Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Flashfood.Shop: Self-Service Retailing of Fresh Meals in China
Yibo Lyu; Shaojie Han; Qing Liu; Jingqin SuCase IVEY-9B19M036-EStrategyOn April 1, 2017, Flashfood.Shop, a new brand in self-service retailing of fresh meals, was founded in Dalian, Liaoning province, China. The self-service retail platform provided office workers with affordable and convenient fresh meals 24 hours per day. Flashfood.Shop used intelligent self-catering machines as its physical sales terminals and it used an intelligent self-catering system as its online service interface. By the end of June 2018, Fl...Starting at €8.20
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HY Capital: Making Venture Capital Investment Decisions in a Changed Environment
Yibo Lyu; Yushan Zhou; Shaojie Han; Binyuan He; Zewei Yu; Jianfeng HuCase IVEY-9B19N023-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceAt the end of 2017, the director of HY Capital, was facing an investment decision. Two years earlier, HY Capital had invested in Dalian New Vision Media Co. Ltd. (New Vision), a company working on augmented reality products for early childhood education.Starting at €8.20
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Dalian Zhangzidao Chuo Cold Logistics Co., Ltd.: Vertical Integration - Teaching Note
Yibo Lyu; Shaojie Han; Wei Liu; Jingqin SuTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M010-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M010.Starting at €0.00
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Grupo Vidawa: Rethinking a Freemium Business Model - Teaching Note
Liliana Lopez JimenezTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M143-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M143.Starting at €0.00
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IDL: Enabling the Conventional Retail Industry
Yibo Lyu; Lining Bao; Qing Liu; Yushan Zhou; Shaojie Han; Liangqi Xu; Jianen Sun; Chun Kong AuCase IVEY-9B20A042-EMarketingIDL Innovation Hong Kong Co. Ltd. (IDL) was a well-known interior design company specializing in commercial retail centres. The design company’s goal was to help its partners create more value by presenting effective interior design. However, with the risStarting at €8.20
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1-888-Junk-Van
Derrick Neufeld; Liliana Lopez JimenezCase IVEY-9B11E025-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementThe case describes the selection of an information technology (IT) product to support the operations of 1-888-Junk-Van, a small waste-collection business. Marcus Kingo, the business owner, has five alternatives from which to choose: a database upgrade, contracting out development of a new software application, using Google Docs, using an online tool framed as Platform as a Service (PaaS), or implementing a small-business enterprise resource-plann...Starting at €8.20
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1-888-Junk-Van (Spanish version)
Derrick Neufeld; Liliana Lopez JimenezCase IVEY-9B11ES025Entrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementThe case describes the selection of an information technology (IT) product to support the operations of 1-888-Junk-Van, a small waste-collection business. Marcus Kingo, the business owner, has five alternatives from which to choose: a database upgrade, contracting out development of a new software application, using Google Docs, using an online tool framed as Platform as a Service (PaaS), or implementing a small-business enterprise resource-plann...Starting at €8.20
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Dalian Venture Workshop Technology Service Co., Ltd.: Business Incubation in China
Yibo Lyu; Shaojie Han; Qing Liu; Jingqin Su; Jianfeng HuCase IVEY-9B18M184-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFounded in 2012 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, Dalian Venture Workshop Technology Service Co., Ltd. (Venture Workshop) was a business incubator that provided early stage start-ups with incubation and investment services. In 2014, China identified VeStarting at €8.20
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Diana Uribe: Fighting the Viral Spread of Fake News
Liliana Lopez JimenezCase IVEY-9B18M123-EStrategyOn August 31, 2016, a well-respected and highly influential cultural broadcaster and entrepreneur in Colombia was the subject of a fake news attack. A message started spreading over the WhatsApp messaging service wrongfully attributing to her a vociferous statement opposing the Colombian peace-making process. On September 2, 2016, she produced a disconfirming video, in which she made it clear that the statement was not written by her; that it did...Starting at €8.20
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Weibo: The Chinese Social Media Business Model
Yibo Lyu; Shaojie Han; Qing Liu; Jingqin Su; Jianen SunCase IVEY-9B19M081-EStrategyIn 2012, Sina Weibo stood out from competing microblogging products and developed into the largest social media platform in China. However, in 2013, competition from WeChat, a lack of high-quality content, and the exposure of an excessive number of fake aStarting at €8.20