Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Mama J's Marmalade
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhExercise IVEY-9B14B002-EAccounting and ControlIn 2013, the chief executive officer of a marmalade manufacturing company needs to update his accounting records for the fiscal year. In order to complete this task, he gathers the previous year's financial statements and a list of cash receipts and disbursements for the current year in order to perform a financial analysis.Starting at €8.20
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Golden Tunes Records
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhCase IVEY-9B13B012-EAccounting and ControlTwo aspiring musicians and music producers launch and incorporate their own record label. At the end of the company’s first year of operations, the partners face their first financial year-end, and they wonder how the company’s assets, many of which are intangible, should be presented in the statement of financial position.Starting at €8.20
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Deloitte Consulting GTA: The Deloitte Dads Initiative
Alison Konrad; Amy ShuhCase IVEY-9B13C046-ELeadership and People ManagementDeloitte Dads is a firm-sponsored diversity and inclusion initiative aimed at supporting working fathers within Deloitte (Canada) LLP, an independent member of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited global network. With support from senior management, Deloitte Dads was founded in 2010 by a junior consultant in the management consulting division in the company’s Greater Toronto Area office and quickly gained both members and media attention. The gro...Starting at €8.20
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Anwar Aluminum Works
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhCase IVEY-9B14B001-EAccounting and ControlThe plant manager of an aluminum alloy production plant is faced with capacity constraints and must determine which of two new speciality orders to take on. Both orders cannot be filled simultaneously.Students are asked to: (1) perform an industry size-up of the global metals industry and its subset, the aluminum industry; (2) perform a business size-up of the company's current operations; (3) determine the pros and cons of accepting each custome...Starting at €8.20
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Funding My Sisters’ Place: Building a Sustainable Social Enterprise - Teaching Note
Janice Byrne; Sophie Bacq; Vania SakelarisTeaching Note IVEY-W28482-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and CommunicationTeaching note for product W28481.Starting at €0.00
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Cole and Parker: Socks that Start Businesses
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Amy ShuhCase IVEY-9B14A006-EMarketingThe co-founders of a company that markets brightly coloured, high-quality and boldly designed men’s socks had just heard from the producers of a popular Canadian reality television show, Dragons’ Den. They had been chosen to pitch their business idea to the show’s venture capitalists in hopes of receiving investment funds. Since they were at the cusp of their business development plans, with an innovative business model and product design, the co...Starting at €8.20
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Satya: Authentic Entrepreneurship and Community
Vania Sakelaris; Janice ByrneCase IVEY-W28479-EEntrepreneurshipPatrice Mousseau was an Indigenous woman in Canada who founded an organic skin care company, Satya. From Satya’s modest beginnings and early challenges, the company had several subsequent successes before Mousseau faced significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mousseau’ s Indigenous values and influences shaped her approach to launching and developing Satya. Additionally, Mousseau’s collaboration with a women-only network of investors...Starting at €8.20
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Kids Swag: Building an Opportunity around Diversity
Vania Sakelaris; Janice ByrneCase IVEY-W26182-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn 2016, a Black woman entrepreneur in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, in the greater Toronto area founded a small but successful venture named Kids Swag in response to a gap she identified in the children’s products market, which was failing to represent the BlacStarting at €8.20
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Helga Wear: The Unzipped Potential of Women’s Workwear
Vania Sakelaris; Janice ByrneCase IVEY-W32629-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case traces the story of Jodi Huettner, a mechanical engineer, and her journey to launch Helga Wear Inc. (Helga Wear), a company that developed personal protective equipment (PPE) in the form of workwear specifically designed for women. Huettner started the venture following her own struggles working in PPE designed for men. The case outlines the various challenges she encountered in bringing her product to market and illustrates how gender b...Starting at €8.20
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Funding My Sisters’ Place: Building a Sustainable Social Enterprise
Janice Byrne; Sophie Bacq; Vania SakelarisCase IVEY-W28481-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and CommunicationBy the spring of 2021, My Sisters’ Place, a safe, welcoming, and inclusive support centre for women in London, Ontario, had welcomed countless women to Buchan House, a historic Victorian mansion located in downtown London, that had been generously donated by a local family. While it had become a safe haven for so many people in the community, the building’s age and heritage status also meant frequent and high maintenance costs, and the recent roo...Starting at €8.20