Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Socially Responsible Investment Funds in France: Regulations and Retail (B)
Diane-Laure Arjalies; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16N017-EFinance, StrategySupplement for product 9B16N016.Starting at €5.74
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Royal FloraHolland: The Dutch Floriculture Supply Chain
P. Fraser Johnson; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16D015-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn January 2016, the program director of Royal FloraHolland and a supply chain consultant met to develop a supply chain strategy that would allow Royal FloraHolland to adapt to the changing competitive environment that jeopardized its business model. Royal FloraHolland was the largest floriculture auction organization in the world, selling more than 30 million flowers and plants daily. Located in the Netherlands, Royal FloraHolland was a co-opera...Starting at €8.20
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Lyonbiopôle: The Challenge of Becoming a World-class Biotechnology Cluster
Anthony Goerzen; Ana ColovicCase IVEY-9B09M075-EStrategyIn December 2007, the Economics & International Affairs director of the competitiveness cluster, Lyonbiopôle, was responsible for the international development of the cluster. Lyonbiopôle was one of seven biotechnology clusters in France. Although Lyonbiopôle performed very well at the national level, its visibility as an international cluster in the biotechnology field was uncertain. Yet, for its member firms to thrive in the globalized world of...Starting at €8.20
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Danone: Adopting Integrated Reporting or Not (A)
Diane-Laure Arjalies; Michelle Rodrigue; Delphine Gibassier; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B18B017-EAccounting and Control, StrategyDanone SA (Danone), a multinational food company based in Paris, had a history of social and environmental consciousness and a corporate strategy that focused on economic and social objectives. In 2013, the company was trying to ensure that this social anStarting at €8.20
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The Access to Medicine Index (A): Engaging Stakeholders and Attracting Funding
Afshin Mehrpouya; Diane-Laure Arjalies; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17M010-EStrategyThe founder of the Access to Medicine Foundation, based in the Netherlands, had a goal to research and publish a biannual, global survey of pharmaceutical companies and their rankings, in terms of their effects in providing needed medicines to people in developing countries. When the first two iterations of the Access to Medicine Index (ATMI) were published in 2008 and 2010 (see case A), the most prominent challenges were engaging stakeholders—go...Starting at €8.20
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Socially Responsible Investment Funds in France: Regulations and Retail (A)
Diane-Laure Arjalies; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16N016-EFinance, StrategyIn 2012, the French government was faced with the challenge of setting the standards for socially responsible investment funds. A broader issue was the set of roles and responsibilities that regulators needed to take to ensure the best interest of society and the retail market. Retail consumers were different from institutional clients because they were numerous, they may not have had access to the same information available to more sophisticated...Starting at €8.20
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Danone: Adopting Integrated Reporting or Not (B)
Diane-Laure Arjalies; Michelle Rodrigue; Delphine Gibassier; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B18B018-EAccounting and Control, StrategySupplement for product 9B18B017.Starting at €5.74
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System@tic: The Race for Partners
Anthony Goerzen; Ana ColovicCase IVEY-9B09M047-EStrategyThe international affairs manager was responsible for developing and implementing an alliance strategy for System@tic Paris Region, a "pôle de compétitivé" (industry cluster) based in the Paris Region, France. The critical point was that, although inter-clusteral alliances had become essential to the success of a cluster - and the firms within them, many of the world's most prestigious clusters were highly sought after and, as a result, increasin...Starting at €8.20
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OWNI: Disrupting the French Media Landscape
Jean-Philippe Vergne; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B13M117-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOWNI was founded in April 2009 as a copyright-free online news and image distribution firm. As part of a web agency that developed web content and graphics for French companies, it insisted that all content produced could be made freely available to others under the Creative Commons licence. OWNI delivered hard-hitting news, sourced in the beginning mostly from bloggers and later supplemented by a team of investigative journalists. Set up to chal...Starting at €8.20
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L’Oreal S.A.: Rolling Out the Global Diversity Strategy
Cara C. Maurer; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C026-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyL’Oreal S.A. is in the process of implementing a global diversity strategy. The firm's Europe diversity director is working with various country units to roll out the strategy. The director faces obstacles such as cultural differences between countries and, generally, low awareness of the benefits a diversity strategy can bring.Starting at €8.20