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From  Finishing the Canadian Pacific Railway (June) |
In this chapter, Dutil examines how in June 1885, the House of Commons debated the final financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway, | Patrice Dutil | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Forces at WorkFrom: Shifting the Balance |
Readings in part 2 of this text explore what it takes to be a data-driven organization that relies on facts and doesn’t make decisions based on instinct. Topics covered in this chapter … | Mark Schrutt | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! ForewordFrom: Shifting the Balance |
The introduction of this text provides an overview of the content of the book. Topics include how data-driven decision making is disrupting a variety of industries and how business leaders and … | Mark Schrutt | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  ForewordFrom: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add | |
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From  NEW! Giving with Both Hands: Why Corporate Welfare Failed CanadiansFrom: At the Trough |
In this chapter, Carbonneau traces why decades of Canadian corporate subsidy programs, from the Second World War through the 1980s, failed to resolve the country’s economic problems. | Laurent Carbonneau | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Going MobileFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt details the creation and rollout of the Inter@ctive Pager 900. Examines the leadup to Research in Motion’s first smartphone. | Chuck Howitt | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Having a Direct Connection with CustomersFrom: Shifting the Balance |
Readings in part 3 of this text explore how data-driven organizations share core values and how businesses can build connections with their data. This chapter explores how data can be used to … | Mark Schrutt | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Informed, Enhanced, and Driven DataFrom: Shifting the Balance |
Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. Topics discussed in this chapter include the role of … | Mark Schrutt | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! IntroductionFrom: The Shopify Story |
MacDonald introduces Shopify Inc., describing the company’s expansion since its formation in 2006 and the role CEO Tobias Lütke and Shopify’s executive team played in the … | Larry MacDonald | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Introduction |
This chapter outlines how the structures of capitalism and colonialism together shaped the emergence of Canada as a nation in the twentieth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 35 | 2025 | $3.50 Add |
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From  NEW! King Car: The Automobile’s GoldenFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes how the automotive industry was key in defining post-1945 Canadian economic growth and prosperity. Union successes in wage negotiations built a well-paid work … | Dimitry Anastakis | 16 | 2026 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Learning Economics the Hard Way: Recession, Depression and C.D. HoweFrom: At the Trough |
In this chapter, Carbonneau traces Canada’s economic evolution from the First World War through the post-war decades, centring on the rise of C.D. Howe as a transformative figure in … | Laurent Carbonneau | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From Licence To Be RadicalFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Examines the process Mike Lazaridis went through while choosing which university he would attend. Explains the history of the University of Waterloo, its technological facilities at the time and … | Chuck Howitt | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Lift-Off!From: The Shopify Story |
This chapter discusses how Lütke and Lake sought to fill the gap in the e-commerce market by licensing their software, leading to the creation of the Shopify platform. | Larry MacDonald | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Listing on the Stock MarketFrom: The Shopify Story |
This chapter discusses Shopify’s success following the implementation of their retail operating system. | Larry MacDonald | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Looking Forward with DataFrom: Shifting the Balance |
Readings in part 3 of this text explore how data-driven organizations share core values and how businesses can build connections with their data. This chapter explores the predictive value of … | Mark Schrutt | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
