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SoulCycle
Collis, David J.; Van Den Steen, Eric; Hartman, AshleyCase HBS-717454-EStrategyCo-founders Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler have grown SoulCycle from a business idea in 2006 to a major presence among urban boutique fitness studios in 2015. In March 2015, fitness company Equinox approaches them with an offer to buy them out. Evaluating the offer requires an assessment of market or industry attractiveness and of SoulCycle's (potential) competitive advantage.Starting at €8.20
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Bananas (B)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-712452-EStrategySupplemental Material for Product Number 712451.Starting at €5.74
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Bei Capelli (B)
David Wood; V. Joseph CompeauCase IVEY-9B11M088-EAccounting and Control, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Bei Capelli (A).Starting at €5.74
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Airgas, Inc.
Van Den Steen, Eric; Karl, JasonCase HBS-714517-EStrategyIn 2013, Airgas was the market leader in packaged industrial gas distribution. Recent acquisitions had made it into a larger player in upstream gas production as well, where it competed with Praxair and Air Products. Should Airgas continue building a position in gas production or divest these activities?Starting at €8.20
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Bananas (A)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-712451-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. As owner and CEO, Wim Van der Borght had grown Bananas in 8 years from a 4.5 million euro company into a 40 million euro group of companies with a range of field marketing activities in Belgium and the Netherlands. The core of the group consisted of two companies - Bananas and Demonstrate - which were operationally completely independent and acted as competitors in the marke...Starting at €8.20
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Performance and Value Analysis
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-714490-EStrategyThis note introduces the Performance and Value Analysis (PVA) framework, an integrated framework to analyze strategic performance (i.e., performance corrected for temporary and random effects). This framework (quantitatively) decomposes a firm's performance into 3 consistent parts - common performance, value creation advantage, and bargaining advantage - and then provides frameworks to analyze each.Starting at €8.20
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Akamai's Edge (B)
Van Den Steen, EricCase HBS-712456-EStrategyIn 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading online content delivery network with a 60% market share, needs to decide how to respond to aggressive market entry, whether and how to pursue the explosive growth in online video, and whether to stay with Akamai's distributed network model or move towards its competitors' more centralized design.Starting at €5.74
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Digital Extremes Ltd.
David Wood; V. Joseph CompeauCase IVEY-9B11D002-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementIn March 2005, the president of Digital Extremes in London, Ontario, had just received the latest industry data. The new Xbox 360 was a success and the president knew that Digital Extremes would have to add significant resources and fundamentally change its operations in order to focus on the growing console market rather than on PC gaming. However, given only three months before game development would begin for the next new console, the Playstat...Starting at €8.20
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Tesla Motors, Teaching Note
Van Den Steen, EricTeaching Note HBS-714483-EStrategyTeaching Note for 714413.Starting at €0.00
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CRP Products
David Wood; Robert KlassenCase IVEY-9B11D015-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Service and Operations ManagementBruce Ballantyne had recently joined C.R.P. Products (CRP), a furniture manufacturer in Stratford, Ontario, to help review the company’s operations and assess what changes were necessary to keep up with demand. Although it was early 2011 and the peak season was still four months away, Ballantyne knew that he would have to determine what equipment was needed over the next three weeks to ensure it was delivered and installed before the peak season....Starting at €8.20