Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Aditya–The Solar Shop: Social Entrepreneurship at the Crossroads - Teaching Note
Nobin Thomas; Joshy JosephTeaching Note IVEY-8B21M069-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B21M069.Starting at €0.00
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Cyberattack: The Maersk Global Supply-Chain Meltdown - Teaching Note
David T.A. Wesley; Luis Alfonso Dau; Alexandra RothTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M022-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M022.Starting at €0.00
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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-9B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementThe senior vice-president for sustainable investing at the U.S.-based Pax World Funds, a leader in socially responsible investing, needed to identify and invest in companies for the company's Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, an investment fund that promoted labour rights through gender equality. The fund had more than US$200 million in assets under management, a 25 per cent one-year rate of return, and a three-year annual rate of retu...Starting at €8.20
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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era - Teaching Note
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19C013.Starting at €0.00
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Masschallenge, Inc.: Launching a Non-profit Business Accelerator (A)
Gordon K. Adomdza; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13M013-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyMassChallenge Inc. is a large non-profit startup accelerator that connects new ventures with other stakeholders within an established business ecosystem. For this new company to engage stakeholders in the numbers envisaged and create a crowd-sourced deal management system, the founders need to develop a model that brings in as many quality or attractive startups as possible. Instead of taking equity in participating ventures as traditional accele...Starting at €8.20
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Launch of the Ford Fiesta Diesel: The World's Most Efficient Car
Francis Spital; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B10M040-EStrategyThe case describes the challenges faced by Ford and other automobile manufacturers in an era of declining oil reserves and volatile fuel prices. The Ford diesel decision seems to reflect classic thinking constrained by mental models that were developed in a different world. Diesels constitute over 50 per cent of automobile sales in Europe, because fuel is extremely expensive there. If fuel gets extremely expensive in the United States, one would ...Starting at €8.20
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Power Gig: The Rise (and Fall) of Music Games
David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13A011-EMarketingThe chairman and chief executive officer of a manufacturer of entry-level musical instruments decides to take advantage of the popularity of music video games by creating a gaming division. After spending $30 million on product development, the company launches its first music video game just as the market for this subgenre has fallen into a steep decline. The case discusses the specific attributes of this music video game that may have doomed it...Starting at €8.20
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Knauf Gips Iran and the Green Revolution (B)
David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B14M092-EStrategySupplement to 9B14M091.Starting at €5.74
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ServiceForce: Scaling up Financing
Hitesh J Shukla; Ashutosh DashCase IVEY-9B13N019-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceThe founder of ServiceForce, a company that provides repair and maintenance for motorized two-wheel vehicles in India, has a dilemma about whether he should sell the rights of his franchisee business, join hands with a venture capitalist, borrow money for capacity building or see the business grow through franchising. The start-up was initiated with his own money and family investment. A mere 18 months has shown great success with two service sta...Starting at €8.20
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Ohmycake.in: Scaling Up by Scaling Back
Nobin Thomas; Abhilash G. NambudiriCase IVEY-9B18M201-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2017, the online cake company Ohmycake.in, which was started two years earlier by a young entrepreneur in Kerala, India, ran into trouble after a series of successful experiments. Adding to the company’s problems, customers were becoming more dStarting at €8.20