Ivey Business School (Canada)
-
Mosaic Home Services Ltd.: Sourcing and Securing Strategic Partnerships
Theresa A. Chika-James; Mark ArnisonCase IVEY-9B20M064-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2019, the senior executive partners of Mosaic Home Services Ltd. (Mosaic), a home improvement and commercial property management company in Edmonton, Alberta, needed to choose from among several potential new partnership deals. When the senior executive partners had exited a family-owned commercial construction business in 2015 to start Mosaic, their major objective had been to help improve the living spaces of homeowners and the work sp...Starting at €8.20
-
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
-
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
-
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