Ivey Business School (Canada)
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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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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
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Primateria AB: Scaling Up and Protecting IP
Torsten Doering; Olle WanstrandCase IVEY-W24938-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementSwedish technology start-up Primateria AB (Primateria) was founded in November of 2004 with the main idea to provide science-backed consulting services for cutting-tool producers and end-users. What had started as a consulting service without the need for assets turned quickly into a production-driven service to support the cutting tool supply chain. The company had managed to consistently grow without external capital, had automated processes, o...Starting at €8.20