Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Calle 13: The Urban Band Route to Fame (Spanish version)
Valerie Rivera Lozada; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B13AS035MarketingA Latin-based urban music ensemble, Calle 13, shapes its art form to redefine the rap/reggaeton scene that is predominant in Latin America. This redefinition includes political and social backlash towards the leaders of various countries, including the band members’ homeland of Puerto Rico. While the group’s political and social criticism results in some welcome exposure for the musicians, it also results in cancelled shows. The group wants to ex...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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Calle 13: The Urban Band Route to Fame
Valerie Rivera Lozada; Victor QuiñonesCase IVEY-9B13A035-EMarketingA Latin-based urban music ensemble, Calle 13, shapes its art form to redefine the rap/reggaeton scene that is predominant in Latin America. This redefinition includes political and social backlash towards the leaders of various countries, including the band members’ homeland of Puerto Rico. While the group’s political and social criticism results in some welcome exposure for the musicians, it also results in cancelled shows. The group wants to ex...Starting at €8.20
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Harley-Davidson Inc.: Dividend Discount Valuation - Teaching Note
Craig Dunbar; Felipe RestrepoTeaching Note IVEY-8B20N012-EFinanceTeaching note for product 9B20N012.Starting at €0.00
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NorthCentral Bank: Navigating the Challenges of Fintechs, Neobanks, and Cryptocurrencies
Hubert Pun; Felipe Restrepo; Dollar LuoCase IVEY-W33866-EFinance, Information TechnologiesJonathan Gray, the head of Digital Assets at NorthCentral Bank, was tasked with deciding how the bank should approach the growing demand for cryptocurrency (crypto) investment products and services. As the fintech industry continued to grow rapidly and younger digital consumers expressed a desire for crypto-friendly products, the bank had to decide how to proceed. Gray considered three options: maintaining the status quo and not offering crypto p...Starting at €8.20
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Harley-Davidson Inc.: Dividend Discount Valuation
Craig Dunbar; Felipe RestrepoCase IVEY-9B20N012-EFinance, StrategyIn late July 2018, a buy-side analyst at Dimensional Wealth Group (DWG), a privately owned investment management firm, needed to decide whether DWG should increase, decrease, or not change its position in Harley-Davidson Inc. (Harley-Davidson) stock. DWG had been bullish on its Harley-Davidson stock, leading DWG to increase its position in Harley-Davidson substantially over time. However, Harley-Davidson was currently facing several challenges, w...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