Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Flashfood.Shop: Self-Service Retailing of Fresh Meals in China
Yibo Lyu; Shaojie Han; Qing Liu; Jingqin SuCase IVEY-9B19M036-EStrategyOn April 1, 2017, Flashfood.Shop, a new brand in self-service retailing of fresh meals, was founded in Dalian, Liaoning province, China. The self-service retail platform provided office workers with affordable and convenient fresh meals 24 hours per day. Flashfood.Shop used intelligent self-catering machines as its physical sales terminals and it used an intelligent self-catering system as its online service interface. By the end of June 2018, Fl...Starting at €8.20
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Dalian Airport's Alliance Management Dilemma
Miao Cui; Jun Wang; Jacqueline Tuck; Jingqin Su; Shujuan WangCase IVEY-9B13M120-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe general manager of market development for the Dalian International Airport in China was worried. Two years after he had successfully launched the Northeastern Hinterland and Bohai Rim Region Airport Aviation Market Strategic Alliance in 2009, it was facing serious external and internal challenges. Competitors had begun to impact on the alliance by intensively adding flights to regional airports with the support of subsidies from provincial an...Starting at €8.20
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Vietnam's Embrace of ICT for Economic Development: Success and Future Challenges
Vu Minh Khuong; Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-9B15E005-EInformation Technologies, StrategyVietnam has made impressive economic gains over a period of three decades, following the Doi Moi reforms of 1986. Before reform, the country’s socialist economy had been unable to displace the poverty that had plagued the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. After reform, Vietnam has experienced many years of sustained growth, as evidenced by its advances on several economic performance rankings. By 2014, Vietnam's rankings compared favou...Starting at €8.20
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Dalian Venture Workshop Technology Service Co., Ltd.: Business Incubation in China
Yibo Lyu; Shaojie Han; Qing Liu; Jingqin Su; Jianfeng HuCase IVEY-9B18M184-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFounded in 2012 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, Dalian Venture Workshop Technology Service Co., Ltd. (Venture Workshop) was a business incubator that provided early stage start-ups with incubation and investment services. In 2014, China identified VeStarting at €8.20
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Open Banking
Robert D. Austin; Jashan PuniyaCase IVEY-9B21M060-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), one of the world’s largest banks, was confronting the advent of open banking in its retail banking business. In late 2020, policy makers and regulators were advocating movement toward open banking with growing enthusiasm as a way to stimulate competition in the financial services sector and thus, encourage greater value creation for consumers.
JPMC, however, seemed to embrace open banking while also resisting i...Starting at €8.20
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Disruptive Innovation: Developing and Adapting Business Models for an Uncertain Future (Digital Learning Experience)
Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-W35278-EInformation TechnologiesThe aim of this Course DLE is to investigate how innovation influences competition, and why it carries with it great potential for both opportunity and threat. When innovation influences competition, we often use the word disruption to describe what has happened to an established competitive landscape. As we’ll see, though, the word ‘disruption’ has become overused. Thus, a secondary purpose of this DLE is to refine common notions of disruption i...Starting at €8.20
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Supor: How to Resolve Channel Conflict
Miao Cui; Yiwei Du; Jingqin Su; Sitara Aziz; Yi HuCase IVEY-9B16M161-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2007, the chairman of Supor Group led the company in a new venture in the sanitary ware industry. Supor Group was the first listed company in the Chinese cookware market, and Supor Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd. (Supor) was Supor Group’s most important industry. Supor established three production bases in Zhejiang and Shenyang, China. Its marketing channels included brand agents and direct-sale stores. The company also opened an online flagship store...Starting at €8.20
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Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship: Business Incubation in the Danish Context
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Demetra DimokopoulosCase IVEY-9B17M116-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2015, the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), the largest business incubator in Denmark, was admitting 100–125 new start-ups each year and attracting external funding of US$33 million from both public and private sources—all with an annual budget of US$435,000, funded exclusively by the Copenhagen Business School. Like most business incubators, CSE worked to provide entrepreneurs with training, mentorship, and investors, and to enhanc...Starting at €8.20
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Knight Capital Americas LLC
Robert D. Austin; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15E008-EInformation TechnologiesIt took 19 years to build Knight Capital Americas LLC into the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, but on August 1, 2012, it took only 45 minutes for the firm to be wiped out by an information technology (IT) problem: a change in the company's software caused it to lose more than $450 million dollars in less than an hour. Although it was ultimately saved from bankruptcy when it was acquired two days later, the terms of acquisitio...Starting at €8.20
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Pagani Automobili S.p.A: Motoring Becomes Electric
Robert D. Austin; Adrian PierceCase IVEY-9B19M066-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2018, Modena, Italy’s Pagani Automobili S.p.A (Pagani Automobili), a boutique designer and manufacturer of high-performance internal combustion engine powered supercars, was struggling to develop a response to the emergence of electric vehicle teStarting at €8.20