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Xanadu Farms: Weathering the Uncertainty
Tiffany BayleyExercise IVEY-W33716-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementIn March 2023, two strawberry producers in Ontario, Canada had to decide how many acres to plant with each of four strawberry varieties at Xanadu Farms. They had committed to providing 275,000 pounds of berries to a local independent grocery chain and also required some of their berry crop to make strawberry preserves. Complicating this decision was the impact that weather had on the yield of each type of berry. If the weather reduced the yield, ...Starting at €8.20
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Munroe Homes Incorporated: The Creekside Estates Opportunity
David WoodCase IVEY-W34586-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn December 2022, Jack Munroe, president of Munroe Homes Ltd. (Munroe), is trying to determine if his firm should take on a new development called Creekside Estates near Caledon Village, Ontario. Munroe began as a builder of modest homes on a large scale; the Creekside Estates opportunity involved developing high-end custom homes. Jack’s decision will have a significant effect on Munroe’s future strategy. Munroe can stay within its comfort zone a...Starting at €8.20
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Forecasting and revenue management at Balearic Airlines
Markakis, Mihalis G.Case OIT-34-EService and Operations ManagementBalearic Airlines operates an afternoon flight from Barcelona to Mallorca on a daily basis. The company issues two types of tickets for this flight, Priority and standard Economy ones. There is typically high demand for Economy tickets from price-sensitive segments of the market, which creates the need to protect a certain number of seats in each flight for the more profitable Priority passengers that seek to purchase tickets closer to the date o...Starting at €8.20
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How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create--or Destroy--Your Company's Strategy
Bower, Joseph L.; Gilbert, ClarkArticle HBS-R0702C-EStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Senior executives have long been frustrated by the disconnection between the plans and strategies they devise and the actual behavior of the managers throughout the company. This article approaches the problem from the ground up, recognizing that every time a manag...Starting at €8.20
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Oil and Wasser (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Reimus, Byron; Bruner, Robert F.; Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John; Pragnell, Michael; Schweiger, DavidArticle HBS-R0405A-EStrategyIt was supposed to be an amicable "merger of equals," an example of European togetherness, a synergistic deal that would create the world's second-largest consumer foods company out of two former competitors. But the marriage of entrepreneurial powerhouse Royal Biscuit and the conservative, family-owned Edeling GmbH is beginning to look overly ambitious. Integration planning is way behind schedule. Investors seem wary. But for Royal Biscuit HR he...Starting at €8.20
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SENS Foods: Scaling Up Sustainable Cricket Protein
Timea Križová, Ladislav Tyll, Mohit SrivastavaCase IVEY-W34548-EStrategyThe founders of SENS Foods (SENS), a Czech sustainable-food small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), wanted to expand the business beyond their home market. SENS was operating in the rapidly growing alternative-protein market using products derived from edible crickets. Due to its increasing profitability and international expansion potential, SENS saw an opportunity to expand into one of more Nordic markets—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. ...Starting at €8.20
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ToyBox Education Project: A Case in Social Enterprise Planning
Lam An, Sylvie Albert, Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk, Kenneth ReimerCase IVEY-W34570-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2022, ToyBox Education Project sought to empower families to grow literacy, numeracy, and wellness starting at home. Based in Winnipeg, Canada, ToyBox Education Project provided an opportunity for students at the undergraduate and graduate level to complete several strategic assessments of a social enterprise within a post-secondary institution. The Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg had developed a number of tools to assist ca...Starting at €8.20
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Goldwind: Merger and Acquisition Integration of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises in Developed Markets
Yang Cheng, Yiqin Wang, Haibo Hu, William Wei, Etayankara MuralidharanCase IVEY-W34322-EStrategyIn 2008, Goldwind bought 70 per cent of Vensys’ shares through its German subsidiary to obtain a range of strategic assets, including a professional research and development team and associated design capabilities, intellectual property rights of permanent magnet direct drive (PMDD) technology, and corresponding wind turbine designs. Over the years, the post-merger integration (PMI) process of an emerging market multinational enterprise (EMNE) an...Starting at €8.20
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Options Pregnancy Centre: Too Many Options?
Laurie George Busuttil, Susan Van Weelden, Meghan Heron, Elisabeth Krstevski, Jordan PaulsCase IVEY-W34507-EDecision Analysis, StrategyIn December 2021, the director of Options Pregnancy Centre (Options) was challenged with determining how to expand the services offered by the organization in its Montreal, Quebec, community, as the need to support women who planned to carry their pregnancies and pursue parenting was becoming more acute. Options already offered counselling, grief and loss support, and a variety of parenting programs; it also facilitated required medical services ...Starting at €8.20
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Kyrö Distillery Company: Brutally Finnish in Japan
Miikka J. Lehtonen, Arto Lindblom, Gene ThompsonCase IVEY-W34817-EMarketing, StrategyKyrö Distillery Company (Kyrö), founded in 2012 in Isokyrö, Finland, focused on producing rye whisky from Finnish rye. However, it took an average of three years for one batch of whisky to be produced and ready for sale, so, to cover their costs and stay afloat, the founders decided to start producing gin, which could be produced faster. As luck had it, in 2014, Kyrö’s rye-based Napue Gin was named the best gin in the gin-and-tonic category in th...Starting at €8.20