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Waypoint: Reinventing Single Family Home Rental - Teaching note
Foster G; Hoyt DTeaching Note SGSB-E467TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn early 2009, following the collapse of the housing market, Doug Brien and Colin Wiel began buying single family homes (SFH) to renovate and rent. SFH rental had previously been a mom-and-pop business due to scaling difficulties—buying and managing large properties such as apartment complexes was well suited to institutional investors, but no one had solved the problem of buying and managing large numbers of relatively inexpensive SFHs. Brien a...Starting at €0.00
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Isaac Park: A Crucible of Leadership
Gerard SeijtsCase IVEY-9B21C002-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People ManagementIsaac Park was only six weeks into the role of leading all technology operations for Primal Leadership Solutions, a global leadership advisory organization that offered consulting services and executive recruitment. The lifeblood of the business was its dStarting at €8.20
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Public Services Canada (A): Mattie Johnsen
Gerard SeijtsCase IVEY-9B21C005-ELeadership and People ManagementMathilde Johnsen was a highly motivated environmental systems engineer in the real property branch of Public Services and Procurement Canada. Johnsen advanced a job grade about every 18 months, and in 2016, she successfully applied to the management stream. In 2019, after completing an MBA, Johnsen pursued an opportunity in the executive stream of the civil service. Her past behaviour raised concerns for the selection committee, who decided that,...Starting at €8.20
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Standing on Principle: The Resignation of Jane Philpott
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonCase IVEY-9B19C019-ELeadership and People ManagementJane Philpott, a federal member of Parliament and minister in the Canadian government’s cabinet, had told voters during her election campaign in 2015, “For me, a seat in the House of Commons is not a target; it’s a tool. It’s the tool that you and I will use to make this community better—to make this country better.” Four years later, Philpott was forced to examine her position and her potential to use that tool when a scandal brought to question...Starting at €8.20
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3DP Incorporated (A): Patrick Guten
Gerard SeijtsCase IVEY-9B20C037-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementAn effective and highly motivated executive at 3DP Incorporated, a company that specialized in manufacturing objects with three-dimensional printing, often told his friends that he thought he could be the next Steve Jobs. He wanted to take advantage of thStarting at €8.20
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La Maison Simons: The Bra Backlash
Jana Seijts; Gerard Seijts; Benjamin BigioCase IVEY-9B20C008-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementLa Maison Simons was a successful 178-year-old, family-run fashion retailer with 15 locations across Canada and over CA$500 million in sales in 2018. On September 6, 2018, the president and chief executive officer (CEO), supported and approved the launch of a new marketing campaign featuring brassieres named after historic Canadian women. One of those women was the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin. Within ho...Starting at €8.20
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Revera Inc. Getting Alignment Workshop (C)
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonCase IVEY-9B20C013-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement for product 9B20C011.Starting at €5.74
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Quirky: A Business Based on Making Invention Accessible
Marks M; Hoyt DCase SGSB-GS84-EService and Operations ManagementBen Kaufman founded Quirky in 2009 to enable anyone with a product idea to access an online network of people to help evaluate and improve the idea, and potentially bring it to market. By the end of 2012, Quirky was shipping 74 products, and had many more in development. Its products were sold in 35,000 stores worldwide. Each week, the company took three products into the research and development process, out of more than 1,000 submitted onlin...Starting at €8.20
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Vancouver YMCA: The Turnaround of a Public Icon
Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B09C017-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case focuses on the turnaround situation facing the newly elected chief executive officer (CEO) of the Vancouver YMCA. The YMCA has suffered a long series of operating deficits ($9 million per year), has mounting debts to third parties, declining membership, and a maxed out $1 million operation line of credit. There are issues with its assets (old facilities with little renovations done over the past three decades), political infighting and u...Starting at €8.20
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Scarborough YMCA: Getting Back on Track
Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C014-ELeadership and People ManagementThe newly appointed general manager at the Scarborough YMCA was discussing her plan of action with the YMCA senior leadership team of the Greater Toronto Area. The Scarborough YMCA had been a perennial underperformer from a membership, member satisfaction and financial perspective, but the general manager vowed to turn the facility around. Four prior general managers had given their best effort; yet the facility continued to lag behind the averag...Starting at €8.20