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A Student's Dilemma: Rent or Buy
Mehmet A. Begen; Caitlin Neal; Sabriya KarimCase IVEY-9B14E013-EInformation TechnologiesWhenever an investment is made, there are always costs and benefits. This case set in 2013 explores, based on quantitative and qualitative factors, a decision that a typical student at university might face. The decision to rent a house or purchase one in order to rent out the additional rooms is a difficult one. All of the pros and cons of each option need to be carefully considered. An Excel spreadsheet is available for students (see 7B14E013).Starting at €8.20
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Women's Community House and Mine101: Is Social Enterprise Worth It
Colleen SharenCase IVEY-9B14M095-EAccounting and Control, Entrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2013, the director of transitional and community programs at Women’s Community House (WCH) must decide whether to renew the retail lease on WCH’s used-clothing boutique, Mine101. This social enterprise was launched to generate income for WCH’s children’s programming, but lost money in its first two years of operations. The decision to renew the lease begs a larger question: Should Women’s Community House continue to operate Mine101? The di...Starting at €8.20
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Deloitte Recommends Client Selection to Regency Bank
Mehmet A. Begen; Stacey YueCase IVEY-9B11E005-ECorporate GovernanceA large financial institution has acquired a sizable portfolio of new clients of travel (corporate expense) cards. The bank must decide on the optimal mix of clients to retain in order to achieve the goals of maximizing profitability, entering a new product market successfully, and maintaining reputation. The optimal mix depends on a number of different factors, including annual account spending level, complexity of serving the account, the numbe...Starting at €8.20
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Mistral Energy: A Tale of Two Power Markets
Mehmet A. Begen; Andrew CornhillCase IVEY-9B14E011-ECorporate GovernanceMistral Energy is looking to build a $40 million power plant in close proximity to both the Alberta and Saskatchewan power markets. The Alberta market is deregulated and the price fluctuates hourly with supply and demand. The Saskatchewan market, on the other hand, is a regulated monopoly. Mistral Energy needs to understand into which market they should sell their power. Because the prices available in Saskatchewan are unknown, Mistral is particu...Starting at €8.20
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St. John the Compassionate Mission: Organizational Culture and Leadership
Colleen SharenCase IVEY-9B14C001-ELeadership and People ManagementIn May 2013, the founder and executive director of the St. John the Compassionate Mission, a faith-based, non-profit social service organization located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, needs to plan for his retirement. He has been the driving force behind the organization for the past 27 years, and it reflects his vision that meaningful work helps people get off welfare, attaining dignity and a sense of personal value in the process. To that end, th...Starting at €8.20
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Health Nut
Colleen Sharen; Vanessa M. StrikeCase IVEY-9B08M053-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyLate in the afternoon on January 20, 2006, one of the owners of The Health Nut hung up the phone. Her account manager had just called to tell her that the bank was not going to extend any further credit to her small retail natural health products (NHP) store located in Grand Bend, Ontario. She and her life and business partner had owned The Health Nut since May 2003. While they had successfully grown sales, the business was not generating enough ...Starting at €8.20
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The Piercer
Colleen Sharen; Nicole NolanCase IVEY-9B08M057-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyJessica Pierce and Ashley Mound have developed an innovative product for an entrepreneurship class assignment to be presented to potential investors. They now need to determine 1) which target markets have the most potential, 2) which distribution channels to use and 3) a sales volume estimate. The purpose of the case is to teach students how to use secondary research resources from a typical library to research the nature of the market for a new...Starting at €8.20
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Spreading Happiness: Warm Fuzz Cards
Colleen SharenCase IVEY-9B09M039-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn December 2008, Erica Mills and her husband, Craig, were making plans. They had recently decided to start a family within the next 12 months and were now making decisions about how to manage their careers as they were about to take this momentous step. Erica had started Warm Fuzz Cards, a Toronto-based greeting card company, just over two years ago in 2006. The business was growing slowly but profitably. Craig was employed as a human resources ...Starting at €8.20
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Foundation for International Development Assistance/Productive Cooperatives Haiti: Increasing Organizational Capacity
Colleen SharenCase IVEY-9B12A037-EMarketing, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Best Case Award, 2013 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference. Since the 2010 earthquake, the executive director of the Foundation for International Development Assistance (FIDA) had been managing exploding demand for economic development from Haitians, the international development community and from individual Canadians. While there was a lot of money available for earthquake relief and micro-finance...Starting at €8.20
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Alice Saddy: Caring for the Community
Colleen SharenCase IVEY-9B08C016-ELeadership and People ManagementThe human resources manager at the Alice Saddy Association (Alice Saddy), a non-profit agency in London, Ontario, Canada, supporting people with developmental disabilities who lived independently rather than in group homes, informed the executive director that some of the support workers believed that the current organizational structure caused confusion, slowed decision making and created potential risk for the people served by Alice Saddy. The ...Starting at €8.20