting at €8.20
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Kids & Company in 2018
Groysberg, Boris; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-419054-EStrategyThis case reveals to readers what has transpired at Kids & Company in the year following the decision point presented in Kids & Company: Entering the U.S. (case 418-011).Starting at €8.20
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Sensible Life Products (A)
Charlene Zietsma; Brent McKnightCase IVEY-9B07M057-EStrategyAn entrepreneur and chief executive officer (CEO) of Sensible Life Products has developed a revolutionary botanical disinfectant called Benefect, the flagship product of his company. This new product is unique among disinfectant products in that it is non-toxic, unlike the majority of conventional disinfectants containing harmful chemicals, such as ammonia, alcohol and chlorine. As a result of the unique properties of the product, the CEO has rec...Starting at €8.20
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-417049-ELeadership and People Managementshould he continue to push forward with a change agenda? Or should the organization pause and catch its breath? This case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details.Starting at €8.20
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Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
Groysberg, Boris; Preble, Matthew; Connolly Baden, KatherineCase HBS-418011-EStrategyIn April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed with its planned U.S. expansion. Kids & Company already has five U.S. childcare centers in and around Chicago, Illinois, and one under construction in Boston, Massachusetts, but before...Starting at €8.20
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: "One CMHC" and Version 3.0
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-419068-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case provides details on Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation's strategy, organizational design, culture, and people practices and how they fit together to support CMHC's goals.Starting at €8.20