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Horst Dassler, Adidas, y la comercialización del deporte
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Norris, Michael; Kim, SophiCase HBS-316S09EntrepreneurshipEl caso se centra en la carrera de Horst Dassler, el hijo del fundador del fabricante de calzado deportivo con sede en Alemania Adidas. Los orígenes de la firma estaban en los años de entreguerras, y se elevó a la prominencia pública después de que proporciona picos de la famosa velocista afroamericano en los Juegos Olímpicos de 1936 en Berlín. Desde la década de 1950, Horst cultivó relaciones con los atletas y las federaciones nacionales para ex...Starting at €8.20
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dpms. - The Price of Earned Media
Julia Cutt; Mary WeilCase IVEY-9B14A038-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn April 2014, the co-founder of lifestyle brand dpms., situated in London, Ontario, has a dilemma. Started as an opportunity to showcase her partner’s graphic designs, dpms. first produced silk-screened t-shirts, then branched into jewelry and other locally produced products as the company succeeded. They maintain a booth at a weekly farmers’ and artisans’ market and travel to other festivals around the province but rely mainly on word-of-mouth ...Starting at €8.20
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Earthwear Face & Body: Communicating Corporate Culture (A)
Mary Weil; Julia CuttCase IVEY-9B14C045-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementBy the spring of 2014, the founder of EarthWear Face & Body is in desperate need of part-time employees to help run her successful skin care retail business, which she runs out of her home in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. After eight years of hard work, she has turned her part-time hobby making all-natural skin care products into a thriving business. She sells her products online, through retail stores, at craft and trade shows and at the Saska...Starting at €8.20
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Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
Serafeim, George; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-124017-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY was considering the best path forward for his company has he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in the lab. The company hoped to create 500,000 tons of products by 2030, and by 2023, had produced proof of concepts of cotton, coffee, and cacao. Bueno had a number of decisions to ma...Starting at €8.20
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Bloodbuy
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-815114-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2015, Chris Godfrey, founder and CEO of Bloodbuy has to consider the best path to growth for his young company that is attempting to disrupt the blood donation industry.Starting at €8.20
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U.S. Digital Service
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Sinai, Nick; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-817032-EEntrepreneurshipMikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certainty about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack Obama had given USDS a monumental task: transform how the federal government worked for the American people, digitally. The seeds of U...Starting at €8.20
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Koita Foods
Applegate, Lynda M.; Ofek, Elie; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-819001-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2018, Mustafa Koita, Founder and CEO of Dubai-based organic milk company Koita has to decide whether or not to pursue an investment from a potential competitor who is coming into his local market.Starting at €8.20
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Earls Restaurants Ltd.: The Importance of a Communication Plan
Mary Weil; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16C052-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementEarls Restaurants, Ltd., a Canadian restaurant chain headquartered in Vancouver, was facing a communications crisis in April 2016, when it changed its sourcing policy with regard to beef. In a bid to appeal to millennial consumers, who were conscious of animal welfare standards, it decided to source beef from a U.S. farm that had its beef independently certified as humane. This cut out the restaurant’s traditional supply sources among Canadian ra...Starting at €8.20
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Earthwear Face & Body: Communicating Corporate Culture (B)
Mary Weil; Julia CuttCase IVEY-9B14C046-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementSupplement to 9B14C045.Starting at €5.74
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Wayne Ferrari: iAutomation at a Crossroads
Sharpe, Jim; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-813120-EEntrepreneurshipWayne Ferrari has bridged the gap between being an independent entrepreneur and a "professional manager." After selling his business to a Private Equity (PE) firm, Ferrari takes on the role of CEO and with their support implements a roll-up strategy to attain growth through acquisition in the mechanical controls distribution industry. Ferrari received support from the PE firm in negotiating and financing acquisitions but faced the challenging tas...Starting at €8.20