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L'Atelier Art Lounge: Times of Uncertainty
Randa Salamoun; Bettina BastianCase IVEY-9B14M139-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn January 31, 2014, the founder and chief executive officer of L’Atelier Art Lounge, an art workshop with branches in Bahrain and Lebanon, faces numerous challenges: not only whether to grow the business but how to achieve a reasonable work-life balance. Political instability associated with the Arab Spring led her to close one of her shops in Bahrain, but she went ahead with opening a second in Beirut where there are few leisure activities avai...Starting at €8.20
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Cómo atraer ideas al núcleo del negocio
Krawchuk, FredArticle ART-2792Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEl entorno de negocio actual es volátil, incierto, complejo y ambiguo. Ante semejante panorama, los líderes empresariales han de mejorar su capacidad de percepción y respuesta. En concreto, deben adoptar una postura integradora y equilibrar los intereses tanto del "núcleo" como de la "periferia" del negocio, lo que exige resolver las tensiones que se dan entre ideas opuestas y valerse de ellas para innovar. A partir de casos prácticos, investigac...Starting at €8.20
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Taking Ideas From the Edge and Bringing Them Into Your Core
Krawchuk, FredArticle ART-2792-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAs leaders face a global business environment marked by volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions, a new way to sense and respond to the environment is required. Specifically, leaders need to adopt integrative mindsets -- capable of balancing both "core" and "edge" concerns, resolving tensions among opposing ideas and using them to generate innovative outcomes. This article describes the values, attributes, actions and behavior...Starting at €8.20
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2b Design: A Creative Social Business in Lebanon
Dima Jamali; Alexandra TaraziCase IVEY-9B11M097-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe year 2006 marked the beginning of 2b Design, a social business in Lebanon that specialized in creating handmade furniture and decorative pieces. Raja Moubarak and his wife, Benedicte de Blavous, created their business venture around a focused social mission to preserve disappearing art, architecture, and heritage through artistic creations and employing marginalized people, particularly the handicapped and unemployable. By collecting and usin...Starting at €8.20
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Haboydem: A Social Enterprise in the Holy Land
Mark S. SchwartzCase IVEY-9B20M121-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHaboydem was a second hand clothing store in Jerusalem that operated as a social enterprise by hiring and training individuals who were living with mental illness. The two store locations had successfully trained workers, and 70 per cent were able to findStarting at €8.20
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Kaya Skin Clinic: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage with Customers
Kareem Abdul Waheed; Vimi JhamCase IVEY-9B17A022-EMarketing, StrategyKaya Skin Clinic (Kaya) was started in India in 2002. It expanded its operations to the Middle East in 2003. The company’s value proposition was to provide medical advice from a dermatologist, which formed the basis for product and service recommendations that would dramatically improve customers’ skin. The company had worked hard to position the Kaya brand through defined e-marketing and customer relationship management strategies; however, in 2...Starting at €8.20
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Floward
Palepu, Krishna G.; Arora, NamrataCase HBS-124010-EStrategyIn 2022, Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, CEO and co-founder of Floward, an online flower and gifting company established in Kuwait in 2017, contemplated the firm's growth trajectory. Floward, an e-commerce enterprise that offered fresh-cut flowers sourced directly from global growers and had control over the entire delivery chain, had expanded its footprint to 32 cities across nine MENA countries and had ventured into the UK. Witnessing a remarkable CA...Starting at €8.20
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Tatev Revival Project
Marina Apaydin; Rashid El Ayoubi De La Fuente; Raghid Nami; Marwa Hachem; Ralph Khattar; Tamara ZeidanCase IVEY-9B14M151-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPerched on a cliff, the ninth-century Tatev Monastery is one of the most important monasteries in Armenia. A prominent Moscow-based businessman has decided to make it into an accessible and attractive tourist destination. Complicating matters is the region’s significant poverty and inaccessibility due to harsh weather conditions and a lack of proper infrastructure. In addition, shortcomings in hospitality management and training mean that tourist...Starting at €8.20
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Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments (Spanish Version)
Sebenius, James K.; Green, Laurence A.Case HBS-918S14StrategyDespués de un breve resumen de la carrera de Henry A. Kissinger, este caso se describen tres de sus la mayoría de las negociaciones fundamentales: el establecimiento histórico de las relaciones diplomáticas de Estados Unidos con la República Popular de China, la relajación de las tensiones geopolíticas con la Unión Soviética, simbolizado por la firma de el primer Tratado de Limitación de armas estratégicas ( "SAL I"), y la mediación del acuerdo e...Starting at €8.20
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Turkcell
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Wang, Charles C.Y.; Cekin, EselCase HBS-715009-EStrategyThis case centers around the shareholder dispute between three major shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully-functioning board. The battle for control of the Turkish telecom giant led to several years in which the company could not hold annual shareholder meetings, renew its board of directors, or pay dividends, and lacked a board-approved op...Starting at €8.20