Ivey Business School (Canada)
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DuckDuckGo: Reinventing the Internet Search
Nakul Parameswar; Jahnavi Maddipatla; Sanjay DhirCase IVEY-9B19M050-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyDuckDuckGo, a late entrant in the search engine industry, was founded in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg with the main purpose of protecting users' online privacy and raising the standard of trust online. DuckDuckGo earned a reputation for being "the search engine that doesn’t track you," and despite initial hurdles, by 2017, it had emerged as one of the top 10 search engines in the world. DuckDuckGo had managed to successfully leverage increasing priva...Starting at €8.20
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Bird Scooters: Shaking up the Micro-Mobility Market
Sayan Chatterjee; Michael Marchionda; Sarah SydlowskiCase IVEY-9B20M087-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBird Electric Vehicle Sharing (Bird)’s value proposition seems to be to offer inexpensive, on-demand transportation that can deliver riders directly to their destination in metropolitan areas. Electric scooters can be unlocked with a smartphone and left anywhere after use, minimizing the burden on consumersbut also causing tremendous traffic problems for city administrators. The disruption created by Bird not only drew the attention of urban com...Starting at €8.20