Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Heritage Chickens: The Challenge of Genetic Sustainability
Joel Gehman; Marni Devlin Moses; Leanne HedbergCase IVEY-9B17M057-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Poultry Research Centre at the University of Alberta farm was an internationally recognized research, development, and learning hub. It began the Rare Poultry Conservancy Program in 1986 as a way to maintain heritage chicken breeds. In 2009/10, as a result of the global financial crisis, university funding was reduced, and every campus department needed to cut programs or find creative ways to finance them outside of the traditional methods. ...Starting at €8.20
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City Water Tanzania (C): The Private Sector Experiment
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M027A-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025 and is a two-part role-play. In this part (A) role-play, students take the position of Edward Lowassa, Tanzania's Minister of Water.Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (C): Striking a Deal
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M027B-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025 and is a two-part role-play. In this part (B) role-play, students take the position of Cliff Stone, Biwater's former director of sales for Africa and now chief executive officer of City Water's management.Starting at €5.74
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Value Chain Development: Care Kenya’s Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (B)
Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B12M034-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Value Chain Development: Care Kenya’s Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (A).Starting at €5.74
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Earth’s General Store: Balancing People, Planet, and Profit in Organic-Food Retailing
Joel Gehman; Ashton Paulitsch; Maninder Pardais; Bernard Streeper; Brian Ballman; Taylor Love; Leanne HedbergCase IVEY-9B17M099-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe owner and operator of two stores that sold organic groceries and fair-trade goods in Edmonton, Alberta was proud of what he had built; however he was worried about the financial sustainability of his downtown location. Since its opening in 2014, the downtown store had constantly struggled to remain profitable in the face of extremely high overhead costs. The original Whyte Avenue location of Earth’s General Store, highly popular with its loya...Starting at €8.20
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Value Chain Development: Care Kenya’s Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (A)
Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B12M033-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case examines how CARE, a non-profit international development organization, begins to pursue a market-based approach to meeting its poverty-reduction mission. Specifically, a CARE project manager explores how previous work with low-income livestock herders in drought-prone eastern Kenya might offer an opportunity to work with value chain actors to improve access to markets and increase farmers’ incomes.With the Kenyan livestock project as t...Starting at €8.20
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Fruits of Sherbrooke: Creating a Sustainable Business
Joel Gehman; Amy Hingston; Cuong Pham; Andrew Phelan; Matthew Townley; David Vetters; Leanne HedbergCase IVEY-9B17M088-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2010, three friends created Fruits of Sherbrooke as a way to rescue local fruit that would otherwise be wasted. The founders knew their efforts would be beneficial for the environment and for people in need of food. In February 2016, having grown their business into a successful social enterprise entirely through the help of volunteers, they faced important decisions. Realistically, they would not always be able to run the organization, which ...Starting at €8.20
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City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M025-EStrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - This case is one of the winners of the 2008 Dark Side Case Writing Competition. This case examines how the Tanzania government intends to address a pressing deterioration in the infrastructure and services of Dar es Salaam's Water and Sewage Authority. The decision process unfolds in the spring of 2002, on the heels of the Cochabamba uprising in Bolivia and an increasing dispute over the involvement of the International Finan...Starting at €8.20
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City Water Tanzania (B): Privatizing Dar es Salaam's Water Utility
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M026-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025. It details the terms of the lease contract with an international operator, Biwater, and discusses the alternatives that were considered and discarded, the bidding process, and the roles and motivations of the parties. The key questions revolve around a) the adequacy of the decision, b) the responsibility for the next steps and c) the mileston...Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (D): Things Fall Apart
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M028-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025. This case summarizes the decision of the negotiation: the break up of City Water Tanzania and its aftermath, including litigation and forgone opportunities to meet the needs of the local residents.Starting at €5.74