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Art Feeds: Scaling a Non-profit Organization
Colleen Sharen; Tess WiddifieldCase IVEY-9B14M159-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early June 2013, the executive director of Art Feeds, which provided therapeutic art and creative education to school children to help them achieve mental and emotional well-being, needed to make a recommendation to her board about whether to expand the current operations in Joplin, Missouri, to Moore, Oklahoma, after a devastating tornado in Moore. She needed to determine whether the organization had the resources required to expand successfu...Starting at €8.20
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B/E Aerospace, Inc.
Wesley MarpleCase IVEY-9B09N010-EFinanceB/E Aerospace, Inc., (BEAV) the market leader for cabin interior products for commercial aircraft and business jets, and a leading aftermath distributor of aerospace fasteners, was reviewing its financial strategy. BEAV was a heavily leveraged company in the cyclical aircraft products industry. Its business had been threatened by the terrorist act of September 11, 2001, the epidemic of SARS in 2003 and the war in Iraq in 2004. These events discou...Starting at €8.20
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Audio Advice: From Retail to E-Tail
Michael A. StankoCase IVEY-9B17A036-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingAudio Advice was a brick-and-mortar audio specialty retailer with two stores in North Carolina. Traditionally, audiophile components were only sold through specialty stores. However, this practice was shifting, with a growing portion of sales occurring online. Audio Advice wanted to capture a portion of this growing channel, so started online as an Amazon Marketplace seller. Though this channel resulted in quick revenue growth without a great dea...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (E)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023E-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €5.74
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The Pebble Mine (E): Rio Tinto
Alan Krause; Lisa JohnsonCase IVEY-9B16M049E-EStrategyThis is a supplement to The Pebble Mine (A) 9B16M049A. It takes the perspective of Rio Tinto.Starting at €5.74
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West Paw Design: B Corp Certification and Growth
Edward Gamble; Peter W. Moroz; Simon Parker; Jackie Art; Kelli GoodyCase IVEY-9B16M193-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2016, the founder and chief executive officer of West Paw Design (WPD) was faced with a growth dilemma: how could he align WPD’s socially responsible ethos with his desire to expand business activities in the growing pet products market? Based in Bozeman, Montana, WPD developed, manufactured, and distributed pet products. The company was a certified “B Corporation,” meaning its social and environmental credentials had been verified by an exter...Starting at €8.20
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Dental Associates of Northern Virginia (B)
Marie E. MattaCase IVEY-9B10D018-EService and Operations ManagementThis case is a supplement to Dental Associates of Northern Virginia (A).Starting at €5.74
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Dental Associates of Northern Virginia (A)
Marie E. MattaCase IVEY-9B10D017-EService and Operations ManagementDental Associates of Northern Virginia is one of the largest dental networks in northern Virginia. In this series of two cases, the head administrator must choose between keeping up with new technology by investing in innovative all-porcelain crown-making machines or holding onto a strategy of waiting and seeing. This choice also aligns with the head administrator making a larger decision of whether to enhance the core competency of his network b...Starting at €8.20
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Belmont Abbey College: Strategy Formulation in Turbulent Times
Roger Anderson; Michael A. RobertoCase IVEY-9B16M083-EStrategyBelmont Abbey College was on the verge of closing when a new president took office in the spring of 2004. Enrolment at the private liberal arts college had dropped to just over 500 students, and net revenues were insufficient to support ongoing operations. Belmont Abbey College was not alone in facing dire financial prospects, however. Higher education in general confronted an array of challenges due to dramatically escalating costs and a signifi...Starting at €8.20
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Valuing Wal-Mart 2010
Stephen R. Foerster; James E. Hatch; Cyrus ZahediCase IVEY-9B11N004-EFinanceAn equity analyst uses a variety of methods to value Wal-Mart shares with a view to making a buy/sell or hold recommendation for the stock. Her key task is to use an intrinsic value approach to price the shares and to then compare the resulting price with the price at which the stock is traded in the market.Starting at €8.20