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Strongest Families
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Heidi CrammCase IVEY-9B13M133-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyStrongest Families is a 12-week distance treatment program for children with various mental health disorders and their families. The program was started in Nova Scotia in 2001 to address issues of stigma, lack of access to primary care specialists and difficulty of obtaining care, especially in rural areas. To meet these needs, the program utilizes long-distance communication methods such as weekly telephone meetings with trained personnel who ar...Starting at €8.20
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Asterand: Learning from Failure
Anne Snowdon; Hannah Standing Rasmussen; David MaslachCase IVEY-9B12D018-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementThis case chronicles the challenges of establishing an innovative tissue bank service to accelerate the research and development processes of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Asterand’s two major challenges involved achieving a standardized approach to collecting tissue samples in hospitals all over the world and achieving the highest possible quality of tissue samples shipped to their primary customer, Amgen. Despite the ide...Starting at €8.20
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Time for a Change at The Change Foundation
Anne Snowdon; Alexander SmithCase IVEY-9B14M087-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Change Foundation is an independent charitable foundation founded in 1996 by the Ontario Hospital Association with the mandate to promote, support and improve health and the delivery of health care in Ontario. In 2006, its board of directors undertook a renewal process to evaluate its strategic directions and measure the value-add of progress to date. A planning session with a variety of key stakeholders had resulted in the development of a d...Starting at €8.20
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SickKids in Qatar - Responding to a Request for Proposal
Anne Snowdon; Alexander Smith; Heidi CrammCase IVEY-9B14M025-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2005, the vice-president of International Affairs at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, must decide how to respond to a request for proposal from the Hamad Medical Corporation of Qatar. In order to reach its global mission of “Healthier Children, A Better World,” the Toronto hospital, which had an international reputation for excellence in pediatric medicine, had established an arm called SickKids International. In add...Starting at €8.20