Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Social Advocacy and Guerrilla Marketing: The No Fly List Kids Canada
Fareena SultanCase IVEY-9B19A022-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingA group of Canadian parents wanted the Canadian government to create a redress system related to Canada’s no-fly list, which affected some of their young children whenever they flew. The parents formed an advocacy group called the No Fly List Kids group in 2016, and the group undertook various campaigns—including innovative guerrilla marketing campaigns and uses of both digital and traditional marketing—to highlight the issue of Canadian children...Starting at €8.20
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Aparigraha Yoga: Balancing the Tensions of Sustainable Entrepreneurship - Teaching Note
Kent Walker; Ian StecherTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M021-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M021.Starting at €0.00
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For the Love of Laundry: Comparing Organizational Forms to Scale a Social Enterprise
Kent Walker; Ian Stecher; Francine Schlosser; Megain O'Neil-RenaudCase IVEY-9B18M008-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe London, Ontario, social enterprise For the Love of Laundry was founded in 2014 with the intention of selling homemade, eco-friendly soaps and using the profits to fund free laundry events in the community. In 2017, the founder's goal was to increase the scale of the business and its social impact. She needed to decide how to structure the organization to increase its scale while maintaining control of its strategic direction. The founder comp...Starting at €8.20
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The Detroit River International Crossing Bridge
Kent Walker; Saeed RahmanCase IVEY-9B13M114-EStrategyThis case discusses the only privately owned bridge between Canada and the United States and the possible construction of a second competing and publicly owned bridge. With an upcoming crucial vote on the fate of the public bridge, a Michigan student must decide how to vote and whether she believes that a central public infrastructure should be privately held. She contemplates a deeper issue as well – the fundamental principle of capitalism, a sy...Starting at €8.20
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Rivest Farms: Farming Approaches and the Four Ps
Kent Walker; Ryan DonallyCase IVEY-9B16M011-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHaving previously raised pigs on his farm with unsuccessful results, a Canadian farmer has always dreamed of reintroducing pigs to his cash crop farm. The decision is particularly difficult, as he must consider not only the financial viability of his options, but also the environmental costs, benefits, and the welfare of the animals and workers — collectively referred to as the Four Ps (profits, planet, people, and pigs). Although the market for ...Starting at €8.20
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The Rhinoceros Horn Trade: Considering Legalization
Kent Walker; Kara KristofCase IVEY-9B19M099-EStrategyThe international demand for rhinoceros (rhino) horns was driving the species to near extinction. But an international ban on trading the horns made it lucrative to illegally kill rhinos for their horns, which were traded on the black market. One hotly deStarting at €8.20
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The Rhinoceros Horn Trade: Considering Legalization - Teaching Note
Kent Walker; Kara KristofTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M099-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M099.Starting at €0.00
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Social Advocacy and Guerrilla Marketing: The No Fly List Kids Canada - Teaching Note
Fareena SultanTeaching Note IVEY-8B19A022-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B19A022.Starting at €0.00
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Niantic, Inc.: Pokemon Go and the Rise of Augmented Reality Gaming
David T.A. Wesley; Fareena SultanCase IVEY-9B19A006-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn the summer of 2016, the unprecedented growth of Pokémon GO introduced augmented reality into mainstream gaming. Pokémon GO was developed by San Francisco-based Niantic, Inc. (Niantic), a highly successful spinoff from Google Inc., which partnered with the Japanese video game company Nintendo Co., Ltd. to bring the popular video game franchise into the mobile gaming sphere. Niantic's version included the innovative use of augmented reality, a t...Starting at €8.20
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The 2006 World Cup: Mobile Marketing at adidas (A)
Andy Rohm; Fareena Sultan; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B07A016-EMarketing, StrategyThe manager of Mobile Media for adidas International is debating what to do, given the sparse amount of traffic to date at the adidas FIFA World Cup mobile portal. By February, there had been only 3,000 visits to the mobile site, compared to the one million visits predicted earlier based on the previous success of a Lucas Films Star Wars mobile campaign. Given that the World Cup is a global event viewed by millions of people in person and more th...Starting at €8.20