Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Sears Canada (A)
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13D014-EService and Operations ManagementSears Canada’s associate vice-president of sustainability faces dilemmas in executing a strategy to reduce the retailer’s carbon footprint. He needs to integrate the concept of sustainability into the company’s larger corporate objectives, drive the concept in individual business units and identify the metrics for tracking the progress of reducing Sears Canada’s carbon footprint.The (B) case, 9B13D015, is positioned two years later, when the asso...Starting at €8.20
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Sonnen Trucking Company
Stephan Vachon; Tessa WeidnerCase IVEY-9B15D005-EService and Operations ManagementIn January 2013, the new chief executive officer of the Sonnen Trucking Company, a family-owned business, is considering how to reduce fleet insurance costs. As profit margins are very tight and continuing to shrink, she has to think about variables she can control in order to affect the bottom line positively. Insurance costs are the logical item to address since they are based on the company’s safety and accident records and the extent that it ...Starting at €8.20
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Re-Matt Inc.: Scaling the Mattress Recycling Operations
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B17D023-EIn January 2017, the owner of Re-Matt Inc. (Re-Matt), a mattress recycling operation, was considering the way forward for the business he had developed in the city of Calgary, Alberta. Re-Matt was a unique enterprise in Alberta where municipalities, both urban and rural, had been categorizing mattresses as waste, and sending them to landfills for disposal, for decades. Re-Matt’s business was diverting used mattresses from landfills and recycling ...Starting at €8.20
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Nora Lang: Pay Equity at FTS
Matthew Sooy; Lauren Iuliani; W. Spencer AshbyCase IVEY-9B20C030-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn August 2018, a recent Canadian business school graduate was excited about starting her dream job at a global financial consulting firm headquartered in the United Kingdom. However, on her first day, she learned from discussions with co-workers that newStarting at €8.20
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EOS Imaging: Revenue Recognition
Kun Huo; Matthew Sooy; Zoe ZhouCase IVEY-W24571-EAccounting and ControlJane Zhou, an equity analyst at a large asset management firm, was preparing a report on EOS Imaging (EOS), a French medical device company that her firm had invested in. EOS’s drastic fall in First Quarter (Q1) 2019 revenue caught Zhou’s attention, as thStarting at €8.20
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Paratent Event Rentals Ltd.: The Job Costing Decision
Matthew Sooy; Anthony MastromariniCase IVEY-W24214-EAccounting and ControlIn 2019, Paratent Event Rentals Ltd. was facing the possibility of year end net losses. The co-owners of this Canadian business had recently invested in premium inventory, but a lackluster first quarter showed that they were not forecasted to get return on their investments. A new method of cost allocation was proposed to get Paratent back on track. When choosing between three conflicting future contracts, both the old and new methods of cost all...Starting at €8.20
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In Search of the 'Right' Numbers: Navigating Professional Judgment Challenges in Accounting
Mitchell Stein; Matthew Sooy; Anthony ScilipotiCase IVEY-9B20B012-EAccounting and ControlIn October 2001, the co-founder and vice-president of Veritas Investment Research Corporation (Veritas), was considering his next steps as he prepared to issue a highly critical report on Bombardier Inc. (Bombardier). The vice-president believed that BombStarting at €8.20
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Sears Canada (B)
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13D015-EService and Operations ManagementThis is a supplement to 9B13D014.Starting at €5.74
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Erie Thames Powerlines: The Hybrid Truck Decision
Stephan Vachon; Ryan MallanyCase IVEY-9B16B020-EAccounting and ControlErie Thames Powerlines, an electricity distributor in Southwestern Ontario, needed to determine the suitability of the company acquiring a hybrid truck as opposed to a conventional diesel utility truck. As of early July 2016, the truck suppliers (for both hybrid and diesel trucks) and the internal accounting department had provided substantial information with which to conduct a thorough analysis. The company also wanted to include some qualitati...Starting at €8.20