Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Montreal Community Contact: What Will Happen After Me?
Linda Dyer, Christopher A. RossCase IVEY-W27022-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn July 2020, the founder and manager of Montreal Community Contact (Contact), a bimonthly community newspaper, was considering strategies to ensure the survival of his business. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that he was sixty-three years old, he worried about what the future of the newspaper would look like if anything were to happen to him. Contact had been running for almost thirty years and had a loyal readership within the Bl...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership at Research in Motion
Charlice Hurst; William T. WatsonCase IVEY-9B13C019-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyTwo people with opposing skills – business management and marketing on the one hand and technological know-how on the other – are joint chief executive officers of a market-leading smartphone manufacturer. Their leadership styles, decision-making and relationship with each other are paramount from the company’s inception, through its rise, its response to mounting competition and the period of declining performance that followed. Conflicting poin...Starting at €8.20
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Avid Life (B)
Gerard Seijts; William T. WatsonCase IVEY-9B12C004-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership and People ManagementThis case is a supplement to Avid Life (A).Starting at €5.74
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Montreal Community Contact: What Will Happen After Me? - Teaching Note
Linda Dyer, Christopher A. RossTeaching Note IVEY-W27023-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product W27022.Starting at €0.00
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Avid Life (A)
Gerard Seijts; William T. WatsonCase IVEY-9B12C003-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership and People ManagementNoel Biderman was the president of Avid Life Media, a profitable Canadian growth company whose main businesses were various online social networks for groups seeking sexual partners and romance. Biderman was seeking to raise $60 million via a private placement offering to acquire a privately held online advertising sales company, merge the companies, and take the new and improved entity to the TSX Venture Exchange or the Toronto Stock Exchange. T...Starting at €8.20