Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Wichita County Health Center: Strategic Planning
Arthur DaemmrichCase IVEY-9B16M084-EStrategyIn 2015, the new chief executive officer of Wichita County Health Center (WCHC) was evaluating his organization’s strengths and weaknesses in light of a changing environment for health-care delivery in rural Kansas. WCHC faced three key issues: whether to sign a service agreement with Colorado-based Centura Health; whether to hire additional full-time nursing staff instead of paying high fees to an external staffing company; and identifying oppor...Starting at €8.20
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Children’s Hospital Oakland: End-of-Life Dilemmas
Arthur Daemmrich; Lauren DavisCase IVEY-9B16C007-ELeadership and People ManagementAfter suffering severe complications from a relatively minor surgery at a California children’s hospital in early December 2013, a young teenage girl was declared brain dead. However, to her family, the girl seemed responsive and they refused to accept the hospital’s statement that their daughter was deceased. The hospital arranged visits with social workers and other staff in an attempt to help the family understand that their daughter was dead ...Starting at €8.20
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Facebook to Meta: Trouble in the Transformation
Bikramjit Rishi; Rajkumari Mittal; Parul SinhaCase IVEY-W32670-EDecision Analysis, EntrepreneurshipFacebook Inc. (Facebook) rebranded to Meta Platforms Inc. (Meta) in October 2021, intending to break into the virtual world of immersive technologies. However, Meta soon found itself in trouble after an eventful year in the virtual reality industry. The number of Meta users was declining, and first-time Meta users were not coming back. Users were complaining about underdeveloped graphics, programming troubles, instability, and overall poor user e...Starting at €8.20