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Toronto Rehab
Peter C. Bell; Fredrik OdegaardCaso IVEY-9B09E016-EGobierno corporativoDue to continued budget shortfalls the project manager for the Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute needed to provide proposals for immediate cost-saving measures. One of these measures included how to schedule the nursing staff. The problem involved meeting certain occupancy target levels while ensuring a minimum number and correct mix of available nurses.Desde 8,20 €
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Container Transportation Company
Peter C. Bell; Bai Xiaodong; Michael ZhangCaso IVEY-9B08E005-EGobierno corporativoThe regional manager of the Container Transportation Company, and his colleagues were looking for a new strategy to allocate containers for transportation from Korea and China to the Middle East. All the business departments had been challenged by top management to optimize their revenues and profit. The regional manager wondered whether he could improve pricing or apply other revenue management techniques to enhance revenues without negatively a...Desde 8,20 €
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M2 Universal Communications
Srinivas Krishnamoorthy; Peter C. Bell; Ankur Bansal; Peter VazCaso IVEY-9B09E013-EGobierno corporativoTeleco Inc. (Teleco), an established telecom conglomerate with a significant position in the Canadian wireless business, had engaged M2 to plan its digital media spending strategy for the upcoming quarter. The vice-president at M2 would have to help Teleco decide on the ideal investment strategy for its $1.5 million digital media advertising budget and wondered how this would affect M2's strategic recommendations.Desde 8,20 €
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Lake Erie Paper
Peter C. Bell; Jing ChenCaso IVEY-9B07E002-EGobierno corporativoThe production manager at Lake Erie Paper (LEP) was considering installing a moisture meter to test the water content of the wood chips used to make corrugated paper. Use of a moisture meter would speed up the testing process and could reduce costs and/or improve paper quality, but the manager wanted to be sure that the meter provided a consistent and reliable measure of the water content of the arriving woodchips.Desde 8,20 €
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TriDev Realty Partners
Peter C. Bell; Sachin GuptaCaso IVEY-9B10E015-EGobierno corporativoThe chief executive officer (CEO) of TriDev Realty Partners, was considering an offer of $22.5 million that she had received for TriDev's Uptown Plaza shopping centre. Although she was looking to divest the property within a year, and the offer appeared attractive based on current income levels, she knew that a number of lease renewals were pending, which could increase the value of the property. Should the CEO sell now or wait until the lease re...Desde 8,20 €
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Professional Media Inc.
Peter C. BellCaso IVEY-9B13E004-EGobierno corporativoA media planner at a specialized media buying firm was in the process of planning the spring 2012 television campaign for a customer with a recognizable brand name. The campaign budget of $7 million was to be spent on seven weeks of advertising during the first 20 weeks of the year. Each week of advertising involved a carefully selected series of advertisements on network and local television, and each week of advertising cost $1 million. Which s...Desde 8,20 €
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SC Johnson: Planning Coupon Promotions
Peter C. Bell; Dave UnipanCaso IVEY-9B06E014-EGobierno corporativoAn intern at SC Johnson requested a meeting to discuss a new initiative he wanted to pursue after analyzing coupons for SC Johnson's Glade brand. The intern had identified a large variance in coupon redemption rates and coupon return metrics, and wanted to discuss the possibility of developing a better way to plan coupon promotions.Desde 8,20 €
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Northwest Newsprint, Inc. (B)
Peter C. Bell; Jing ChenCaso IVEY-9B09E003-EGobierno corporativoNorthwest Newsprint, Inc. is a major producer of newsprint and pulpmills in the Pacific Northwest and Canada from which they supplied various North American markets. In Northwest Newsprint, Inc. (A), product #9A98E035, the assistant controller's supply chain optimization approach leads to the conclusion that Northwest Newsprint, Inc. has far too much manufacturing capacity. This supplemental case addresses the ability of price changes to mitigate...Desde 5,74 €
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My School Bus
Peter C. Bell; Sherry-Anne Bedminster; Robert OnianwahCaso IVEY-9B13E016-EGobierno corporativo, Iniciativa emprendedoraA small-scale school bus company was founded five years ago to facilitate the home-to-school transportation of high school and middle school students who were enrolled in specialized programs. The company was owned by a husband-and-wife team who worked full time to arrange private bus transportation to four schools within their neighbourhood school district. The company was operating below break-even, and the owners wondered how they might increa...Desde 8,20 €
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Selecting Stocks for a Hedge Fund
Peter C. Bell; David PietruszkaCaso IVEY-9B05E022-EGobierno corporativo, Tecnologías de la informaciónThe popularity of hedge funds grew in the volatile markets surrounding the technology bubble. Hedge funds take both long and short investment positions in the market, attempting to achieve reliable gains while insulating the fund's assets from market fluctuations. The challenge facing hedge fund managers is to demonstrate that investing in a combination of long positions, short positions and cash matching the strategy of the fund can, at an agree...Desde 8,20 €