Ivey Business School (Canada)
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The Plastilene Group: Sustainable Innovation Strategy
Ricardo Estrada; Juan Carlos Rodríguez; Michael RiveraCase IVEY-9B21M022-EStrategyIn 2020, the corporate purchasing and sustainability manager at the Plastilene Group (a plastics producer based in Colombia) needed to address a sustainability challenge. In response to media and legislative attacks and consumer behaviour changes regarding the use of plastic products globally, the corporate purchasing and sustainability manager, supported by the company’s chief executive officer, was tasked with leading a strategic renewal in the...Starting at €8.20
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Temple Health System: Real-Time Feedback & People Analytics (A)
Tony Petrucci; Michael RiveraCase IVEY-9B20C018-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2017, Dr. Gordon Morewood, chair of anesthesiology at Temple University Health System (Temple Health) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, faced a rapidly changing health care environment. Responsible for training anesthesiology residents and for all anesthesiology patient care across Temple Health’s system, Morewood faced rising expectations for improving patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and financial performance. Communication in health car...Starting at €8.20
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Claw and Kitty: Gripping a Potential Expansion
Ian Dunn; Helen LangCase IVEY-W34750-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn April 2021, the owner and founder of Claw & Kitty (CK) in Markham, Ontario, was considering moving his claw machine arcade to a larger location to continue growing his business. The owner had managed to grow his business despite the challenge of numerous pandemic-related shutdowns, and now he wanted to expand. He needed to decide whether this was a good time to do so. Would CK be able to survive if the Ontario government implemented future loc...Starting at €8.20
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The DAO Hack: A Blockchain Dilemma
Robert D. Austin; Helen LangCase IVEY-9B20E017-EEntrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesOn June 17, 2016, the founders of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), an experimental venture capital network based on blockchain technology, discovered they had been victims of an attack—a theft of investors' cryptocurrency worth about US$55 million. Because the attacker ingeniously exploited a flaw in the rules that governed the operations of the DAO, as written into a smart contract, it was possible to argue, as the attacker did, ...Starting at €8.20