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David E. White: Executive Direct Line
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Gregory CritchleyCase IVEY-9B15A017-EMarketingThe owner of a fine-menswear store needs to make some crucial decisions regarding his own new line of made-to-measure clothing. He has to decide how to best market a new line and make decisions regarding the target market, product, placement and promotion.Starting at €8.20
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Harry Rosen: Digitizing Customer Relationships
Vania Sakelaris; Nicole R.D. HaggertyCase IVEY-W27514-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIan Rosen, the recently appointed executive vice-president of Digital and Strategy at Harry Rosen Inc. (Harry Rosen), a successful men’s retail chain founded by Ian’s grandfather in 1954, must decide on a technology solution to support the advancement of his proposed digital strategy for Harry Rosen. The decision-making challenges he is encountering in early 2020 are compounded by the onset of the global pandemic and resulting impacts on the luxu...Starting at €8.20
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Intel Corp. - Bring Your Own Device
V. Joseph Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13E002-EInformation Technologies, StrategySince early 2009, the information technology (IT) division of a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips had noticed a growing trend among the company’s 80,000 employees worldwide to bring their own smartphones and storage devices to their individual workstations. Recognizing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was not a passing fad but a growing phenomenon, the company decided in January 2010 to formally implement this initiative. As the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Privacy Issues and Monetizing Twitter
Deborah Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shady FraihaCase IVEY-9B11E002-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIt was early 2010, and the Twitter Trio, the founders of Twitter, were faced with a changing market situation and pressures to make money. Twitter was a free service that had been operating without a viable business plan since 2006. In early 2010, Twitter was still not making enough money and it was time that Twitter showed a real return on investment. The Trio had to decide on a business model that was competitive. There was a data-mining projec...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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Canadian Tire: Business Intelligence in 2008
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B08E008-EInformation TechnologiesIn March 2008, the vice-president of governance, architecture, and corporate and diversified businesses for Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) felt confident that the Business Intelligence (BI) system that had been scheduled to be implemented in 2005 was now ready for implementation. The right people and processes were now in place. With the right people involved at different levels in the organization and several process-related initiatives, CTC's ...Starting at €8.20
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Pet Care Veterinary Services
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jason StornelliCase IVEY-9B07M042-EStrategyThe spring of 2002 had been grueling for the owner of Pet Care Veterinary Services, a small-animal veterinary practice with two clinics in Southwestern Ontario. Everything seemed to be going wrong at Pet Care's Avery, Ontario location. Profitability was disappointing, medication had disappeared, and the owner had serious concerns about her associate veterinarian's quality of animal care. The owner wondered what would be her best course of action....Starting at €8.20
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Toppits Foods Ltd.
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Robert de Vooght; Stephen Rene FreyCase IVEY-9B08A005-EMarketing, StrategyThis case explores the expansion of an imported product - garlic and herb cubes. This case can be used to explore the merits of alternative channels of distribution or it may be used more broadly to explore the development of a more effective marketing program. Students are asked to 1) assess how the competition affects Toppits' marketing plan; 2) select a customer group to target and determine how this group affects the marketing plan; 3) determ...Starting at €8.20
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Global Solutions Inc.
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Erica SpearCase IVEY-9B14C021-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyA young business school graduate has been working as a conference producer at an event planning company for four-and-a-half months. She has enjoyed the challenges of the work and has worked very hard. However, after months of positive feedback from colleagues and supervisors, she is surprised to be told that she has not passed her probation and that her probationary period of three months will be extended. She disagrees with the reasoning behind ...Starting at €8.20
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Parker & Pine
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Brian LangenCase IVEY-9B15A018-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingThe co-founders of Parker & Pine must decide how best to launch their apparel company’s first product, the boxer brief for plus-sized men. With only a few small changes to be made to the product before a full-scale launch, the partners have two important marketing decisions to make: setting the selling price for the boxer briefs and deciding how best to market them alongside the Parker & Pine brand.Starting at €8.20