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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Goodbaby Group: The Upfront Warehouse Decision
Huan Zheng; Yuanzheng Ma; Du Chen; Stephan VachonCase IVEY-9B20D018-EService and Operations Management, StrategyJinrun Li, chief operating officer for Goodbaby Group (Goodbaby), had to make a decision about opening a new store in a high-end mall in Shanghai, China. Goodbaby was going to manage the store for one of its clients, who had its own specifications for theStarting at €8.20
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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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Carestream Health Inc.: When Disruption Hits a Lean Supply Chain
Stephan Vachon; Zhiduan Xu; De GaoCase IVEY-9B19D023-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn October 2014, Carestream Health Inc. (Xiamen) (CHX) was faced with a supply chain disruption caused by a labour dispute involving most of the ports on the west coast of the United States. The work-to-rule strike was having a considerable impact on theStarting at €8.20
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Sears Canada (A)
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13D014-EService and Operations ManagementSears Canada’s associate vice-president of sustainability faces dilemmas in executing a strategy to reduce the retailer’s carbon footprint. He needs to integrate the concept of sustainability into the company’s larger corporate objectives, drive the concept in individual business units and identify the metrics for tracking the progress of reducing Sears Canada’s carbon footprint.The (B) case, 9B13D015, is positioned two years later, when the asso...Starting at €8.20
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Sonnen Trucking Company
Stephan Vachon; Tessa WeidnerCase IVEY-9B15D005-EService and Operations ManagementIn January 2013, the new chief executive officer of the Sonnen Trucking Company, a family-owned business, is considering how to reduce fleet insurance costs. As profit margins are very tight and continuing to shrink, she has to think about variables she can control in order to affect the bottom line positively. Insurance costs are the logical item to address since they are based on the company’s safety and accident records and the extent that it ...Starting at €8.20
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Supply Chain Strategy at TCL Multimedia
Yinan Qi; Stephan VachonCase IVEY-9B15D015-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe chief executive officer of TCL Multimedia, a global TV manufacturer based in China, looked at the company’s first-half financial results with some concern. The results did not meet his expectations, and the company had lost market shares, both in China and internationally. Although he was confident that the new, recently adopted corporate strategy would enable a better future positioning of the company, he knew that without the appropriate su...Starting at €8.20
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Benevento Foods: When the Rubber Hits the Dough
David Wood; Stephan Vachon; Micheline SinghCase IVEY-9B15D014-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyFor the past 30 years, the president of Benevento Foods, a food processor located in northern New York State, has overseen unprecedented growth. In June 2014, the family-owned company has 90 full-time employees and provides baking mixes and bases to both small stand-alone bakeries and national grocery chains across the United States. It has plans to expand distribution to Mexico and Japan and to develop new product lines, especially for gluten-fr...Starting at €8.20