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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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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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ING Bank of Canada (A): El Lanzamiento de un Banco Directo (Spanish version)
Adrian B. RyansCase IVEY-9A99AS10Entrepreneurship, MarketingEl equipo de direccion de ING Bank of Canada estaba preparando el lanzamiento del primer banco de descuento en Canada. Inicialmente, el banco planeaba servir a sus clientes usando el correo y el telefono. Mas tarde, planeaba suplementar el servicio de banca telefenica con un sistema interactivo de respuesta por voz y un servicio basado en la Internet. ING esperaba atraer clientes al ofrecerles un significativo aumento en la tasa de interes en sus...Starting at €8.20
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Nintendo - El Lanzamiento Del Game Boy A Color (Spanish version)
Robert J. Fisher; Adrian B. RyansCase IVEY-9B01AS13MarketingNintendo Co. Ltd. es un líder mundial en la industria de los videojuegos. En 1998 la versión a color del Game Boy de Nintendo era lanzado simultáneamente en Norte América y Europa, y sería uno de los lanzamientos de producto más importantes de Nintendo a la fecha. El presidente de Nintendo de Canadá debe desarrollar un plan de marketing que genere la mayor rentabilidad posible.Starting at €8.20
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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