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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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Should Dangote Farming Exit the Tomato Paste Market?
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-W33570-EEconomics, StrategyIn July 2021, a major supply-side crisis in Nigeria forced the Dangote Tomato Processing Co. Limited plant of Dangote Farming to operate at just 20 per cent of its production capacity. Since its inception in 2016, the plant was shut down several times due to a shortage of fresh tomatoes of the required quality. Although the Nigerian government supported Dangote Farming by pursuing pro-tomato and pro-tomato-paste policies, it was unable to operate...Starting at €8.20
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ASML and the Geopolitics of Chip Manufacturing: Balancing Strategic and Political Pressures
Solon Moreira, Pablo Izurieta, Ram Mudambi, Deepak Nayak, Julianne SellinCase IVEY-W34163-EStrategyASML Holding NV (ASML) was a leading technology company headquartered in the Netherlands that specialized in the design and production of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. It had a global presence, with operations in Asia, Europe, and North America. Its unique chip manufacturing technology was essential for the development of technology products from military equipment and laundry machines to the smartphones in peoples’ pockets. ASM...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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Action Education: A Customer-First Strategic Change
Yuanyuan Li, Haifen LinCase IVEY-W34172-EStrategyFounded in 2006, Shanghai Action Education Technology Co., Ltd. (Action Education), a provider of management training services for small and medium-sized private enterprises, was the first listed management education company in China. In 2014, due to the fierceness of the market competition and the splitting of the top management team, Action Education changed their strategy from a product-oriented one to customer-oriented one and repositioned th...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
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Disney (A): From Disneyland to Disney World, Learning the Art of Land Assembly
Wheeler, Michael A.; Levenson, GeorgiaCase HBS-898018-EStrategyWalt Disney is contemplating sites for a new theme park, building on the success of Disneyland in Anaheim. The focus is on Disney's strategy for land negotiation and acquisition, which is informed by his experience with the Anaheim park.Starting at €8.20
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Michelin: Building a Digital Service Platform
Gupta, Sunil; Godwin, ChristianCase HBS-520061-EStrategyMichelin, a tire company with over a century of experience, attempts to develop a digital service platform for its fleet and dealer customers. The case focuses on the challenges of bringing a large, well-established company into the digital age. Concerned about the slow growth in the tire market, Florent Menegaux, Michelin's CEO, set out to redefine the company as a mobility company. As part of this growth strategy, Michelin started offering a ho...Starting at €8.20