Case Studies

Case studies are interactive, dynamic, and participant-driven teaching tools designed to guide students through real-world case examples of business issues. Students learn to analyze information, develop rational alternatives, make decisions, and recommend implementation tactics in time-sensitive situations, just as they would as practicing managers.
 
Ivey is the second largest producer of management case studies in the world. These cases are used extensively in our degree and executive education programs, and are also available to other universities, business and government organizations.
 
The Institute has undertaken the laborious task of both identifying entrepreneurship cases within the Ivey database and classifying them into subcategories. We have also undertaken a major case writing initiative that will add cases to areas (subcategories) that have had minimal to no coverage. The outcome of this exercise will potentially be the publication of a series of entrepreneurship case books.
 
Categories of Entrepreneurship Cases

 
•   International   Entrepreneurship
 
•   Women Entrepreneurs
 
•   Family Business
 
•   Corporate Entrepreneurship
 
•   Sustainable Entrepreneurship   (Environment focus)
 
•   Social Entrepreneurship  

Entrepreneurial Finance

 
• Venture Capital
 
• Initial Public Offering  
 
• Mergers & Acquisitions  
 
• Boot Strapping  
 
• Harvest (deal structure) 
 
• Cash Flow Management

Entrepreneurship “Process” 

 
• Searching for Ideas/Opportunities  
 
• Screening Ideas for Business Opportunities  
 
• Planning (Operations & Business Plans) 
 
• Entrepreneurial Marketing  
 
• Entrepreneurial Strategy (Harvest, etc.) 
 
• Stakeholder Planning  
 
• Vision/Principles/Values  
 
• Legal Issues (Intellectual Property) 
 
• Growth of Entrepreneurial Ventures
 
• Franchising

For more information on Entrepreneurship cases please contact Ivey Publishing.