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Paydiant
Alvarez, Jose B.; Williamson, Elizabeth C.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-511065-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards to make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to...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