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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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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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Financing Anghami's Growth
Nanda, Ramana; Kuzucu, ErenCase HBS-819033-EEntrepreneurshipIn December 2012, less than two years into the founding of their music-streaming platform Anghami, cofounders Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun found themselves evaluating an unorthodox term sheet. Habib and Maroun needed to make a decision vis- -vis the proposal put forth by the MBC Group, the region's largest media network. The offer was a media-for-equity deal, which would provide Anghami with advertising towards the media giant's millions of viewer...Starting at €8.20
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Instabeat - One More Lap, Teaching Note
Ghosh, Shikhar; Bagai, ShwetaTeaching Note HBS-820067-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 820005.Starting at €0.00
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IXSIR Winery of Lebanon
Marina Apaydin; Sarah Jane Noujeim; Claire Chalouhi; Abdul Sattar OuaydaCase IVEY-9B17M044-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn the summer of 2016, the general manager of IXSIR Winery of Lebanon (IXSIR)—a young winery in Lebanon that offered customers a new level of quality by producing wine from a mixture of grapes harvested from different terroirs—received news of a bomb striking Beirut. IXSIR had been facing challenges competing in the unstable and risky local market, and the general manager realized that the bombing signalled rougher economic times ahead and likely...Starting at €8.20
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Profico: The Way Forward
Marina Apaydin; Narine BolghourjianCase IVEY-9B19M096-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyProfico Trading and Contracting Company WLL, an aluminum and glazing contracting company in Lebanon, assembled and installed aluminum and glazing doors and windows and aluminum composite panels for local construction projects. The company's revenues had increased over the years, but over the previous four years, revenues had declined, largely as a result of regional political turmoil that affected the construction industry. The management team wa...Starting at €8.20
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Michel Nassif Et Fils: Succeeding Generations
Randa Salamoun; Lina TannirCase IVEY-9B15M066-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE – This case won the MENA Business Cases category at the 2015 EFMD Case Writing Competition. In September 2014, the chief executive officer of Michel Nassif et Fils, an importer and producer of food and printed goods headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, is trying to figure out what decisions he needs to take to ensure the development of the company that had been founded by his grandfather a century ago. At the age of 48, right afte...Starting at €8.20
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Arcenciel: Transforming Threats into Opportunities
Bettina Bastian; Randa SalamounCase IVEY-9B17M041-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAs a Lebanese non-governmental organization, Arcenciel (AeC) had successfully created several sustainable development programs and projects that addressed the needs of marginalized populations in Lebanon’s society. At the same time, AeC based its activities on an economic strategy that guaranteed financial independence from donations and public funding. This social entrepreneur had been able to develop and adjust its strategy in a very challengin...Starting at €8.20
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Château Qanafar: Starting and Operating a Lebanese Vineyard
Bettina Bastian; Randa SalamounCase IVEY-9B17M002-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyChâteau Qanafar was a small Lebanese winery, operating as a family business since its inception in 2005. By 2015, Château Qanafar had managed to produce one of the best wines of the Middle East and obtain international acclaim. However, despite this success, the company’s founder understood that the general business environment in Lebanon was characterized by many uncertainties related to a weak institutional environment and high political and ec...Starting at €8.20
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Instabeat - One More Lap
Ghosh, Shikhar; Tempest Keller, Nicole; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-820005-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based entrepreneur gained initial traction soon after founding her company Instabeat in September 2011, winning $150,000 in prize money from business plan competitions and raising $100,000 from a lo...Starting at €8.20