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T-Mobile in 2013: The Un-Carrier, Teaching Note
Beshears, John; Gino, FrancescaTeaching Note HBS-916048-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 916043. By 2013, the U.S. wireless industry was in the midst of a costly transition. As consumers began to embrace more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data services. T-Mobile, the smallest of the four major carriers, lacked the scale of its competitors and risked falling further behind in the contest for market ...Starting at €0.00
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WestJet: A New Social Media Strategy
Derrick Neufeld; Faizal Jiwani; Sarah Hardy; Peter TongCase IVEY-9B16E019-EInformation TechnologiesIn October 2015, WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, needed to expand its social media presence. The vice-president of marketing and communications and the manager of social media were excited about the prospects of continuing to grow their customer base and reach even more guests through social media. WestJet had developed a highly successful approach to managing social media, and now the two executives were faced with two new possible soc...Starting at €8.20
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Nuway Software
Derrick Neufeld; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B09E005-EEntrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesThe founder and president of Nuway Software (Nuway) must determine the pricing strategy for their new internally-developed mobile software product, Nulogic. Nuway develops custom mobile software applications that provide great competitive advantage to each of their customers; no two software modules it develops are similar. Nuway is now ready to market Nulogic as a stand-alone product and has identified three unique customer segments: Corporate i...Starting at €8.20
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Keda’s SAP Implementation (Spanish version)
Derrick Neufeld; Yulin Fang; Huaiqing Wang; Terrance FungCase IVEY-9B11ES001Information Technologies, StrategyKeda, a manufacturer of large-scale machinery in China, had successfully deployed an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that was paying for itself through more efficient inventory management. This was significant because despite China’s increasing demand for ERP systems, an estimated 80 per cent of ERP implementation efforts failed in the country. The vice general manager of Keda had a large backlog of other information technology projec...Starting at €8.20
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Mafiaboy
Derrick NeufeldCase IVEY-9B10E020-EInformation TechnologiesThis case opens with a fictitious yet common situation of a corporate executive who is uncertain how to respond to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. It provides some anecdotes and statistics relating to DDoS attacks, and then briefly tells the story of Michael Calce, nicknamed Mafiaboy, who as a young teen effectively launched attacks that shut down companies such as Amazon, CNN, Dell, eBay and Yahoo! The basic DDoS process is explai...Starting at €8.20
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Golfgamez (B): Funding a Digital Startup
Derrick NeufeldCase IVEY-9B13E011-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThis is a supplement to 9B13E010.Starting at €5.74
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Mustang Music (A)
Derrick NeufeldCase IVEY-9B10E009-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipMustang Music (A) and (B) cases introduces students to data modeling, database implementation and database querying.Starting at €8.20
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Aztek Chocolate Studio: Accounting System Software
Derrick NeufeldCase IVEY-9B14E004-EEntrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesIn late 2013, the founder of Aztek Chocolate, a candy manufacturer, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is confronted with making an accounting system selection decision. He has two traditional options — outsourcing to an accounting or bookkeeping firm versus using an internally developed spreadsheet or commercial software package — as well as a third “hybrid” option — using an accounting cloud, or Software-as-a-Service, service provider. Sales are starting t...Starting at €8.20
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Video-Cats: Wireframing and Prototyping
Derrick NeufeldCase IVEY-9B13E012-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThe owners of a wedding videography startup, which offers three levels of services at different price points, are looking to hire someone to design a website prototype for the fledgling business. They believe the website should allow their customers to scroll through the various services included with each package, display standard prices and provide an order/contact form. They are unsure if they expect their customers to access the site using mo...Starting at €8.20
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Aviron Interactive Inc.: Bootstrapping a Gamification Fitness Startup
Derrick Neufeld; Ning Su; Ken Mark; Vy Hoang; Michael LaPalme; Angela VavitsasCase IVEY-9B19E003-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2016, Toronto entrepreneur Andy Hoang was working to launch a new business, Aviron Interactive Inc., a developer and marketer of interactive rowing machines that would use gamification to allow users to work out with others through a virtual connection and an innovative, remotely-activated resistance adjustor. Hoang wanted to create the new business by wrapping an outsourced services model around a central core that included the key business i...Starting at €8.20