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Willem Ellis is a Lecturer at the University of The Free State in Bloemfontein South Africa and a volunteer board member of a regionally located women’s shelter. Recently the shelter experienced the passing of its founder. As with many non-profits, the organization has struggled to maintain adequate funding and is sometimes challenged by operational issues as it seeks to provide helpful services to its vulnerable clients. As part of its governance activities, the board discovered the legal governance form of the organization is not what it understood it to be. This has created a problem for the board as it is aware that change is now needed. Visit casenet.ca from Acadia University for more decision focused video business case studies and to learn how you can use our cases in your classroom.

Andrew Steeves is co-founder of Gaspereau Press located in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. They are a book publisher. Recently they needed to overcome a challenge resulting from a good news story. One of the books that his company published won an important and very high profile national award which has a reputation for amazing through the roof sales. They were faced with the decision of how to meet demand beyond their normal capacity.

Andrew Pyne, Gemcom's former managing director for Australia and Asia. In this case his team needs to figure out what to do with a long time loyal overseas client that has lost an important group of employees who provided the bulk of services to Gemcom and who have now spun off their own company. Visit casenet.ca for more free, open access decision focused video teaching cases from Acadia University.