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La Maison Simons: The Bra Backlash
Jana Seijts; Gerard Seijts; Benjamin BigioCase IVEY-9B20C008-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementLa Maison Simons was a successful 178-year-old, family-run fashion retailer with 15 locations across Canada and over CA$500 million in sales in 2018. On September 6, 2018, the president and chief executive officer (CEO), supported and approved the launch of a new marketing campaign featuring brassieres named after historic Canadian women. One of those women was the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin. Within ho...Starting at €8.20
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Research in Motion: Sincerely, a RIM Employee (B)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12C021-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Research in Motion: Sincerely, a RIM Employee (A).Starting at €5.74
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Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (B)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12M045-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (A).Starting at €5.74
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A Study in Grey: Lisa LaFlamme’s Dismissal from CTV News
Gerard Seijts; Jana Seijts; Lindsay HobbsCase IVEY-W34665-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementLisa LaFlamme was the trusted face of CTV National News. In 2022, she was at the height of her career. It was therefore a shock to her colleagues and viewers when, on August 15, 2022, she posted a video on Twitter to announce that she had been abruptly ousted from CTV by its parent company, Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media). Bell Media was hit with seemingly never-ending waves of negative press, including speculation that sexism and ageism had been th...Starting at €8.20
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Transkin Income Fund: Leading Entrepreneurial Teams
Gerard Seijts; Jana Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B09C016-ELeadership and People ManagementTranskin Income Fund provided freight transportation services in Canada and the United States. In mid February 2009, in response to a sharp fall in demand for transportation services due to the economic crisis, the chief operation officer had suggested that each of his six freight divisions and six support divisions and the corporate division should all implement a salary rollback. The chief operating officer (COO) believed that a strong message ...Starting at €8.20
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Canada's Aboriginal People: Idle No More
Gerard Seijts; Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B13C024-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementThe relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian government has been characterized by conflict and change. Although the Conservative government seemed to support Aboriginal objectives when it issued an historic apology in 2007 for the abuses suffered under the residential schools program and signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in 2008, it included changes to the Indian Act in its 2012 omnibus Bill ...Starting at €8.20
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Tracy Chan: “We Need to Talk”
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B11C017-ELeadership and People ManagementTracy Chan, managing director of the Student Learning and Writing Services (SLWS) at St. Charles University in Calgary, Alberta, was faced with a difficult situation. Her newest employee, Michael Hinske, had just e-mailed her a list of faculty members he had contacted to educate on the SLWS writing program offered to graduate students. Chan quickly noticed that the faculty names were of individuals who had already been contacted. There was no ind...Starting at €8.20
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Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (A)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12M044-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyMike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), faced a situation of truly disastrous proportions. Earlier that week, service outages had started occurring on RIM’s popular BlackBerry smartphone devices, affecting over 30 million BlackBerry users globally. For a total of three days, RIM engineers worked around the clock to fix the widespread technical problems. However, with the company providing only brief comments to the public, many consum...Starting at €8.20
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Research in Motion: Sincerely, a RIM Employee (A)
Jana Seijts; Paul BigusCase IVEY-9B12C020-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyOn June 30, 2011, Research in Motion (RIM) co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis unexpectedly found themselves facing serious public scrutiny, not from competitors, market analysts, or consumers, but from one of their own senior executives. In an attempt to have their voice heard, an anonymous senior-level RIM employee addressed an open letter to both Balsillie and Lazaridis; however, the letter was sent to the online technology news provider ...Starting at €8.20