In 2019, Corus Entertainment Inc. (Corus), a Canadian television and media company, faced significant challenges from the rise of over-the-top (OTT) streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. These services disrupted the traditional television value chain, leading to declining cable subscriptions, increased content costs, and reduced bargaining power with broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs). Content owners further complicated .....more

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By early 2020, Mindee Barham, vice-president of development at the microfinancing organization Grameen America, which focused on empowering low-income female entrepreneurs by offering them microloans to develop and grow their own businesses, had overseen the successful implementation of the first year of Grameen America’s ten-year Lifting America campaign for strategic growth. This campaign was intended to increase membership to 400,000 people; to .....more

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As 2019 ended, the founder and chief executive officer of Nudestix Inc. (Nudestix) had overseen phenomenal growth during the firm’s five years of operation. However, the company was about to encounter a series of issues as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and closures of non-essential businesses around the world. Nudestix, like many companies, suffered a severe decline in revenue. How could .....more

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On January 12, 2020, Michael McCain, the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., posted four tweets on the company's social media platform, venting his anger at the US administration over a civilian airplane shot down in Iran. Specifically, he expressed his anger at the loss of life—including that of the wife and 11-year-old son of an employee of Maple Leaf Foods—which, according to McCain, stemmed from “a needless, .....more

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