Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Sam’s Pizzeria: Managing Peak Demand
David Wood; Ali Abdel-RazekCase IVEY-9B20D002-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementIn October 2018, the owner of Sam’s Pizzeria (Sam’s) in Orillia, Ontario, needed to determine how he should staff his business to keep up with an increase in demand on Halloween. Halloween had often been a source of frustration, as Sam's struggled to keep up with demand on that day. Providing customers with good-quality pizza and fast delivery was critical to Sam’s success. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of the past, the owner knew that he wo...Starting at €8.20
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OECM: Transforming Public-Sector Culture and Scaffolding for Growth
Farzad H. Alvi; Amir NematbakhshCase IVEY-9B19M101-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn March 2018, Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM) was an unlikely high-growth company. From its humble origins as a collaborative experiment to create efficiencies for the education sector—an experiment that had lost money and had to be fiStarting at €8.20
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Parcel Guard: Keeping Up with Demand
David Wood; Ali Abdel-RazekCase IVEY-9B20D005-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementIn May 2019, the vice-president of operations at Danby Products Ltd. (Danby) was concerned that the production facility for the company’s latest product, Parcel Guard, would not be able to keep up with demand. Parcel Guard was one of the most anticipatedStarting at €8.20
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Vice Media: Competitive Advantage and Global Expansion
Farzad H. AlviCase IVEY-9B14M039-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyVice Media has gone from a startup in Canada to landing in New York City and assiduously building a global youth brand through unique and seemingly inimitable competitive advantages. While globalizing its operations, Vice Media appears to have developed expertise in standardizing certain aspects of its business, adapting others to local context and, increasingly, building a global chain. Given Vice Media’s explosive growth, how can its global val...Starting at €8.20