The president of a waste management and recycling company is considering expanding to another location within London, Ontario. Students are asked to assess the company's past performance to determine what had made it successful and then project financial results for the expansion along with projecting the company's fiscal year's overall financial results. Students are required to establish a strong promotion plan for the new facility, .....more

The case discusses the development of Pakistan's economy and the government's decision to privatize many of its government-owned enterprises and focuses on the privatization debate concerning Pakistan's power sector. Illustrated are the many issues and questions concerning government ownership and privatization, the rationales for government ownership as well as justifications for privatization.

Cascadia Water Corporation processes wastewater and converts it into cleaned "reclaimed" water that is sold to customers for use in irrigation, car washing, and specific industrial purposes. With more communities becoming concerned with the demand of fresh clean water and the strains this demand puts on the quality of their water, Cascadia would be a serious option. The founder of the company must develop a creative business model that would .....more

Clean Harbors Inc. is a successful environmental services company. The introduction of environmental legislation in the late 1970s brought with it annual growth in the environmental remediation industry that approached 20 per cent as industrial companies attempted to comply with the new regulations. During the latter half of the 1980s, the company experienced growth of 100 per cent per year. In the 1990s, however, waste reduction and recycling left .....more

The associate credit manager of a Hong Kong bank is considering the final terms of a loan package to finance a new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vaporizing station for the bank's customer, Guangzhou Guowei. During the past year, the credit manager and her colleagues have been able to assess the company's existing activities and prospects, and the outlook for the new LPG station seems promising. Three key questions will have to be addressed .....more

The objective of this case is to illustrate the complexity of a large information technology project. The case begins when the Provincial Power Corporation and PricewaterhouseCoopers agree to do a SAP implementation project. The benefits of the system to the Provincial Power Corporation are discussed, as well as the strengths, weaknesses and history of SAP IS-U/CCS (SAP Industry Specific-Utilities/Customer Care & Service). The key success factors .....more

The project manager of an SAP Industry Specific Utilities/Customer Care and Service (IS-U/CSS) project must help his client, a utilities company, decide on the future of the project. The major project issues included time pressures, budget constraints, management issues, technical problems and staff motivation concerns. The project was at a point of no return, and he had to recommend whether the project continue on schedule, be delayed or be canc .....more

Unicorp Canada Corporation owned 13.8% of Union Enterprises and was poised to buy another 16.3%. Union Enterprises must formulate a strategy for a hostile takeover. A central issue is how to finance the deal. One of the strengths of the case is the ability to illustrate a wide range of offensive and defensive strategies. (A related case is available, titled Unicorp Canada Corporation, case 9A90B035.)

The quality co-ordinator of Ontario Hydro's Western Region was reviewing the company's Service Quality Improvement initiative and contemplating its future. Although the program had achieved some tangible results, some issues had also arisen. The corporation's financial position clouded the situation. Students have to analyse the SQI's progress to date and determine what the quality coordinator should do to improve performance.

The vice-president and chief financial officer of Unicorp Canada Corporation, had to decide on the price, form and conditions of an offer for shares of Union Enterprises Ltd. (UEL) based on Unicorp's objectives for the investment, its financial resources, the underlying value of UEL, and his assessment of the probabilities of the possible outcomes of the takeover bid. He then needed to develop a strategy for the presentation of the bid to UEL .....more