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Cheekbone Beauty - Building an Indigenous Growth Venture
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The founder of Cheekbone Beauty, an Indigenous enterprise in the Niagara Region of Ontario, was driven by the goal of becoming “the first Indigenous woman to create a unicorn beauty brand from Canada.” In early 2021, she was seeking resolution to an ongoing entrepreneurial dilemma: How should she identify the fledgling company’s unique strengths and build them into sustainable competitive advantages?<br><br>The Ivey Business School gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Pierre Lapointe, MBA ’83, in the development of this case.
學習目標
This case can be taught in either undergraduate- or postgraduate-level courses in any of the following areas: entrepreneurship, strategy, marketing, and Indigenous studies. It gives students an opportunity to step into the shoes of an Indigenous entrepreneur and find a way forward for her. After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:<ul><li>Understand the challenges and possibilities associated with Indigenous entrepreneurship.</li><li>Illustrate and apply the VRIO (valuable, rare, inimitable, organization) framework, a key part of the resource-based view of a firm.</li></ul>