Ivey Business School (Canada)
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BNL Stores - Teaching Note
Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Paul CruzTeaching Note IVEY-8B12B027-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product 9B12B027.Starting at €0.00
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RBI and the Great White North Franchisee Association - Teaching Note
Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Mitchell Stein; Hashu RahimTeaching Note IVEY-8B19B002-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product 9B19B002.Starting at €0.00
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Toshiba's Westinghouse Dilemma
Mitchell Stein; Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Eden IpCase IVEY-9B20B002-EAccounting and Control, StrategyIn October 2017, the managing director at Ohtani Capital faced a critical decision—should the company divest its long-term investment in Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba)? Recent events surrounding Toshiba's disagreement with its auditor over how to best report the writedown of its US nuclear power unit (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC) had negatively impacted the company’s profitability and internal management, leading to the company’s possible delist...Starting at €8.20
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Highland Malt: Accounting Policy Choices in Financial Statements - Teaching Note
Mitchell Stein; Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Erik SteinTeaching Note IVEY-8B20B013-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product 9B20B013.Starting at €0.00
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Mystery Corporations Challenge
Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Eeshan Paranjape; Evan HuangExercise IVEY-9B14B005-EAccounting and ControlThe case presents students with common size balance sheets, financial ratios and related financial information. Students are required to correctly identify a series of corporations in distinctive industries based solely on their analysis of this financial data.Starting at €8.20
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Amazon.com: Evolving Into Offline Retail - Teaching Note
Won-Yong OhTeaching Note IVEY-8B18M026-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B18M026.Starting at €0.00
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FNB codeFest: Fostering Corporate Innovation through In-House Hackathons
Jeff Yu-Jen Chen; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19M030-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPeter Alkema, chief information officer of Business Banking at First National Bank in Johannesburg, was puzzling over ways to ensure that codeFest, the event he had inaugurated, would continue to thrive beyond 2018 without his direct involvement. His brainchild had begun in 2015 as a one-day hackathon with 100 participants. Three years later, it had grown to become a six-day coding and innovation extravaganza. Now, in May 2018, Alkema wondered wh...Starting at €8.20
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AT&T Wireless: Text Messaging
Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Mitchell Stein; Michael LickverCase IVEY-9B11B005-EAccounting and Control, Marketing, StrategyThis case examines AT&T’s wireless business with a focus on its text messaging services. The industry features a high proportion of fixed costs in relation to acquiring spectrum and building a network. Variable costs are relatively low, especially in the case of SMS text messages. Pricing and margins in text messaging have attracted regulatory scrutiny in the Unites States, Canada, and elsewhere. The case requires the use of key concepts in cost ...Starting at €8.20
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United Airlines: Frequent Flyer Program
Won-Yong OhCase IVEY-9B16M037-EStrategyFrom 1980 to 2010, frequent flyer programs (FFPs) had evolved from simple customer reward programs to independent profit-generation business models. The airline industry had seen enormous success with FFPs, which had become businesses of their own. In June 2014, however, United Airlines announced that as of March 1, 2015, it would move from awarding miles based on distance flown to awarding miles for dollars spent per ticket, following in the foo...Starting at €8.20
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Nordstrom: Expansion into Canada
Won-Yong Oh; Duane MyerCase IVEY-9B16M185-EStrategyIn August 2016, it had been almost two years since American fashion retailer Nordstrom opened its first Canadian store in Calgary. Nordstrom believed Canada to be an ideal location for its global expansion. Executives identified the country as a potential US$1 billion opportunity with no language barrier and a population with a higher average income than in the United States. Despite this enticing potential market, Nordstrom executives entered Ca...Starting at €8.20