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Cenabal (C)
Stewart Thornhill; Jane GravillCase IVEY-9B08M022-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe owner of Cenabal, an organic salad dressing and bread dipping company, had obtained the funds her company required. Now, she faced the decision of how to spend the money. Some of the possibilities included expanding the product line, entering the U.S. market, or improving the distribution channels. Naturally, each of these choices had advantages and disadvantages that she must consider. This is the last supplement that follows Cenabal (A) and...Starting at €5.74
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epost: Evolving an Online Business
Deborah Compeau; Jane GravillCase IVEY-9B07E001-EInformation TechnologiesThe chief executive officer (CEO) of epost is preparing for a meeting with his successor. Epost, a division of Canada Post, is in a transition and many decisions will need to be made by the successor. With the introduction of the Internet, people are using regular postal services less frequently. Epost was created to generate revenue and to provide customers the ease of paying bills electronically. In 2004, epost acquired its competitor, Webdoxs....Starting at €8.20
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Waterloo Regional Police Services: The CIMS Project (B)
Jane Gravill; Deborah CompeauCase IVEY-9B07E008-EInformation TechnologiesThe chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Service was again faced with a crisis in the ongoing development of the CIMS project. It was early 2005 and he found himself again debating the future of this increasingly time-consuming and expensive project. Complicating matters now, however, was the fact that several of his partner organizations in CIMS wanted to go live with those portions of the software which had been delivered from the vendor. Thes...Starting at €5.74
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Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Weber, JamesCase HBS-120006-EEntrepreneurshipStephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their employees by examining company data on employees, including email traffic. Starling had struggled to grow in the people analytics sector while RegTech was an emerging sector that might pro...Starting at €8.20
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The Rise and Fall of FTX
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Pacelli, Joseph; Hancock, MaxCase HBS-124014-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and high-profile charitable giving. To many, it came as a shock when in the wake of FTX's collapse, the attorney responsible for restructuring the company professed he had never seen "such an ut...Starting at €8.20
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Waterloo Regional Police Services: The CIMS Project (C)
Jane Gravill; Deborah CompeauCase IVEY-9B07E009-EInformation TechnologiesThe chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Services (WRPS) found himself preparing for an important board meeting to discuss the fate of the CIMS project. Earlier that year he had recommended that the contract with ITG be cancelled and negotiations toward this end were proceeding. Now the chief was faced with the task of recommending an alternative vendor and approach for completing this important project. WRPS needed to install a suitable compute...Starting at €5.74
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BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit
Deshpande, Rohit; Dey, Aiyesha; Serafeim, GeorgeCase HBS-120042-EAccounting and ControlThe case revolves around the actions that Barbara Novick, co-founder and Vice-Chair of Blackrock, and Michelle Edkins, Global Head of Investment Stewardship, would need to take in response to the controversial CEO letters from Laurence (Larry) Fink, ChairStarting at €8.20
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Board Diversity at Amazon (A)
Dey, Aiyesha; Atluru, AnuCase HBS-121012-EAccounting and ControlThe case revolves around the decisions that the board of directors of ecommerce giant Amazon would need to make in response to the controversial letter that activist shareholder CtW investment group sent to Amazon's shareholders, urging them to vote in faStarting at €8.20
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Waterloo Regional Police Services: Reassessing the CIMS Project
Deborah Compeau; Jane GravillCase IVEY-9B07E010-EInformation TechnologiesIt had been four years since the chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Services (WRPS) met with the board to discuss critical next steps regarding vendor management for the Common Information Management System (CIMS) project. CIMS was an information systems project originally involving the WRPS and seven other police organizations. Since then, considerably more resources had been invested into the CIMS project by all stakeholders involved. The re...Starting at €8.20
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Cenabal (A)
Stewart Thornhill; Jane GravillCase IVEY-9B08M020-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe owner of Cenabal, faced an important decision. She had received an offer from two investors on the television show The Dragon's Den. She wondered if it would be wise to give up 50 per cent control of her organic salad dressing and bread dipping business in return for their $200,000 investment. Would losing a considerable amount of control over the business be worth gaining access to capital and their notable business experience? The supplemen...Starting at €8.20