Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Niagara Health System: An Innovative Communications Strategy (B)
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Andrew ScarffeCase IVEY-9B15M023-EStrategySupplement to 9B15M022.Starting at €5.74
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Strongest Families
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Heidi CrammCase IVEY-9B13M133-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyStrongest Families is a 12-week distance treatment program for children with various mental health disorders and their families. The program was started in Nova Scotia in 2001 to address issues of stigma, lack of access to primary care specialists and difficulty of obtaining care, especially in rural areas. To meet these needs, the program utilizes long-distance communication methods such as weekly telephone meetings with trained personnel who ar...Starting at €8.20
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UltraTech Cement: A Transition towards Behaviour-Based Safety
Servjaeta Verma; Ravi Kant DubeyCase IVEY-9B18C023-ELeadership and People ManagementUltraTech Cement Limited was a global leading producer of cement that had implemented best-in-class safety practices at all of its units. Despite this, the company’s Rawan Cement Works plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, had witnessed some serious safety incidents in the past, and these had resulted in lowered employee morale. A close analysis revealed that un-safe conduct by employees was partly responsible for the accidents, and that there wa...Starting at €8.20
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Desi Hangover: Circular Transition of a Conscious Fashion Brand
Servjaeta VermaCase IVEY-W27249-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyDesi Hangover, an Indian company empowering artisans to manufacture handcrafted leather footwear, was a finalist at Lakmé Fashion Week in 2020 in the category of Circular Changemakers. The chief executive officer had a dream of establishing his company as a leading circular economy fashion brand, and now he had a chance to pitch his vision of the future. But his core team had reservations and worried about the cost and risk of transitioning fully...Starting at €8.20
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Cancer Care Ontario: An Innovation Strategy for Managing Wait Times
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Kevin Bernard; Hannah Standing RasmussenCase IVEY-9B14M053-EStrategyCancer Care Ontario, the organization that oversees cancer treatment in Ontario, is challenged with establishing an innovative approach to reducing wait times for breast cancer and prostate cancer therapy across Ontario after wait times increased to more than two months. The special advisor on cancer issues to the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care needs to report his recommendation to Cancer Care Ontario’s board of directors, who mana...Starting at €8.20
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Time for a Change at The Change Foundation
Anne Snowdon; Alexander SmithCase IVEY-9B14M087-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Change Foundation is an independent charitable foundation founded in 1996 by the Ontario Hospital Association with the mandate to promote, support and improve health and the delivery of health care in Ontario. In 2006, its board of directors undertook a renewal process to evaluate its strategic directions and measure the value-add of progress to date. A planning session with a variety of key stakeholders had resulted in the development of a d...Starting at €8.20
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Wild Chef Limited: Scaling Up a Cloud-Based Restaurant
Servjaeta VermaCase IVEY-9B18A007-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyWild Chef Limited (Wild Chef) was a multi-cuisine restaurant operating a take-away and delivery format in Delhi’s National Capital Region. It adopted the emerging concept of cloud kitchen in July 2016, considering the promising opportunities offered by the rapidly growing food-technology market in India. Key strategic decisions helped Wild Chef achieve its operational break-even point in its third month, and after one year, the owners were consid...Starting at €8.20
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SARS Outbreak in Toronto
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Mohammad AuaisCase IVEY-9B13M101-EStrategyIn the spring of 2003, the World Health Organization identified a worldwide epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that had started in China and spread to the rest of the world, with early cases reported in Toronto and Vancouver. Little was known about the disease, which meant that symptoms were often misdiagnosed as simple flu, and the infection spread rapidly. After the third SARS-related death occurred in Ontario in mid-March, th...Starting at €8.20
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Innovative Public Health in Alberta: Scalability Challenge
Anne Snowdon; Krista PettitCase IVEY-9B13M067-EStrategyIn 2011, the Alberta government launched an aggressive campaign to raise awareness about the growing rate of syphilis in the province. It launched an incredibly successful campaign that incorporated elements of social media that went viral. Though awareness was raised, the health system struggled to keep up with demand. The case deals with the challenges faced by the different areas of the health care system in receiving approval for the campaign...Starting at €8.20
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Organizational Transformation at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Anne Snowdon; Karin Schnarr; Alexander KunschCase IVEY-9B14M083-EStrategyIn 1997, the Ontario Health Services Restructuring Committee mandated the merger of four facilities that treated patients with mental health and addiction issues to create what was later named the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. This new centre, to be situated in Toronto, would provide support and clinical care to those suffering from illnesses such as schizophrenia, anxiety and mood disorders, as well as substance addictions. In 1999, th...Starting at €8.20