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Coral Divers Resort
Paul W. Beamish; Kent E. Neupert; Andreas SchotterCase IVEY-9B08M041-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe owner of a small scuba diving operation in the Bahamas is reassessing his strategic direction in the light of declining revenues. Among the changes being considered are shark diving, family diving, exit, and shifting operations to another Caribbean location. These options are not easily combined, nor are they subtle. The case is intended to provide a work-out on the relationship between strategy, organization and performance, and how changes ...Starting at €8.20
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Deep Roots Distillery - Teaching Note
Paul W. BeamishTeaching Note IVEY-8B16M032-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching Note for product 9B16M032.Starting at €0.00
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Canadian Solar
Paul W. Beamish; Jordan MitchellCase IVEY-9B10M019-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn late September 2009, the CEO of the Nasdaq-traded solar cell and module manufacturer, Canadian Solar, was at an inflection point in the formation of its international strategy. The company had experienced dynamic growth during the past five years buoyed largely by aggressive incentive schemes to install solar photovoltaic (PV) technology in Germany and Spain. The credit crunch, coupled with changes in government incentive programs, caused a ma...Starting at €8.20
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Cameron Auto Parts: Early Internationalization
Paul W. Beamish; Harold CrookellCase IVEY-9B16M043-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case is about a small American auto parts producer trying to diversify its way out of dependence on the major automakers in 2013. A promising new product is developed and the company gets a chance to license it to a Scottish manufacturer. The issue of whether to license or go it alone in international markets is central to the case. A full class sequel to this case is available, titled Cameron Auto Parts: Joint Ventures, Licensing or Exporti...Starting at €8.20
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Tavazo Co.
Paul W. Beamish; Majid Eghbali-ZarchCase IVEY-9B10M093-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn June 2010, Naser Tavazo, one of the three owner/manager brothers of both Tavazo Iran Co. and Tavazo Canada Co., was considering the company's future expansion opportunities, including further international market entry. Candidate cities of interest were Los Angeles, Dubai and other cities with a high Iranian diaspora. Another question facing the owners was where to focus on the value chain. Should the family business use its limited resources ...Starting at €8.20
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VariCut's Strategic Choice
Dezhi Chen; Youping Chen; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B15M116-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn March 2015, the managing director of VariCut Electronics Component Company in Shanghai, China, was contemplating whether the company should shift its business focus from label printing to label printers. Because of fierce competition and a slowdown in the company’s 12-year-old label manufacturing business, the company was finding its competitive advantage hard to sustain. In contrast, the company’s emerging business of producing label printers...Starting at €8.20
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Victoria Heavy Equipment Limited
Tom A. Poynter; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B08M037-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyVictoria Heavy Equipment (Victoria) was a family owned and managed firm which had been led by an ambitious, entrepreneurial chief executive officer who now wanted to take a less active role in the business. Victoria had been through two reorganizations in recent years, which contributed to organizational and strategic issues which would need to be addressed by a new president.Starting at €8.20
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Prince Edward Island Preserve Company: Turnaround
Paul W. Beamish; Nathaniel LuptonCase IVEY-9B08M049-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn April 2008, Bruce MacNaughton, president of Prince Edward Island Preserve Co. Ltd. (P.E.I. Preserves), was focused on turnaround. The company he had founded in 1985 had gone into receivership in May 2007. Although this had resulted in losses for various mortgage holders and unsecured creditors, MacNaughton had been able to buy back his New Glasgow shop/cafe, the adjacent garden property and inventory, and restart the business. He now needed a ...Starting at €8.20
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EBS in China
Lin Lu; Paul W. Beamish; Jiao Bo; Jiajia LuCase IVEY-9B16M215-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyEnvironmental & Best Safety (EBS) China was the subsidiary of an American mid-sized firm in the safety products and services industry. Between 2000 and 2015, it had employed at different points a variety of strategic approaches to the Chinese market, including local market exploration and learning, autonomous local research and development (R&D), the transfer of local knowledge to centralized R&D, and the return of localization. The global busine...Starting at €8.20
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Sher-Wood Hockey Sticks: Global Sourcing
Paul W. Beamish; Megan (Min) ZhangCase IVEY-9B12M003-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2011, the senior executives of the venerable Canadian hockey stick manufacturer Sher-Wood Hockey were considering whether to move the remainder of the company’s high-end composite hockey and goalie stick production to its suppliers in China. Sher-Wood had been losing market share as retail prices continued to fall. Would outsourcing the production of the iconic, Canadian-made hockey sticks to China help Sher-Wood to boost demand signific...Starting at €8.20