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Stewarding the Soil: An Ontario Farmer’s Quest for Regenerative Agricultural Practices
Wren Montgomery; Pratima Bansal; Melanie Issett; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B20M013-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBlake Vince is a fifth-generation farmer who adheres to seemingly unconventional farming techniques. Most farmers in southwestern Ontario use conventional industrial farming methods such as tilling their fields, relying on pesticides and fertilizers, and monocropping (i.e., planting the same crops on the same plot of land year after year). Vince, however, embraces more regenerative agricultural practices (such as no-till farming, wherein the top ...Starting at €8.20
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Australia: materias primas y competitividad
Alfaro, Laura; Vietor, Richard H.K.; Russell, William; White, Hilary; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-713S07EconomicsEn los últimos decenios, Australia se ha ocupado de los beneficios y costos de repetidos auges mineros-inflación, una burbuja inmobiliaria, un déficit en cuenta corriente y la creciente dependencia de China. Entre 1996 y 2007, sin embargo, Australia tenía la mayor parte de estos problemas bajo control y creció a un ritmo impresionante, convirtiéndose en uno de los más ricos de los países desarrollados. Sin embargo, la competitividad en sus sector...Starting at €8.20
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Maple Leaf Foods: Changing the System
Pratima Bansal; Wren Montgomery; Karen MacMillanCase IVEY-9B20M174-EStrategyThe Maple Leaf Foods (MLF): Changing the System case explores how a major food processor pivoted its vision and operations in an attempt to become the world’s most sustainable protein company. Instead of focusing solely on financial goals, the organizatioStarting at €8.20
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Australia: Commodities and Competitiveness
Alfaro, Laura; Vietor, Richard H.K.; Russell, William; White, Hilary; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-713015-EEconomicsFor the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control and grew at impressive rates, becoming one of the richest of developed countries. Yet competitiveness in its non-mining sectors declined. Since the financial crisis, additional chall...Starting at €8.20
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Rio Tinto and the Indigenous Juukan Gorge Sites
Amy Moore; Wren Montgomery; W. Glenn Rowe; Abbas KhambatiCase IVEY-W28178-EKnowledge and CommunicationIn May, 2020, Rio Tinto PLC, a global mining company, blasted a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in the Juukan Gorge, an area in Western Australia. While Rio Tinto’s actions were legal, the company was nonetheless widely criticized for its blasting of the sacred site, which contained remains and artefacts dating back tens of thousands of years. Furthermore, investigations revealed that Rio Tinto had knowledge of the sacred nature of the site. Inte...Starting at €8.20