Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Mobile Blood Donor Clinic: A Discrete Event Simulation Model
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B17E010-ECorporate GovernanceIn 2017, while donating blood on campus, a management science graduate student noticed that the mobile blood donor clinic set up at his university’s community centre was a congested tandem queuing system. Finding one-and-one-half hours too long for donors to wait, the student considered how the process could be reduced by at least half an hour. He needed to devise a reasonably precise model to represent the donor flow in the clinic. Using either ...Starting at €8.20
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Camp Wahanowin (Spanish version)
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Eric SilverbergCase IVEY-9B12AS03MarketingEl propietario y director de un campamento residencial de verano para niños reconoce la necesidad de hacer algunos cambios para la próxima temporada. Su objetivo principal es aumentar el número de campistas. Específicamente, se necesitan iniciativas de venta para reforzar las sesiones de agosto, un mes cuando el campamento experimenta disminución de matrícula. Tiene algunas decisiones claves, incluyendo en qué grupo enfocar, cómo promover las ses...Starting at €8.20
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LHSC Multi-Organ Transplant Program: Pooling Ontario's Kidney Transplant Wait-Lists
Fredrik Odegaard; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B18E020-EDecision AnalysisIn 2017, wait times for kidney transplants in Ontario were getting out of hand. While patients from London Health Sciences Centre’s kidney transplant program in London, Ontario, had a reasonable wait of approximately one year, patients in Toronto's kidney transplant program waited almost four years. In an attempt to improve the overall wait times for all Ontario patients, the provincial Ministry of Health intended to merge the two currently indep...Starting at €8.20
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Mobiroo Inc.
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Eric SilverbergCase IVEY-9B12M083-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe founder and chief executive officer of Mobiroo Inc. must make several decisions regarding the future of his mobile application (app) gift card company. Mobiroo had created the first app gift card for Android and Blackberry users ? similar to the iTunes gift card for iPhone users. Over the past two years, the company had experienced phenomenal growth in the business-to-business space, selling a white-labelled app storefront to mobile carriers ...Starting at €8.20
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Camp Wahanowin
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Eric SilverbergCase IVEY-9B12A003-EMarketingThe owner and director of a residential summer camp for children recognizes the need to make some changes to achieve his primary objective of increasing the number of campers. Specifically, marketing initiatives are needed to bolster the August sessions, a month when the camp experiences declining enrolment. He has some key decisions to make, including which group to target, how to promote the camp sessions, and what to charge for any new product...Starting at €8.20
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South West Health Centre: Improving Patient Flow in the Intensive Care Unit
Rasha Kashef; Felipe RodriguesCase IVEY-9B19E007-EDecision AnalysisHospitals frequently deal with congestion and blockage that affects patient flow and increased costs. In 2018, at University Hospital, part of South West Health Centre, patient flow in the medical surgical intensive care unit seemed to be highly susceptible to congestion, and this was creating ripple effects throughout the hospital and leading to increased costs. The complexity of patient flow presented an opportunity to build a discrete-event si...Starting at €8.20