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The Toliza Museum of Art
Bilmes, LindaCase HBS-KS1124-EAccounting and ControlJuan Antonio Jimenez is the new Executive Director of the Toliza Museum of Art located in Spain. Jimenez is concerned that the museum lost money in 2008 and wants to understand what the financial results for the current year (2009) are likely to be. The museum has an extensive collection of contemporary and classical art which are shown as Regular Exhibits. The museum also hosts travelling Special Exhibits made up of items loaned by other galleri...Starting at €8.20
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The Dubai International Film Festival, Teaching Note
Deshpande, Rohit; Schwalb, NathanielTeaching Note HBS-519084-EMarketingTeaching note for case 517110.Starting at €0.00
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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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Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand
Avery, JillCase HBS-518066-EMarketingA sixteenth century Renaissance masterpiece, missing for 137 years, believed by many to have been destroyed, and then rediscovered less than a decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting pay too much? Was it real? Did it matter? The sale of Leonardo's painting allows students to reengineer brand equity to understand from what it is derived and ho...Starting at €8.20
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Nike: Changing the Sneakers Game
Elberse, Anita; Aiken, Bryce; Johnson, HowardCase HBS-519039-EKnowledge and CommunicationOur goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike-if Nike didn't already own us. Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel giant Nike, is on the phone with Adam Sussman, Nike's chief digital officer. It is June 1, 2018. Two years earlier, Sussman was behind Nike's push to acquire Virgin Mega, a startup comprised of Faris and his small team, which has since morphed into a studio tha...Starting at €8.20
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Phenicoptere: Taking GLOV Global
Aleksandra WasowskaCase IVEY-9B18M168-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn September 15, 2014, the chief executive officer and the vice-president of the start-up Phenicoptere Ltd. were heading home to Poland. They were returning from a meeting with Armelle S.A. in Marseille, France about selling their innovative product—a makeup-removal glove called GLOV, in Armelle S.A.’s global retail chain. “Isn’t it exciting?” asked the chief executive officer, how often does such a small firm get a chance to talk to the buyers o...Starting at €8.20
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RMS Teleinformatics' CEO - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: When the Interest of Shareholders and the Company Are at Odds
Moszoro, Marian; Jamro, KonradCase E-140-ECorporate GovernanceRMS Teleinformatics is a high-tech, privately owned company which has been active in the Polish market for 18 years, with over 40 million EUR of revenue. Its CEO wants to grow the company and ensure a better future. He therefore negotiates an investment from a private equity fund (PE). However, the owner of the company and the main shareholder (98% of shares) are against PE, because, according to the five-year projections, the company will be bet...Starting at €8.20
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Koita Foods
Applegate, Lynda M.; Ofek, Elie; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-819001-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2018, Mustafa Koita, Founder and CEO of Dubai-based organic milk company Koita has to decide whether or not to pursue an investment from a potential competitor who is coming into his local market.Starting at €8.20