Spreadsheet supplement for case 902B01.

In 2016 (A case), the founder of Tokyo Smoke, a cannabis retailing enterprise based in Toronto, needed to attract investors. The former Google Inc. employee had taken advantage of public policy changes in Canada and was modelling his retail business on Starbucks Corporation, which had educated North American consumers about coffee and captured a huge share of the coffee market. He needed investment capital in order to build his brand and needed to .....more

Supplement to case W19534 In 2016 (A case), the founder of Tokyo Smoke, a cannabis retailing enterprise based in Toronto, needed to attract investors. The former Google Inc. employee had taken advantage of public policy changes in Canada and was modelling his retail business on Starbucks Corporation, which had educated North American consumers about coffee and captured a huge share of the coffee market. He needed investment capital in order to build .....more

In many contexts, the firm is no longer an independent strategic actor. Its success depends on collaboration with other firms in a designed ecosystem spanning multiple sectors. In these cases, traditional strategy frameworks are of little help. Instead, the author says, companies should focus on five questions: (1) Can you help other firms create value? Success is as much about helping other firms innovate as it is about innovating yourself. (2) What .....more

On Monday, July 23, 2018, the operations manager at Sorel Life Insurance Company in Montreal, Quebec was preparing for a meeting scheduled for Friday. The meeting was called by her boss, the vice-president of operations, to discuss Sorel''s second quarter financial results. Performance of Sorel''s underwriting department was continuing to decline; market share had dropped, policy completion time had increased, and fewer applications .....more

Fernandez Hospitals (FH) was a unique health services organisation focused on women and newborns, based in Hyderabad, India. Its vision was to promote natural childbirth and respectful maternity care across India, make pregnancy safe for women and their babies, promote midwifery training and birth without interventions, and to always lower costs for patients. A strong advocate of natural birth, FH''s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Evita Fernandez, .....more

A financially struggling administrative assistant needs information to help her decide whether she can return to school.

Ace Company (Ace) was a Chinese start-up developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded in February 2015 by three colleagues for the initial purpose of providing an unprecedented universal IoT operating system, the absence of which was severely crippling developing development in IoT. By mid-2017, having proven the technical viability and market acceptability of its offering, the company was ready to scale up. However, .....more

David Simmons is a waiter at a struggling Italian restaurant located down the block from where he lives. Money is tight for him right now, as his limited income means he lives paycheck to paycheck. However, David knows things will look up for him soon because he was recently offered a job as a bank teller across town-his first desk job. This case helps students learn about building credit. The case addresses what a FICO score is, who computes it, .....more