Ivey Business School (Canada)
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The Spinach King: Scaling Opportunity in Social Enterprise - Teaching Note
Kerrin Myres; Anastacia MamaboloTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M138-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M138.Starting at €0.00
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South African Chefs Association: Maintaining a Non-Profit Organization - Teaching Note
Anastacia Mamabolo; Charlene LewTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M222-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M222.Starting at €0.00
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South African Chefs Association: Maintaining a Non-Profit Organization
Anastacia Mamabolo; Charlene LewCase IVEY-9B20M222-EStrategyIn February 2020, the president of South African Chefs Association was exploring ways to ensure a sustained revenue stream for the association, which relied primarily on membership fees for survival. As a non-profit organization, South African Chefs Association had a rich history of representing chefs, enabling them to compete on the international stage, supporting their training and education, and providing members with networking opportunities ...Starting at €8.20
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Uber Africa: Making Cash and Alternative Payments Work in Kenya through Contextual Leadership - Teaching Note
Caren Scheepers; Anastacia MamaboloTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M019-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M019.Starting at €0.00
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Escapes Outdoor Living Designs Inc.
Michael Sider; Richard BloomfieldCase IVEY-9B14M044-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe owner of Escapes Outdoor Living Designs (Escapes) must decide what to do with his small landscaping and construction business. Escapes has been doing well, but has not had any sustainable growth over five years. The owner feels the business lacks focus and will need a good strategy in order to grow successfully. Facing problems with employee retention and shifting market opportunities, he has to perform an in-depth analysis of his current bus...Starting at €8.20
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Marineland and the Mayor
Michael Sider; Ahn HoangCase IVEY-9B13M063-EStrategyThe mayor of one of Canada’s largest tourist destination cities has to decide how to handle the media outcry that followed a major newspaper story in which eight former staffers at the local, popular aquatic zoo accused the zoo of treating its animals with severe cruelty. His initial response was perceived by many as being too glib and favouring the marine park, which is an important source of revenue for the city. Although he is no expert on ani...Starting at €8.20
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Greenpeace's Unfriend Coal Campaign and Facebook
Michael Sider; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12M011-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyFacebook’s director of policy communications was faced with a situation caused by a YouTube video posted by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Greenpeace. This video publicly critiqued the environmental sustainability of Facebook’s decision to build a new data centre, its main objection being that the new facility would be connected to a local utility provider that supplied electricity mainly from the burning of coal, one of the largest sour...Starting at €8.20
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YouPostIt! Communicating the Value of a New Business
Michael Sider; Daniel SamoshCase IVEY-9B12A002-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingThe director of new business development and strategy at Redmas Digital, an enterprising start-up, needs to write two sales e-mail templates for Redmas’s newest pet project, YouPostIt! One of the e-mails is for leads that the company has not done business with before (cold leads) and the other is for leads that the company has done business with before (warm leads). The director has to write concise e-mails with high “skim value.” He must distill...Starting at €8.20
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Carnegie Industrial: The Leadership Development Centre
Michael Sider; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B08C002-ELeadership and People ManagementA director within the leadership development program of a large multinational organization must decide how to manage a very difficult conversation she must have with her assistant director. The assistant director, who is older and more experienced (although less educated), interviewed for the director's position and didn't get it. The assistant director has never been happy reporting to her much younger boss, and has felt consistently left out of...Starting at €8.20
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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Releasing New Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening (A)
Gregory S. Zaric; Michael Sider; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B14M020-EStrategyIn late October 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of primary care experts, was preparing to release their updated guidelines for the use of screening mammograms, which were given to women in an attempt to detect evidence of breast cancer at a treatable stage. The new guidelines, based on rigorous scientific research and tests, now recommended routine screening starting at age 50 rather than at age 40. Th...Starting at €8.20