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Crulogic: Una pyme peleando entre multinacionales - Nota del Instructor
Garrido Martínez, Enrique;Teaching Note IIST-PINT-163StrategyEl caso describe la situación de una Pyme de servicios logísticos cuando Heineken, su principal cliente, le sorprende con un adelanto inesperado del inicio de los servicios de almacenamiento. Crulogic tenía más de 40 años de experiencia en el sector con clientes multinacionales de la industria de la alimentación y pretendía convertirse en un operador logístico de ámbito nacional (e internacional), pero su principal fuente de ingresos seguía siend...Starting at €0.00
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Chick-fil-A: Bird of a Different Feather
Simko, Paul J.; Farris, Paul W.; Weiler, Virginia; Gerardo, Peter;Case DARDEN-G-0632-EStrategyIn 2011, sales at Chick-fil-A (CFA) surpassed $4 billion; however due to ownership’s aversion to debt, the pace of expansion was significantly slower than the fast-food-segment average. And the biggest differences between CFA and other fast-food chains were its private, family-controlled ownership structure and its management philosophy. This case explores the relationship between an enterprise’s philosophy and its long-term viability. This case ...Starting at €8.20
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For the Love of Laundry: Comparing Organizational Forms to Scale a Social Enterprise
Kent Walker; Ian Stecher; Francine Schlosser; Megain O'Neil-RenaudCase IVEY-9B18M008-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe London, Ontario, social enterprise For the Love of Laundry was founded in 2014 with the intention of selling homemade, eco-friendly soaps and using the profits to fund free laundry events in the community. In 2017, the founder's goal was to increase the scale of the business and its social impact. She needed to decide how to structure the organization to increase its scale while maintaining control of its strategic direction. The founder comp...Starting at €8.20
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The Detroit River International Crossing Bridge
Kent Walker; Saeed RahmanCase IVEY-9B13M114-EStrategyThis case discusses the only privately owned bridge between Canada and the United States and the possible construction of a second competing and publicly owned bridge. With an upcoming crucial vote on the fate of the public bridge, a Michigan student must decide how to vote and whether she believes that a central public infrastructure should be privately held. She contemplates a deeper issue as well – the fundamental principle of capitalism, a sy...Starting at €8.20
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Rivest Farms: Farming Approaches and the Four Ps
Kent Walker; Ryan DonallyCase IVEY-9B16M011-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyHaving previously raised pigs on his farm with unsuccessful results, a Canadian farmer has always dreamed of reintroducing pigs to his cash crop farm. The decision is particularly difficult, as he must consider not only the financial viability of his options, but also the environmental costs, benefits, and the welfare of the animals and workers — collectively referred to as the Four Ps (profits, planet, people, and pigs). Although the market for ...Starting at €8.20
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Aparigraha Yoga: Balancing the Tensions of Sustainable Entrepreneurship - Teaching Note
Kent Walker; Ian StecherTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M021-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M021.Starting at €0.00
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Sol Meliá
Llano Irusta, Miguel Angel;Case IIST-PI-155StrategySol Meliá era a principios del 2008, líder en el mercado español en el segmento urbano y la compañía vacacional más grande del mundo con presencia en 25 países, con más de 32.000 empleados, ocupando el decimosegundo lugar mundial en el sector en número de habitaciones y el tercer puesto en la industria hotelera europea. Los resultados del recién terminado Plan Estratégico 2004-2007 de Sol Meliá presentaban una evolución económica muy positiva. Si...Starting at €8.20
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Jerónimo Martins Agribusiness: From to Supermarket to Farm
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio;Case IIST-MI-149-E-EStrategyJerónimo Martins Agro-Alimentar (JMA) was a new business unit oriented towards dairy, cattle and aquaculture production that the Portuguese food distribution group Jerónimo Martins was developing in March 2015. It was in line with the Group’s top management strategy of backward integration into the primary sector, aimed at securing its supply needs of some products by 2020. However, the 2015 acute price crisis in the European dairy industry made ...Starting at €8.20
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Jerónimo Martins Agroalimentaria: del Supermercado a la Granja - Nota del Instructor
Villafuerte Martin, Antonio;Teaching Note IIST-MITN-149StrategyNota del Instructor del caso: MI-149Starting at €0.00
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The Rhinoceros Horn Trade: Considering Legalization
Kent Walker; Kara KristofCase IVEY-9B19M099-EStrategyThe international demand for rhinoceros (rhino) horns was driving the species to near extinction. But an international ban on trading the horns made it lucrative to illegally kill rhinos for their horns, which were traded on the black market. One hotly deStarting at €8.20