Ivey Business School (Canada)
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The Plastilene Group: Sustainable Innovation Strategy
Ricardo Estrada; Juan Carlos Rodríguez; Michael RiveraCase IVEY-9B21M022-EStrategyIn 2020, the corporate purchasing and sustainability manager at the Plastilene Group (a plastics producer based in Colombia) needed to address a sustainability challenge. In response to media and legislative attacks and consumer behaviour changes regarding the use of plastic products globally, the corporate purchasing and sustainability manager, supported by the company’s chief executive officer, was tasked with leading a strategic renewal in the...Starting at €8.20
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Art Feeds: Scaling a Non-profit Organization
Colleen Sharen; Tess WiddifieldCase IVEY-9B14M159-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early June 2013, the executive director of Art Feeds, which provided therapeutic art and creative education to school children to help them achieve mental and emotional well-being, needed to make a recommendation to her board about whether to expand the current operations in Joplin, Missouri, to Moore, Oklahoma, after a devastating tornado in Moore. She needed to determine whether the organization had the resources required to expand successfu...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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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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Temple Health System: Real-Time Feedback & People Analytics (A)
Tony Petrucci; Michael RiveraCase IVEY-9B20C018-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2017, Dr. Gordon Morewood, chair of anesthesiology at Temple University Health System (Temple Health) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, faced a rapidly changing health care environment. Responsible for training anesthesiology residents and for all anesthesiology patient care across Temple Health’s system, Morewood faced rising expectations for improving patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and financial performance. Communication in health car...Starting at €8.20
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Temple Health System: Real-Time Feedback & People Analytics (B)
Tony Petrucci; Michael RiveraCase IVEY-9B20C019-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement for product 9B20C018.Starting at €5.74
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The Plastilene Group: Sustainable Innovation Strategy - Teaching Note
Ricardo Estrada; Juan Carlos Rodríguez; Michael RiveraTeaching Note IVEY-8B21M022-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B21M022.Starting at €0.00
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Temple Health System: Real-Time Feedback & People Analytics - Teaching Note
Tony Petrucci; Michael RiveraTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C018-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for products 9B20C018 and 9B20C019.Starting at €0.00
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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