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Ferio Pugliese: Leading WestJet's New Carrier Encore
Gerard Seijts; Jean-Louis Schaan; Robert WayCase IVEY-9B15C008-ELeadership and People ManagementIn early 2014, Ferio Pugliese looked back on his turbulent first year as president of WestJet Airlines Ltd.’s new regional air service Encore. Encore represented the company’s most significant organizational change in its 18 years of dramatic growth. Expanding the airline’s fleet to include smaller, short-haul aircraft that could service smaller destinations throughout Western Canada had not been without growing pains. For example, a number of em...Starting at €8.20
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Viterra
Goldberg, Ray A.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-913401-EService and Operations ManagementAs Mayo Schmidt's tenure as CEO of the Canadian-based agribusiness Viterra wound down before its sale to the Swiss-based commodity company Glencore, he reflected on his tenure, which had seen the firm grow from a Canadian-focused agricultural cooperative to an international agribusiness with operations across the globe, including significant operations in Australia. Now he wondered: What would the future hold for agriculture?Starting at €8.20
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Viterra, Teaching Note
Goldberg, Ray A.Teaching Note HBS-913403-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for case 913401.Starting at €0.00
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Triage at Rouge Valley Health System
Gerard Seijts; Robert WayCase IVEY-9B14C014-ELeadership and People ManagementIn late 2006, the Rouge Valley Health System’s board of directors began to grasp the gravity of the leadership challenge set before them: rescue the amalgamated Scarborough Centenary Hospital and the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital, which was financially a “basket case,” or face an imposed government takeover. A recently completed independent peer review conducted from June through November 2007 came down hard on the former senior leadership ...Starting at €8.20
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A New Vision for the Stratford Festival
Gerard Seijts; Robert WayCase IVEY-9B17C048-ELeadership and People ManagementIn January 2016, the executive director of Canada's Stratford Festival, one of North America's largest repertory theatre companies, was considering the festival's long-term outlook and the role the organization played in the community. The 2015 season had been successful, and she would be able to report a small surplus to the board at the upcoming annual general meeting. But the long-term outlook wasn't as secure. Annual attendance had dropped be...Starting at €8.20
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IdentiGEN
Goldberg, Ray A.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-914408-EService and Operations ManagementCiaran Meghen and Ronan Loftus, co-founders of IdentiGEN (an Irish company that had created a unique service called DNA TraceBack to help customers identify and trace meat products), were discussing the company's future. The recent crisis over beef products being contaminated with horsemeat in Europe had generated strong demand for IdentiGEN's services. But more than this, DNA TraceBack gave customers strong insight into their operations to ensur...Starting at €8.20
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IdentiGEN, Teaching Plan
Goldberg, Ray A.; Preble, MatthewTeaching Note HBS-914410-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for 914408.Starting at €0.00