Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Advantage Food & Beverage Vending
Michael A. Levin; Bruce C. BaileyCase IVEY-9B12A017-EMarketingAdvantage Food & Beverage Vending is a decision-based case that highlights four options for the owner and president of the Advantage Food & Beverage (AF&B) snack vending operation. He had been running his business for 16 years and possessed a great deal of knowledge about his company and the vending industry. His dilemma was whether or not to invest in his existing operation and, if so, how to determine the best use of his resources. The vending ...Starting at €8.20
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Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate: B2B and B2C Social Media Marketing
Raymond Pirouz; Emily Chen-BendleCase IVEY-9B12A057-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThis case explores social media marketing as both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) strategies. In spite of a challenging real estate environment, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate (BHGRE) was launched in 2008 by Realogy Corporation, the largest franchisor of real estate brands in the world, to maintain and grow market share with a new type of real estate company centered around lifestyle. BHGRE has grown rapidly and ha...Starting at €8.20
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Advantage Food & Beverage Sales Representative
Michael A. Levin; Bruce C. BaileyCase IVEY-9B13A023-EMarketingAdvantage Food & Beverage (AF&B), a sales and service vending machine company, has added an Avanti kiosk division and hired a sales representative to devote all their time to selling the kiosk service to businesses within a specific geographic market. In the first year of the kiosk operation, AF&B hired and fired three sales representatives while acquiring seven Avanti customers. A management review uncovered issues with the selling process and t...Starting at €8.20
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DonorsChoose.org: Refining a Successful Brand
Allison Johnson; Emily Chen-BendleCase IVEY-9B15A050-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyMore than a decade after its launch, DonorsChoose.org is a successful, well-known and well-regarded charitable organization that supports U.S. public schools. Yet in the years since the organization’s inception, the charity environment has changed, leading the organization’s chief marketing officer to investigate how to further clarify the brand in a shifting space. The case centres on findings delivered by a branding agency regarding a possible ...Starting at €8.20
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MediaMath: Positioning a Real-Time Interface for Online Media Planning & Buying
Raymond Pirouz; Emily Chen-BendleCase IVEY-9B13A014-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingMediaMath is a demand-side platform that provides a single interface from which online media buyers can buy display media advertising from multiple advertising exchanges. The company’s chief executive officer is contemplating the strategic direction of his new business after its first full year of operation. Specifically, he needs to determine which clients he should most actively pursue and how that decision will affect the strategic direction o...Starting at €8.20