Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Dudley, Dentists and Design: A 3D Disruption Dilemma
Glenn Brophey; Evan StubbertCase IVEY-9B15M061-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe managing partner of Proto3000, a 10-year-old 3D Printing services and supply firm, was both gratified by the recent explosion of popular media coverage of 3D Printing that was certain to bring his firm additional opportunities, and concerned as to how his company could maintain their broad leadership position as new competitors began to join the fray. As the managing partner began thinking about what to do next, he wondered whether he should ...Starting at €8.20
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Making Waves in Rural Kenya
Sebastian Herrmann; Glenn Brophey; Denyse Lafrance-HorningCase IVEY-9B09A015-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe developers of a simple, inexpensive, locally produced rain water harvesting system tackle the social marketing issues in the undeveloped market of rural Kenya. The benefits of the product are obvious but the poverty levels and entrenched traditions create significant and unique marketing challenges.Starting at €8.20
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Microfinance and the Kipsigis of Southwest Kenya
Glenn Brophey; Robin WiszowatyCase IVEY-9B08M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA group of business students and their professor travel to rural Kenya to work with Free The Children (FTC), an in-situ, non-governmental organization (NGO) that is focused on generational social change through education for children. This Canadian NGO has had considerable success in meeting this original objective and now sees health care and economic development concerns as being the next barriers to expansion of its educational thrust for the ...Starting at €8.20
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Challenging Sports Authority in Puerto Rico
Shirley Ann Molina; Valerie Rivera Lozada; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B15A024-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn 2014, Shooting & Outdoor Distributor (SOD) was a Puerto Rican family-owned wholesale business selling sporting goods for hunting and fishing. After a year of working for the company, the operations manager was confronted with the arrival of a U.S. retail chain, Sports Authority (SA), to the Puerto Rican market. SA carried many sporting goods sold by SOD, as well as a number of brands under exclusive distribution agreements between SOD and its ...Starting at €8.20
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Pan Boricua: Developing a Market Strategy for the Hispanic Market in the United States (Spanish version)
Julia Sagebien; Jennifer Catinchi; Eva Perez; Marisol Perez-Savelli; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B09AS20Entrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyDos inexpertos, pero fuertemente confiado, empresarios hacen frente a los molestias de una nueva empresa: exportando la masa hecho en Puerto Rico a las ciudades en los Estados Unidos donde se encuentran una gran cantidad de inmigrantes puertorriqueños que están deseando nostálgicamente para su querido pan sobao (pan hecho con manteca vegetal). Con millares de puertorriqueños que viven en y/o que se mueven a los Estados Unidos y después de varios ...Starting at €8.20
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A Project Dilemma at Canadian Shield Insurance
Glenn Brophey; Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez; Derek Stacey; David HemsworthCase IVEY-9B11E010-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn market-leading firms, software development is often undertaken by in-house teams to address specific information systems (IS) needs — in part because nothing that fits specific needs is commercially available. These projects often end up taking longer than planned and exceeding ever-growing budgets.In this case, in-house software development of an information system for Canadian Shield Insurance was finally nearing completion (over budget and ...Starting at €8.20
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Trouble in Paradise: Stakeholder Conflict in the Paseo Caribe Project
Gwendolyn Toro; Julia Sagebien; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B10M018-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case centres on the many controversies surrounding the Paseo Caribe real estate development project in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. The project developers had to contend with large demonstrations, civil disobedience, government intervention, legal proceedings and costly delays as a result of allegations that there had been multiple irregularities in the permit-granting processes and that the project had been built on public domain la...Starting at €8.20
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Pan Boricua: Developing a Market Strategy for the Hispanic Market in the United States
Victor Quiñones; Julia Sagebien; Marisol Perez-Savelli; Eva Perez; Jennifer CatinchiCase IVEY-9B09A020-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyTwo inexperienced, but strongly committed, entrepreneurs face the hassles of a new venture: exporting dough from Puerto Rico to cities in the United States with large numbers of Puerto Rican immigrants who are longing nostalgically for their beloved pan sobao (bread made with vegetable shortening). With thousands of Puerto Ricans living in and/or moving to the United States and after several incidents of fraud by partners of the entrepreneurs, th...Starting at €8.20
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Ricky Martin: The Role of Reputation in a Celebrity's Career
Sheila Marie Cruz-Rodriguez; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B14A078-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyGlobally acclaimed singer, actor, author and Grammy Award winner Ricky Martin “decided [on March 29, 2010] to put an end to the hell that was going on inside [his] mind” by using Twitter to openly declare his homosexuality. Issues posed by the revelation included: What options were available to Martin’s management before and after the revelation in order to effectively deal with situations that could have jeopardized Martin’s career and future pr...Starting at €8.20