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Sanofi Pasteur: The Dengue Vaccine Dilemma
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Bloom, David E.; Dessain, Vincent; Billaud, EmilieCase HBS-514074-EIn 2012, Sanofi Pasteur was racing to develop a vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, and was evaluating this product in a Phase IIb trial conducted with school children in Thailand. But while the candidate vaccine met the high safety expectations and a good balanced immune answer, it had a proof of efficacy of only 30%, far below the 70% mark the company had targeted. Guillaume Leroy, vice president of the Dengue Company at Sanofi Pa...Starting at €8.20
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Líbano: la reconstrucción económica de la posguerra
Talamàs Vilardaga, Eduard; Rifai, Joanna; Saade, JessicaCase ECON-427EconomicsLíbano -un país mediterráneo de casi siete millones de habitantes- sufre una de las peores crisis económicas jamás vistas en el mundo. La situación combina una severa crisis bancaria, de deuda y cambiaria con la crisis de los refugiados sirios, la pandemia de COVID-19, las secuelas de una explosión catastrófica en el puerto de Beirut y una parálisis política extrema. La libra libanesa -vinculada oficialmente al dólar estadounidense desde 1998- se...Starting at €8.20
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JOG Sports: Sports Apparel and Ice Hockey in Thailand
Andrew Karl DeliosCase IVEY-9B13M138-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyJOG Sports, a sports apparel and sports marketing business, has crossed the psychologically important threshold of $1 million in annual sales. Although the company was started as a hobby and side interest of the chief executive officer (CEO) and main founder, management of the company soon became his only occupation. The scale of the company increased quickly, with the sports apparel business growing in product lines, geographic scope of sales an...Starting at €8.20
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Maliks: Franchising the Brand
Sana El HajjCase IVEY-9B20M168-EStrategyMaliks, a major stationery retailer and provider of photocopy and printing services, had operated in Beirut, Lebanon, for over 25 years. The company’s founder was considering the most suitable strategy for his goal of 100 branches by 2020. He was assessinStarting at €8.20
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Ministry of Finance, Japan
David M. Currie; Laurel AdamsCase IVEY-9B08M013-EStrategyIn June 1997, the Bank of Thailand must decide whether to continue or to abandon the peg of the baht to the U.S dollar. Recent economic performance in Thailand has caused speculation that the central bank will abandon the currency peg, but the bank's stated policy for many years has been that it will maintain the peg. Background about the Thai economy is presented in the core case, product 9B01M025. Other cases enable students to play roles of im...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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IEC in Sports
Singfat Chu; Josh BurackCase IVEY-9B11E039-ECorporate Governance, StrategyA Stockholm-based sports broadcasting firm with five international offices is facing uncertain contract renewals by its current clients from several geographic territories. It must determine the likelihood of profitability if it purchases the global broadcasting rights of the Portuguese Soccer League (Liga Zon Sagres) for the upcoming 2011-2012 season.Starting at €8.20
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Arcenciel: Bottle Caps for Wheelchairs
Bettina Bastian; Kim Issa; Sasha Larnaud MourguesCase IVEY-9B19A031-EMarketing, StrategyIn 2015, the director of the Lebanese non-governmental organization Arcenciel felt a surge of pride knowing that his organization's bottle caps project had created grassroots awareness of the importance of recycling. In recent years, Arcenciel had grown fStarting at €8.20
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Black Canyon Coffee
Brian K. BoydCase IVEY-9B11M074-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case focuses on Black Canyon Coffee, as it begins to develop its strategy for the firm’s second decade. Founded in 1993, Black Canyon had grown to become the largest chain of coffee houses in Thailand in 2003. Over its first decade, it grew from a single location to 78 retail outlets, serving a mix of hot and cold coffee beverages, as well as Asian cuisine. Thus far, the company had been profitable, and had managed the threat posed by local ...Starting at €8.20
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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