Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Opera Philadelphia: Segmentation Strategies for Changing Markets
Dennis Paris; Jean Wilcox; Amy Lavin; Sheri LambertCase IVEY-9B19A039-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyBetween 2010 and 2015, Opera Philadelphia experienced a steep decline in household subscribers and single-ticket buyers, coupled with severe revenue fluctuations. At that time, market behaviours had changed along with growth in more sophisticated use of dStarting at €8.20
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Terrell Manufacturing: Buying a Machine
Bhavesh Patel; Vincent PalomboCase IVEY-9B18B015-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipTerrell Manufacturing (Terrell) was a small-scale producer of manifolds in Cleveland, Ohio. In late 2015, one of its clients decided to outsource the manifolds it had been producing in-house and approached Terrell with a proposal: Terrell could buy its equipment and produce the manifolds for the client. Terrell needed to quote a production rate based on the hourly cost of operating the equipment to make the client's manifolds. The rate needed to ...Starting at €8.20
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A Risk Versus Reward Approach to Market Research
Sheri Lambert; Sara HonovichCase IVEY-W27947-EAccounting and ControlKing’s Hawaiian Bakery, West Inc. (King’s Hawaiian), a beloved and highly regarded company, produced a line of bread products dating back to the 1950s and was inspired by a Portuguese sweet bread. The business had grown over time, adding more production facilities and expanding from Hawaii to the mainland United States in 1977. King’s Hawaiian had done minimal consumer research related to its development of new products before it hired Troy Figgi...Starting at €8.20
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J.Crew: Are Americans Ready to Dress Down?
Sheri Lambert; Brooke ReaveyCase IVEY-W27129-EMarketingIn July 2019, J.Crew Group Inc., a multi-brand, multichannel specialty US clothing retailer, was investigating a launch within a new apparel category. The company’s marketing research manager had been tasked with interpreting trends and market potential within the industry as well as primary customer research, to recommend a new product line that would increase revenues. She saw three main potentially viable options in the rental, resale, and ath...Starting at €8.20
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#OwnYourStar: Together We Can Counter Rising Antisemitism
Sheri Lambert; Amy Lavin; Jennifer BermanCase IVEY-W30125-EMarketing, StrategyHillel International was founded in the United States in 1929 as a non-profit organization, with a mission to enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. By 2021, it had grown into the world’s largest Jewish college campus organization with over US$50 million in revenue and had achieved international recognition by connecting students at colleges and universities around the world. In August 2021, t...Starting at €8.20
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Longevity Wines: Fermenting Inclusion for Black Wine Entrepreneurs
Sheri Lambert; Brooke Reavey; Monique BellCase IVEY-W30135-EMarketing, StrategyLongevity Wines was a family-owned urban winery and certified minority-owned business based in the Livermore Valley wine region of Northern California. Founders Phil and Debra Long opened Longevity Wines in 2008 when their winemaking hobby outgrew their garage. By that time, they had spent years visiting tasting rooms and had identified a need to increase inclusivity in the wine community. The wine industry had a history of exclusion in terms of ...Starting at €8.20
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Swoon: Mixing Up the Perfect Marketing Cocktail
Sheri Lambert; Marilyn AnthonyCase IVEY-W25613-EMarketingTwo women entrepreneurs' early-stage company achieved notable success when they introduced an innovative zero-sugar product into the highly competitive beverage market. After navigating a rebrand, the co-founders were poised to scale their company throughStarting at €8.20
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Strategic Management at AcademyOne: Growth towards an Exit Strategy
Sheri LambertCase IVEY-W26705-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAcademyOne, Inc. (AcademyOne) was a small privately owned software provider whose focus was on providing students with college transfer solutions. It operated as an educational technology company that provided software as a service (SaaS) products to simplify and streamline the college transfer and advising process. After surviving an economic recession and an industry lawsuit, the firm had regained its financial footing, and in 2021, now that it...Starting at €8.20
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Insomnia Cookies: Owning the Night through Research & 'Doughvelopment'
Sheri LambertCase IVEY-W30426-EMarketing, StrategyIn May 2022, an interactive brand activation for Insomnia Cookies (Cookies), called CookieLab, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Insomnia enjoyed strong brand-name recognition for its late-night snack of freshly baked cookies and offered a strong unique selling point (USP), especially among college students. But there were still many questions about the company’s next steps, including whether a growth strategy through CookieLab was the most su...Starting at €8.20
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Soom Foods: Zooming Out for A Booming Supply Chain
Neha Mittal; Sheri Lambert; Sara HonovichCase IVEY-W27963-EMarketing, StrategyFounded in 2013 by sisters Shelby, Jackie, and Amy Zitelman, Philadelphia-based Soom Foods (Soom) aimed to educate US consumers on tahini and make the product a staple in US pantries. By 2021, the business had grown into a multimillion-dollar revenue company and had achieved national distribution through an omni-channel sales effort. However, Soom’s reliance on the single-source Ethiopian Humera sesame seed to prepare its high-quality tahini had ...Starting at €8.20