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Sears Canada (A)
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13D014-EService and Operations ManagementSears Canada’s associate vice-president of sustainability faces dilemmas in executing a strategy to reduce the retailer’s carbon footprint. He needs to integrate the concept of sustainability into the company’s larger corporate objectives, drive the concept in individual business units and identify the metrics for tracking the progress of reducing Sears Canada’s carbon footprint.The (B) case, 9B13D015, is positioned two years later, when the asso...Starting at €8.20
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Sonnen Trucking Company
Stephan Vachon; Tessa WeidnerCase IVEY-9B15D005-EService and Operations ManagementIn January 2013, the new chief executive officer of the Sonnen Trucking Company, a family-owned business, is considering how to reduce fleet insurance costs. As profit margins are very tight and continuing to shrink, she has to think about variables she can control in order to affect the bottom line positively. Insurance costs are the logical item to address since they are based on the company’s safety and accident records and the extent that it ...Starting at €8.20
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Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (D)
Terry H. Deutscher; Michael R. Pearce; Diane SilvaCase IVEY-9B11A011-EMarketingIn this supplement to Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (A), the Simply Fresh team is preparing a formal debrief of the program thus far.Starting at €5.74
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Re-Matt Inc.: Scaling the Mattress Recycling Operations
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B17D023-EIn January 2017, the owner of Re-Matt Inc. (Re-Matt), a mattress recycling operation, was considering the way forward for the business he had developed in the city of Calgary, Alberta. Re-Matt was a unique enterprise in Alberta where municipalities, both urban and rural, had been categorizing mattresses as waste, and sending them to landfills for disposal, for decades. Re-Matt’s business was diverting used mattresses from landfills and recycling ...Starting at €8.20
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Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (B)
Terry H. Deutscher; Michael R. Pearce; Diane SilvaCase IVEY-9B11A009-EMarketingIn this supplement to Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (A), the launch team is preparing for questions that senior management is expected to ask (before giving the final go-ahead) about how the team plans to mitigate risks during the launch.Starting at €5.74
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Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (C)
Terry H. Deutscher; Michael R. Pearce; Diane SilvaCase IVEY-9B11A010-EMarketingIn this supplement to Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (A), the results of the first year after the launch and the next challenges the team faces are discussed.Starting at €5.74
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Sears Canada (B)
Stephan Vachon; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13D015-EService and Operations ManagementThis is a supplement to 9B13D014.Starting at €5.74
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Maple Leaf Simply Fresh (A)
Terry H. Deutscher; Michael R. Pearce; Diane SilvaCase IVEY-9B11A008-EMarketingA new line of chilled ready meals has been developed after significant technological breakthroughs in food processing by Maple Leaf Consumer Foods. The chilled ready meals category in Canada is expected to exceed $200 million by 2011, and plans call for Maple Leaf to own more than half the category by that time. In the (A) case in this four-part series, the vice president of innovation and brand development is convening a group meeting to finaliz...Starting at €8.20
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Erie Thames Powerlines: The Hybrid Truck Decision
Stephan Vachon; Ryan MallanyCase IVEY-9B16B020-EAccounting and ControlErie Thames Powerlines, an electricity distributor in Southwestern Ontario, needed to determine the suitability of the company acquiring a hybrid truck as opposed to a conventional diesel utility truck. As of early July 2016, the truck suppliers (for both hybrid and diesel trucks) and the internal accounting department had provided substantial information with which to conduct a thorough analysis. The company also wanted to include some qualitati...Starting at €8.20