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SoJo: Modeling Social Enterprise
Kanika Gupta; Melissa Leithwood; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B13M103-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySoJo is an online resource hub — optimized for web and mobile — focused on helping early-stage social innovators turn their ideas into action. Founded in Canada as a for-profit venture in 2010, the company depends mainly on volunteer part-time staff and competes for traffic in cyberspace with its own content providers. Many skeptics doubted the idea would ever work: why would content providers forego traffic on their own sites by relinquishing th...Starting at €8.20
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REfficient: Preparing for Growth
David Sparling; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B14M062-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2011, the founder of REfficient, an asset recovery service based in Hamilton, Ontario, was thinking about how she should manage the rapid growth that seemed just around the corner. Founded in 2010 to help cable firms generate value from their stock of surplus equipment, REfficient, with no direct competitors in the Ontario market, had grown rapidly and had a list of corporate customers, two warehouses and five employees. The company was ...Starting at €8.20
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Food and Health Policy in the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
David Sparling; Pamela LaughlandCase IVEY-9B11M045-EStrategyRapid increases in obesity and chronic disease rates are stressing health care systems and government budgets globally. They are also causing individuals, governments, and businesses to examine closely the relationship between food and health. The issue is complex and involves many stakeholders from government and non-governmental agencies, as well as businesses. Food and health can have both positive and negative impacts on the food industry.As ...Starting at €8.20
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Image Pipeline Services: Weighing the Buyout Offer
David Sparling; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B11D004-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThe president of Image Pipeline Services, a pipeline flushing and inspection firm, is taking a step back from the past few weeks, where he has spent virtually all his waking time working on his new business in Edmonton’s oil sands industry. A few months after starting his business, he controls virtually the entire market, but competitors will be encroaching soon. One competitor has offered to purchase his business and the president wants to weigh...Starting at €8.20
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Indian and Northern Affairs Canada — The New Horizon Farms Dilemma
David Sparling; Steven KoeckhovenCase IVEY-9B12M043-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe director of Lands and Economic Development in the Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) must make recommendations on how to handle challenges around a large farming company that leases land from First Nations communities in Western Canada. New Horizon Farms (NHF) has already leased over 180,000 acres from First Nations communities and plans to grow to one million acres. An immediate challenge is the leasing process whereby INA...Starting at €8.20
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Make Green Delicious: Sustainability at Jamie Kennedy Kitchens
Oana Branzei; Melissa LeithwoodCase IVEY-9B07M073-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case illustrates the challenges of growing sustainably by tracking the 30-year journey of a quintessentially Canadian chef, environmental champion, and strong advocate of slow food, seasonality, local sourcing and artisan food production. Set in mid May 2007, the case decision has Toronto-based Jamie Kennedy pondering several expansion options for Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, a corporation with three main ventures. Jamie Kennedy Kitchens' annual r...Starting at €8.20