Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Little Short Stop: Creating Strategy for a Shifting Industry
Meredith Woodwark; Karin Schnarr; Gerry BesCase IVEY-9B20M076-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2019, the general manager of Little Short Stop Stores, a chain of local, family-owned convenience stores in southwestern Ontario, Canada, was projecting a loss for that year. The loss was due in part to a provincial minimum wage increase to CA$14.00 that came into effect on January 1, 2018, increased from $11.60 in 2017 and $11.40 in 2016. Before this change, the store chain had been exceeding the average industry growth rate by 5 per ce...Starting at €8.20
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LumiSmart (A): Answering the Call for Negawatts
Stewart Thornhill; Ellen M. BrownCase IVEY-9B11M031-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe president and chief executive officer (CEO) of an established Toronto-based boutique consulting firm is in the process of expanding his company’s core competency from the largely mature tech sector to the new and rapidly growing field of clean technology. During this time, the CEO is introduced to an inventor and an entrepreneur who have developed a waveform technology that they claim will instantaneously reduce electricity consumption by 30 ...Starting at €8.20
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LumiSmart (B): Answering the Call for Negawatts
Stewart Thornhill; Ellen M. BrownCase IVEY-9B11M032-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to LumiSmart (A): Answering the Call for Negawatts explores how the development of the clean technology might be financed.Starting at €5.74