Warren Buffett had long been a beacon of inspiration for investors worldwide. Known for his long-term investment approach, Buffett delivered an average annual return of 20 per cent since taking the helm of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire Hathaway) in 1965. Now, at 95, Buffett was preparing to step back and pass the reins to incoming chief executive officer (CEO) Greg Abel. Since Buffett announced his retirement, Berkshire Hathaway stock lagged .....more

Cascadia Seaweed Corp. (Cascadia) was a vertically integrated regenerative aquaculture company based in British Columbia. Cascadia cultivated kelp on First Nation–owned ocean tenures and processed it into seaweed-based biostimulants and animal feed additives for the agricultural sector. In July 2025, cofounder and chief executive officer Michael Williamson faced a pivotal scaling decision. Following a CA$4 million Series A financing, the company was .....more

In February 2026, Andrew Money, vice-president of flight operations and chief pilot at Chartright Air Group (Chartright), faced a strategic question about how to sustain and scale of the people-first culture that had become the company’s most significant competitive advantage. Chartright was founded in 1987 and had been led since 2003 by Adam Keller, its president. Keller had transformed a struggling 5-aircraft operator into Canada’s largest private .....more

The term Sephora kids referred to young children who showed significant interest in beauty products, such as skin care and makeup. The ethics of targeting young children was debatable. At the same time, kids' interest in beauty products was expected to remain strong. Also, only one-third of Sephora kids were spending their money at Sephora (the beauty retailer owned by Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH)). In Canada, Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (Shoppers .....more

In January 2026, the founder of Worrad Financial Services in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was helping her client prepare for retirement. The client was recently widowed after the death of her spouse several months earlier. She was 58 years old and needed help with wealth management and retirement planning. She had three specific concerns: an outstanding investment loan, uncontrolled spending in some areas, and a retirement plan that she hoped to start .....more

Rachel Drew was the founder and CEO of Cadence, a technology startup that aimed to transform the chaos of estate administration into a grief-informed, compassionate process. Cadence had grown from Drew’s personal experience managing her mother’s estate. She had faced an overwhelming administrative burden and identified how a fragmented, non-user-friendly system for estate settlement forced grieving family members into essentially taking on a “part-time .....more

Firms in both the manufacturing and service industries depend on inventory being available when needed to support operations. While it might be tempting to order a large volume of inventory to minimize the risk of running out, this is seldom an efficient solution. Fortunately, many analytical models exist to facilitate the most important question in inventory management: determining how much to order. The choice of which analytical model to use is .....more

In July 2025, Julie Richard, a public health nurse and the newly appointed manager at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH), was tasked with her first major assignment: launching a new series of vaccination clinics ahead of the upcoming flu season. Hospitals across Ontario were facing higher demand for care, leading to longer wait times and increasing strain on existing services. Strengthening preventive care had become essential to managing .....more

The owners of BTRMLK Inc. (BTRMLK) were reviewing the company’s performance in fiscal 2024. They had just returned from a meeting with a landlord in the up-and-coming West 5 neighbourhood in London, Ontario, where they had discussed a potential future second location for the restaurant. BTRMLK was a popular fast-food restaurant in London that specialized in large, aesthetic, fried-chicken sandwiches. Although customers were happy and eager to endure .....more

In April 2025, Linda Hasenfratz, executive chair of Linamar Corporation, needed to evaluate the strategic response scenarios available to the company in light of new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and the resultant disruptions in the company’s North American business. <br><br>Linamar had grown from a one-person machine shop in 1966 to a global company with 75 manufacturing locations worldwide, employing more than 33,000 people. .....more