Ivey Business School (Canada)
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The Globe and Mail: Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism Scandal
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B13M047-EStrategyThe public editor of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, faces a significant ethical situation. An advocate of media standards has released a blog post outlining allegations of plagiarism against a prominent newspaper columnist. Following the release of the blog post, numerous members of the public and the journalism community began commenting on the situation. The public editor is responsible for upholding journalistic ethic...Starting at €8.20
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Research in Motion: Sincerely, a RIM Employee (B)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12C021-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Research in Motion: Sincerely, a RIM Employee (A).Starting at €5.74
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Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (B)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12M045-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (A).Starting at €5.74
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City in Crisis: Michael Taylor
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B10M102-EStrategyOver the past four years the chief administrative officer (CAO) had worked hard to bring change to the city of Havenstock, Canada. Prior to his arrival at Havenstock in 2004, City Hall was awash in media scandal, secrecy, and suspicion. Moreover, the work environment at City Hall was plagued with closed-channel communication and a lack of trust between employees and management. Staff morale was low and the relationship with the press was tense. T...Starting at €8.20
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Lac-Megantic Train Derailment: Putting Out the Fires (B)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B13M136-EStrategySupplement to 9B13M135.Starting at €5.74
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Canada's Aboriginal People: Idle No More
Gerard Seijts; Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B13C024-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementThe relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian government has been characterized by conflict and change. Although the Conservative government seemed to support Aboriginal objectives when it issued an historic apology in 2007 for the abuses suffered under the residential schools program and signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in 2008, it included changes to the Indian Act in its 2012 omnibus Bill ...Starting at €8.20
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Canadian Cancer Society: Fundraising Controversy
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B11M098-EStrategyOn July 6, 2011, the communication director for the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) in Toronto, Ontario, was faced with a challenging situation. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) had just released an online article that focused on the 2011 CCS budget and how the CCS allocated millions of dollars each year. The article provided details on how the proportion of donation money that the CCS spent on cancer research each year had decreased fro...Starting at €8.20
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Ontario Place Revitalization (Spanish version)
Mary Gillett; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12MS087StrategyIn 2012, the Ontario provincial government announced that after 41 years in operation, the iconic Toronto tourist attraction Ontario Place would be shut down. The immediate closing would save the province and tax payers an estimated $20 million a year and eliminate at least 48 full-time jobs and 600 summer positions in the process. Ontario Place attendance had dropped sharply from an average of three million visitors during the early 1980's, to j...Starting at €8.20
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Lac-Megantic Train Derailment: Putting Out the Fires (A)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B13M135-EStrategyIn the early morning of Saturday, July 6, 2013, the chairman of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Limited faced a catastrophic situation when a company train carrying crude oil derailed in the small town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, causing a series of explosions that decimated the downtown core. Emergency crews fought to put out fires and search for survivors; residents were relocated to a local school to escape the noxious fumes, but t...Starting at €8.20
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Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (A)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12M044-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyMike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), faced a situation of truly disastrous proportions. Earlier that week, service outages had started occurring on RIM’s popular BlackBerry smartphone devices, affecting over 30 million BlackBerry users globally. For a total of three days, RIM engineers worked around the clock to fix the widespread technical problems. However, with the company providing only brief comments to the public, many consum...Starting at €8.20