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Negotiating a New Agreement (A): The NFLPA and NFL Owners
Ann Frost, Justin PattersonExercise IVEY-9B21C029-ELeadership and People ManagementThis negotiating exercise is set at the time of the 2020 round of collective bargaining between the National Football League (NFL) owners and representatives from the NFL Players Association. The six parties at the bargaining table (three representativesStarting at €8.20
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Improving a Hockey Team
Hubert Pun; Josh WeinsteinExercise IVEY-9B18E005-ECorporate GovernanceIn November 2017, a fan of hockey watched his favourite team lose 6–4 against a contending team. After a great start to the season with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss, his favourite team had lost 6 of the last 8 games, dropping their record to 8 wins and 7 losses. The fan knew that the time was approaching for the inevitable discussions with his friends regarding the team's success. Which players should they have signed? Which player should the te...Starting at €8.20
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Travelling Thai Ltd.
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jessica KellyExercise IVEY-9B12B017-EAccounting and ControlA company that has a fleet of food trucks serving Thai food has issued bonds twice since its incorporation. Because the company has reached a level of maturity and is in the sixth year of operations, it is able to recall a portion of one of the bonds. The other bonds mature. Students are asked to record the transactions related to these bonds.Starting at €8.20
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Fresh Air Communications
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jessica KellyExercise IVEY-9B12B019-EAccounting and ControlA large, well-established telecommunications company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, has decided to begin an overhaul of its infrastructure, beginning with a small pilot project. The case centres around the bonds used to finance this project, the short-term investments made with portions of the bond proceeds, and the company's outstanding common shares.Starting at €8.20
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Interest rate swaps pricing - Exercises
Martínez Abascal, EduardoExercise FE-32-EFinanceThese problems are intended to give the student an opportunity to practice with the fixed income mathematics and also to give some exposure to international bond markets. The problems are based on the information containned on FN-314, Exhibit 2, Tables 12 to 15, from the Wall Street Journal Europe (WSJE) and the Finacial Times (FT).Starting at €8.20
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Yellowhead Petroleum Limited
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jessica KellyExercise IVEY-9B12B020-EAccounting and ControlFinancial accounting entries must be made for a small Canadian oil and gas exploration and drilling company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, for a project in northern Saskatchewan.Starting at €8.20
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Broadband-X: Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation
Mustafa Fatih YegulExercise IVEY-9B20E021-EInformation TechnologiesBroadband-X, is a small-sized electronic contract manufacturing company. The company had been using QuickBooks accounting package and Excel sheets to manage its processes. As the company grew, Brian, the owner, noticed that the current model was not capabStarting at €8.20
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Analyzing the Success of “Retailers”
Neil Bendle; Xin (Shane) WangExercise IVEY-9B15A045-EMarketingKelsey, a newly minted MBA hired by a firm that provides analysis of companies, has been given a task to present an assessment of six very different firms described by her manager as “retailers.” She has been given the performance details of these companies and is expected to quickly analyze the metrics related to the firms’ performance, such as return on assets, inventory turns and staff productivity. Her manager also wants her to assess and com...Starting at €8.20
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Revenue Maximization: Apartment Rental Units
Karen Shastri; Steven OnaitisExercise IVEY-9B17B003-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipIn the summer of 2016, a real estate investment company was planning management and budgeting for apartment rental units in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a U.S. city with a large student population. The company needed to determine the various unit agreement terms—by year, by semester (fall, spring, and summer), and by month—using software to find optimal rents. Using Excel’s Solver tool, the optimal rents needed to be determined and incorporated into...Starting at €8.20
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Newstar Magazine Exercise: Managing Editor Role
Andrew Stevens; Ann C. FrostExercise IVEY-9B17C050-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the Newstar Magazine exercise, participants are assigned one of three roles—managing editor, publisher, or board chair—and provided with information about personnel difficulties that have emerged at the independent Canadian magazine. The organization is small, financially strapped, and conflict has appeared within the magazine’s leadership. The objective of the exercise is to understand the source of this conflict and ultimately to resolve it....Starting at €8.20