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Keystone Excavating Limited: Preserving a Legacy
Pernille Goodbrand; Sandip Lalli; Cheryl BrazellCase IVEY-9B18M158-EStrategyIn June 2015, a new president and chief executive officer, Sandip Lalli, was hired by the board of directors of Keystone Excavating Limited (Keystone) to turn the company around and increase its value. In its 35 years of operations, Keystone had failed to articulate a purpose, and for the past five years it had been in double-digit decline. The economic downturn in Alberta from 2014 to 2016 had made the situation dire, and by September 2016 Lalli...Starting at €8.20
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Workplace Safety Trainers: Resuscitating Revenue
Julie Gosse, Anthony MccreeryCase IVEY-W32234-EStrategyIn June of 2022, Jada Abimbola, chief executive officer and owner of Workplace Safety Trainers (WST), needed to develop a strategy for the business after experiencing stagnating profits during the coronavirus pandemic. WST was one of Ontario’s foremost private occupational health and safety companies, providing training for businesses that needed to comply with the standards of the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Dev...Starting at €8.20
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Chem-ARC: Playing the Blame Game
Julie Gosse, Anthony MccreeryCase IVEY-W32509-ELeadership and People ManagementThe turnaround coordinator at Chem-ARC Industries (Chem-ARC) had to solve a dispute involving multiple stakeholders within the Turnaround Scheduling and Planning Department. Chem-ARC had been only two days into a company-wide shutdown when a delay on the plant floor sent the outage schedule into disarray. Members of the department started to blame one another for the issues Chem-ARC was facing. With a group of disgruntled employees, a costly prob...Starting at €8.20
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Brookfield Residential Properties: Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders
Norm Althouse; Peggy Hedges; Cheryl BrazellCase IVEY-9B17M148-EStrategyIn early summer 2012, Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (Brookfield), a Calgary-based residential property developer with holdings throughout North America, had an opportunity to develop a vacant site in the inner-city community of Scarboro, in the southwest quadrant of Calgary. Brookfield did not own the site but was working with the landowner to request that the city of Calgary rezone the site from single family to Direct Control to allow ...Starting at €8.20