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List of Cases Winter 2018 Term I

CASE 1

Direct Energy: Evolving a New Role for IT

Author: Cyrus F. Gibson
http://cisr.mit.edu/file-download/mit_cisrwp370_directenergy.pdf (registration
required) or
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1020985

CASE 2

Cathay Pacific
Authors: F. Warren McFarlan , Fred Young , Lo Waishun
Harvard Business Case Number: 307009
[You can purchase this Harvard case through Ivey Publishing at
www.iveycases.com and search for 307009]

CASE 3

AtekPC Project Management Office

Authors: F.W. McFarlan; J. Hupp; and M. Kell
Harvard Business Case Number: 308049
[You can purchase this Harvard case through Ivey Publishing at
www.iveycases.com and search for 308049]

CASE 4

GlobalMed: Telemedicine for the Rio Olympics

Authors: Karen A. Brown; Nancy Lea Hyer; and Nathan T. Washburn
Ivey Case Number: A16140001
[Please purchase a digital copy of the case at
https://www.iveycases.com/ProductView.aspx?id=69027 ]
Case Submission Template

1. Identify the problem (not the symptoms of the problem).

2. Pull in (relate) everything you learned from the “theory”. Sure even stuff
you learned from Marketing, HR, Logistics, etc. Apply it to where it is
demonstrated in the case.
3. How do you propose to solve it? I want the step-by-step prescriptive
instructions and where possible the time line and associated costs. Don’t
have a number? Get one.
4. For everything you say that is “wrong”/not working, or could be done better,
or could be done differently what actions should I (the management
team/client mentioned in the case) take?

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^ Drummond, H. (1999). Are we any closer to the end? Escalation and the case of Taurus, International Journal of
Project Management, Vol. 17, No. 1, p. 11-16.
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