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Alberta Ballet: Proposal for Growth
Edmund Gee; Peggy HedgesCase IVEY-9B15M097-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAlberta Ballet, composed of the Alberta Ballet professional dance company and The School of Alberta Ballet, had experienced remarkable success in North America and Europe. However, in 2014, it faced a set of unique problems. Demand for performances from the company had grown so significantly that it was no longer able to accommodate all requests, especially from smaller markets in Alberta. Coupled with increasing demand, operations were fragmente...Starting at €8.20
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Tomasso Corporation: Including Spirituality in the Organizational Culture (B)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-155-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThis case follows on from case A, and begins with Rob McKenzie's decision to fire the 11 recalcitrant staff, and shows how he does this in accord with the spiritual and humanistic values outlined in "Our Project". It then goes on to show how he gradually introduced the company's guiding values to all aspects of its daily management.Starting at €5.74
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Tomasso Corporation: Incorporando espiritualidad en la cultura empresarial (A)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-154Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl director ejecutivo y propietario único de la compañía considera la empresa como apoyada en dos columnas, una edificada con aspectos económicos y otra con aspectos humanos. Ambas columnas están en continua tensión pero se equilibran, a modo de piedra angular, por fuerzas interiores que hay que buscar en la trascendencia. Esta piedra angular tiene que dar lugar a decisiones armónicas, justas y humanas, sin olvidar la necesidad primaria de obten...Starting at €8.20
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Tomasso Corporation: Including Spirituality in the Organizational Culture (A)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-154-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThis case traces the history of Tomasso Corp: Starting as a small, family-run business in Montreal, it was always run in a "family way", with close and easy relations between the workforce and the owners. On expanding, in the 1980s, ownership was transferred to another corporation, and the increased workforce, combined with more rational management techniques, soon led to a breakdown in relations between management and the workforce. With the dep...Starting at €8.20
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Tomasso Corporation: Incorporando espiritualidad en la cultura empresarial (B)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-155Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl nuevo Director General despide a 13 directivos y técnicos del mejor modo posible, siguiendo las pautas establecidas, y contrata con sumo cuidado a quienes los sustituirán. Toma diversas medidas para mejorar la comunicación y el trato humano. Aplica con tesón diversas ?herramientas? de gestión humana y espiritual obteniendo muy buenos resultados. En dos años, las puntuaciones de la encuesta de clima laboral mejoran sensiblemente y los problemas...Starting at €5.74
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Brookfield Residential Properties: Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders
Norm Althouse; Peggy Hedges; Cheryl BrazellCase IVEY-9B17M148-EStrategyIn early summer 2012, Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (Brookfield), a Calgary-based residential property developer with holdings throughout North America, had an opportunity to develop a vacant site in the inner-city community of Scarboro, in the southwest quadrant of Calgary. Brookfield did not own the site but was working with the landowner to request that the city of Calgary rezone the site from single family to Direct Control to allow ...Starting at €8.20
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Canadian Orthodontics Practice: Bracing for Patients
Janice Eliasson; Brent Snider; Peggy HedgesExercise IVEY-W26090-EService and Operations Management, StrategyDr. Jay Jayson, an orthodontist, had recently completed renovating the waiting area of his office and now needed to decide whether he should also renovate the treatment areas. He considered the advantages and disadvantages of his current clinic setup: he thought that the reception environment was comfortable, and that the patients felt confident in the treatment and process, but he was concerned about the impact on patients of any delays in care....Starting at €8.20