Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Niagara Health System: An Innovative Communications Strategy (B)
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Andrew ScarffeCase IVEY-9B15M023-EStrategySupplement to 9B15M022.Starting at €5.74
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Niagara Health System: An Innovative Communications Strategy (A)
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Andrew ScarffeCase IVEY-9B15M022-EStrategyThis case chronicles three major challenges faced by the Niagara Health System, a seven-hospital network in the Niagara region in the province of Ontario, Canada. An interim chief communications officer has joined the Niagara Health System team on secondment to help with communications issues during a C. difficile outbreak. He soon realizes that the public communication issues were not isolated to this outbreak, but rather continued a trend of po...Starting at €8.20
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Kitimat Clean Ltd.
Rebecca A. Grant; Saul KleinCase IVEY-9B15M094-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA successful business executive and avid sailor had been thinking about new solutions to an old problem: safely transporting oil products. In late June 2014, the Canadian government had just approved a pipeline to carry bitumen from Alberta to the British Columbia coast. The immediate reaction from First Nations and environmental groups was extremely negative. Against this backdrop, the executive had put forward a radical proposal to refine the b...Starting at €8.20
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Vancity: Doing Good, Doing Well
Saul KleinCase IVEY-9B10M069-EStrategyThe case describes the situation facing Vancity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, in an environment where monetary policy was being used to stimulate the economy. The immediate decision facing the CEO was whether to raise interest rates on loans to make up for falling interest income. With close to zero per cent interest rates being advocated by the Bank of Canada, the spread between deposit and loan rates had narrowed to unprecedented le...Starting at €8.20