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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Infinity Life Insurance Company: Creating an Organization (A)
Meenakshi Aggarwal-Gupta; Amitabha SenguptaCase IVEY-9B16C036-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyInfinity Life Insurance Company was a joint venture between two Indian public sector banks and a U.K.-based insurance firm. The company began its operations in November 2009, as the youngest entrant in the life insurance market in India. Within three years of launching operations, it ranked among the top 10 private firms for new business premiums. When the joint venture project started, the senior leadership group identified numerous challenges a...Starting at €8.20
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Sawchyn Guitars: Can an Old Business Learn New Tricks - Teaching Note
Meredith Woodwark; Matthew WongTeaching Note IVEY-8B13M084-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B13M084.Starting at €0.00
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Helarctos Ventures: Investing in Seed-Stage Start-Ups
Matthew WongCase IVEY-9B19M112-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2016, Canada’s venture capital (VC) investment environment was growing and, as a result, exciting new start-ups were fruitfully collaborating with a sophisticated selection of investors. Ajay Joshi, a partner at Helarctos Ventures (HV), a seed-stStarting at €8.20
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Helarctos Ventures: Investing in Seed-Stage Start-Ups - Teaching Note
Matthew WongTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M112-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M112.Starting at €0.00
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Innovate LLP: Legal Dilemmas in the Start-up World
Matthew Wong; Adrienne Ng; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15M107-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA burgeoning mobile application entrepreneur has developed an interesting potential product with her friends. However, when she encounters an investment opportunity, she decides to seek legal advice for the first time in her business life. As a result of her initial meeting with a lawyer, she realizes how unprepared she is and some of the tough questions that she will need to answer.Starting at €8.20
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Dropbox: Go-To-Market Sales Strategy
Darren Meister; Matthew WongCase IVEY-9B17M053-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn late 2014, Dropbox, the San Francisco-based pioneering cloud-based file storage service, was at an important stage of its growth. Its user base had expanded into hundreds of millions of users globally, and the company was expanding its service offerings to organizations. At the heart of this expansion was the ever-increasing acquisition of customers in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. As Dropbox targeted larger customers, it needed to c...Starting at €8.20
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Sawchyn Guitars: Can an Old Business Learn New Tricks
Meredith Woodwark; Matthew WongCase IVEY-9B13M084-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Laurier School of Business and Economics Best Case Award 2013. The owner of Sawchyn Guitars makes fine handmade acoustic guitars and mandolins. After 40 years of operating from a two-storey backyard garage, he contemplates a shift from a solely custom-order business to a storefront location. Although his custom-order business is still strong, the owner sees the opportunity to realize his dream of providing a full-service musi...Starting at €8.20
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Mobilia Interiors Inc.: The Operations Decision
Eric Morse; Ken Mark; Matthew WongCase IVEY-9B10M047-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2008, the president of Montreal-based retailer of designer furniture store, Mobilia, was reviewing her workload. Mobilia's growth had required she to spend increasing amounts of her time in operations, finance and human resources and significantly less time on sourcing and purchasing. With a doubling of her direct reports in recent years, and recognizing that external hires would soon be necessary to support Mobilia's growth, she wondered ...Starting at €8.20
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Infinity Life Insurance Company: Creating an Organization (B)
Meenakshi Aggarwal-Gupta; Amitabha SenguptaCase IVEY-9B16C037-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategySupplement for product 9B16C036.Starting at €5.74
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Hubtown (A) and (B): Designing and Implementing a Bottom-Up Approach to Performance Management - Teaching Note
Kajari Mukherjee; Meenakshi Aggarwal-GuptaTeaching Note IVEY-8B16C053-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product numbers 9B16C053 and 9B16C054.Starting at €0.00