Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Ohmycake.in: Scaling Up by Scaling Back
Nobin Thomas; Abhilash G. NambudiriCase IVEY-9B18M201-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2017, the online cake company Ohmycake.in, which was started two years earlier by a young entrepreneur in Kerala, India, ran into trouble after a series of successful experiments. Adding to the company’s problems, customers were becoming more dStarting at €8.20
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Infibeam Internet Retailing
Piyush Kumar Sinha; Barbara L. Marcolin; Varsha Verma; Nupur GuptaCase IVEY-9B12M094-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case focuses on Infibeam, a small, new e-commerce company in India, as an illustration of innovative B2B contractual agreements that enabled it to acquire a significant customer base at a very low cost. However, it must now develop innovative strategies for marketing communication, customer value proposition and a new IT e-commerce rural platform in order to achieve its required growth estimates and raise capital for a new project in coopera...Starting at €8.20
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HuStream Technologies Interactive Video
Barbara L. Marcolin; Kathryn Brohman; Ning Su; Norine Webster; Laura MarcolinCase IVEY-9B14E008-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyA management consulting team has been hired to advise HuStream Technologies on a new business model and target market. HuStream operates a service-based business model, providing customers with fully produced interactive video content. In the founders’ efforts to transition to a product-based business, they have built a cloud-based platform to provide easy accessibility to their company’s products and services. Using that platform, clients can pr...Starting at €8.20
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HCL Technologies
Barbara L. Marcolin; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B12E004-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2011, HCLT ERS, a division of HCL Technologies, a global IT services corporation headquartered in New Delhi, India, had to devise next year’s plan for the Engineering Out Of The Box (EOOTB) business concept that it had initiated in 2009. EOOTB had facilitated the division’s ability to create “16 productized solutions” and to engage customers in new revenue services. The productized solutions were heavily reliant upon IT platform-based solution...Starting at €8.20
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From Mug to Mike: The Scale-Up Puzzle
Abhilash G. Nambudiri; Minnu F PynadathCase IVEY-W31817-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySunil Koshy considered himself a “passionpreneur;” after quitting a well-paid job as a software engineer, he chased his passion for singing and founded From Mug to Mike (FMTM), a start-up that helped amateur singers polish their singing skills. Stemming from Koshy’s passion, FMTM had evolved into a business venture with viable products, services, and a scalable business model. To scale up FMTM, Koshy needed to decide whether the business should t...Starting at €8.20
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ExerciseApp
Barbara L. Marcolin; Ning Su; Corey RochkinCase IVEY-9B13E001-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyThe CEO and founder of ExerciseApp decided to take the plunge and spec out the features of his new iPhone mobile application and supporting website. He planned for ExerciseApp to stream exercise workouts from pro-athletes to followers who wanted to “Train. Play. Be. Like the Pros” and get an edge to their workouts. As he envisioned the application, he realized he would need a lot of help with the technology and the setup of this entrepreneurial v...Starting at €8.20
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MedicalTech: Co-creating Value with Customers
Barbara L. Marcolin; Sasha Romano LopezCase IVEY-9B11E037-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyThe head of research and development at MedicalTech, a new manufacturer of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coils and software, had just met with MedicalTech's founder and chief executive officer (CEO). They had been discussing the technology development requirements decided so far in their attempts to build MedicalTech's first technology offering for diagnosing cancer. The head of research and development needed to advise the CEO regarding the b...Starting at €8.20
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Ohmycake.in: Scaling Up by Scaling Back - Teaching Note
Nobin Thomas; Abhilash G. NambudiriTeaching Note IVEY-8B18M201-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B18M201.Starting at €0.00
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From Mug to Mike: The Scale-Up Puzzle - Teaching Note
Abhilash G. Nambudiri; Minnu F PynadathTeaching Note IVEY-W31818-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product W31817.Starting at €0.00