Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Pacific Drilling: The Preferred Offshore Driller
Haiyang Li; Frederic Jacquemin; Toby LiCase IVEY-9B16M061-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFounded in 2006, Pacific Drilling was a fast-growing offshore drilling company. From the beginning, the company’s chief executive officer was determined to create a unique drilling company by focusing exclusively on ultra-deepwater drilling and technological innovation. By the end of 2014, the company had more than 1,600 employees and was generating US$1 billion in annual revenues. However, the company also faced several challenges, such as being...Starting at €8.20
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Julie Hallman at the Falaise Foundation
Ann C. Frost; Tony S. Frost; Mary GillettCase IVEY-9B16M073-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2014, Julie Hallman was about to assume the presidency of the struggling non-profit arts organization, the Falaise Foundation, which offered a residence for small groups of artists and scholars from around the world to work on creative endeavours at its extensive property in the South of France. The foundation was suffering financially due to a combination of weak fundraising, high operating costs, an ineffective board of trustees, and a m...Starting at €8.20
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GE China Technology Center: Evolving Role in Global Innovation
Haiyang Li; Rebecca ChungCase IVEY-9B15M099-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Bringing Technology to Market Award, 2016 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. This case describes how General Electric has developed its China Technology Center over the past decade. The case also elaborates on the changing role of the China Technology Center in General Electric’s global research and development strategy. In 2000, General Electric set up its China Technology Center ...Starting at €8.20
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Sun Life Financial: A Potential Indian Life Insurance Joint Venture
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future, product 9B07M045, hones in on Sun Life's decision to re-enter the Indian insurance market.Starting at €8.20
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Siam Canadian Foods Co. Ltd. (Spanish version)
John R. Kennedy; Tony S. Frost; Tom GleaveCase IVEY-9A97GS03Entrepreneurship, StrategyEl director de gerente y fundador de la compania Siam Canadian Foods Co. Ltd., basados en Bangkok consideraba las oportunidades de negocio emergentes en el pais vecino Birmania (tambien conocida como Myanmar). Aunque relativamente sea subdesarrollado comparado al resto de Asia Sur-Oriental, Birmania estuvo experimentando niveles aumentados de actividad de la inversion extranjera estos ultimos anos. Tailandia, que habia considerado entrar en Birma...Starting at €8.20
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Examining Supply-Side Benefits of Virtual Teaching
Ann C. Frost; Tony S. FrostArticle IVEY-9B20TC02-EStrategySome physical classroom experiences can’t be beat, but moving university programs online offers instructors unexpected advantages.Starting at €8.20
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Zhuiyi Technology: Develop or Diversify?
Chongqiao Xiong; Haiyang Li; Yijia Tang; Jiana LuCase IVEY-W31059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case describes how Zhuiyi, a leading conversational artificial intelligence (AI) start-up in China, developed its growth strategy and made transitions in the face of product commercialization challenges. The crux lies in the low customer satisfaction rate of AI products, which could be endogenously attributed to mismatched expectations among customers and the founding team in the product development process as well as to the lack of vertical ...Starting at €8.20
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Zhuiyi Technology: Develop or Diversify? - Teaching Note
Chongqiao Xiong; Haiyang Li; Yijia Tang; Jiana LuTeaching Note IVEY-W31060-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product W31059.Starting at €0.00
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Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M045-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Sun Life Financial cases allow students to take a cross-enterprise leadership approach in examining Sun Life's effort to re-enter the Indian insurance market. Set in March 1999, a vice-president in Sun Life's international team is looking at international expansion options. In its domestic market, Sun Life, relative to its peers, has had below average financial performance. With the domestic insurers demutualizing (i.e. converting from a poli...Starting at €8.20
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Globalive: Change in the Canadian Wireless Telecom Industry
Adam Fremeth; Tony S. Frost; Guy L.F. Holburn; Kevin Chan; Peter WalkerCase IVEY-9B11M003-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case describes the situation for Globalive in 2009 shortly after its bid to enter the Canadian wireless telecommunications sector had been denied by the regulatory agency on the grounds that it breached foreign ownership restrictions. The case covers the background to Globalive and the events leading to the regulator’s decision. Andrea Wood, the chief legal officer of WIND Mobile, the wireless brand owned by Globalive, must decide what recom...Starting at €8.20