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Williams Coffee Pub: The Franchising Opportunity
Gregory S. Zaric; Hui ZhangCase IVEY-9B07E020-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipAn entrepreneur is looking for business opportunities since she immigrated to London, Ontario. She has come across a franchising opportunity with Williams Coffee Pub (WCP). The promotional material for WCP indicates that annual sales for a typical restaurant can be up to $1,700,000 with a profit margin of 17.5 per cent. This business opportunity seems very attractive, however, she must do some additional investigation. The purpose of this case is...Starting at €8.20
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Gold Claim at Sturgeon Lake
Peter C. Bell; Gregory S. ZaricCase IVEY-9B09E018-ECorporate GovernanceAWARD WINNING CASE: 2009 INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Competition, 3rd place. A freelance geologist was asked for advice regarding two mining claims to property on Sturgeon Lake, near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specifically, he was asked if there was enough gold on the property to pursue an economically feasible mining opportunity. The geologist determined that an analytical approach would best aid the analysis of the multiple factors he would ...Starting at €8.20
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Radiation Treatment Machine Capacity Planning at Cancer Care Ontario
Jonathan Wang; Gregory S. ZaricCase IVEY-9B15E014-ECorporate GovernanceA planning analyst at Cancer Care Ontario has been tasked to recommend a strategy for allocating new linear accelerator capacity to the province’s cancer treatment centres over a five-year period. Because the introduction of additional capacity requires the investment of capital resources and long implementation timelines, accurate and timely predictions are critical to the treatment of cancer patients. The planning analyst needs to devise an all...Starting at €8.20
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Pulling the Goalie in Hockey
Gregory S. Zaric; Michael LeffCase IVEY-9B08E001-ECorporate GovernanceThe assistant coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, had just seen the team lose. In order to increase their chance of scoring, they had added a sixth offensive skater to the ice by sending their goaltender to the bench (known as pulling the goalie) in the last 60 seconds of the game. Doing this did not give the team an advantage, in fact, a member of the opposite team was able to shoot the puck into the unguarded net, which cost the Leafs the game. T...Starting at €8.20
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Western Day Care Centre: The Emery Street Expansion
Gregory S. Zaric; Xu ChenCase IVEY-9B08E006-ECorporate GovernanceIn May 2008, the business manager at Western Day Care Centre (WDCC) was considering expanding the company's services at its Emery Street location. WDCC was currently running at full capacity with a continuously growing waiting list and demand for day care services was increasing. The business manager was evaluating the financial feasibility of renovating the first-floor gymnasium and converting it into a classroom. Incorporating the care requirem...Starting at €8.20
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Springbank Drive
Gregory S. Zaric; Leo MacDonaldCase IVEY-9B06E006-ECorporate GovernanceThe City of London was expropriating a portion of Springbank Drive as part of a project to widen the road between Wharncliffe Road and Wonderland Road. The owner of Canning Consultants Inc. was retained by the city to assess the resultant property value loss for the affected residents. The consultant had assembled a database of residential sales along with various property attributes, and had to determine how to proceed in calculating appropriate...Starting at €8.20
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British Columbia NICU Bed Allocation
Gregory S. ZaricCase IVEY-9B10E016-ECorporate GovernanceThe executive director of British Columbia’s Neonatal Services Program was thinking about her last meeting with the officials at the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services (MHS). Following a report indicating that from 2007 to 2008 the province sent 98 expectant mothers and newborns to the United States for treatment, the province was considering adding more neonatal intensive care capacity. Political pressure was mounting after one of Cana...Starting at €8.20
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Barclays' Metals and Mining
Gregory S. ZaricCase IVEY-9B13E009-ECorporate GovernanceAn investment banking associate from the metals and mining group of a multinational financial services company was preparing to accompany his managing director on a client trip to provide a market update and discuss various debt structures the client might use in the future to finance potential development projects. As part of the meeting, the associate wanted to include an analysis of recent trends in prices for platinum, palladium gold and copp...Starting at €8.20
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HomeZilla: Attracting Homebuyers through Better Photos
Gregory S. Zaric; Hongmei SunCase IVEY-9B16E029-ECorporate GovernanceIn November 2014, the founder and chief executive officer of HomeZilla, in Toronto, Canada, was considering how to provide value-added services to his business. One of the company’s main services was to work with real estate agents to provide web listings to attract home shoppers. Many Internet companies were analyzing web-browsing data in an effort to better understand user behaviour and thus improve their business. Inspired by this trend, the f...Starting at €8.20
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The Professor Proposes
Gregory S. Zaric; Michael LeffCase IVEY-9B06E017-ECorporate GovernanceA professor is shopping for a diamond engagement ring. He finds one with certain specifications for a certain price, and wishes to determine if the price of the diamond is fair. He collects data on the prices and characteristics (cut, colour, clarity and carats) of several hundred diamonds from three Internet wholesalers. This case can be used for linear regression analysis with categorical variables as well as other statistical techniques.Starting at €8.20