Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (B)
Shaw, K; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-HR44B-EThis is the follow up case to “Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (A).” This (B) case presents the results of the company’s two major people analytics projects, which are described in the (A) case. The first project used data to identify empirically the traits of great managers and subsequently identify who might or might not be a great manager. This enabled RBC to help those managers who could...Starting at €5.74
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Nuria Chinchilla: el poder de cambiar la empresa
Apfeffer, Jeffrey; Anderson, Megan ElisabethCase SGSB-OB67ESStrategyEn 1993, Nuria Chinchilla había completado recientemente su tesis doctoral en IESE Business School en Barcelona, sobre el tema de la rotación organizacional, sin un enfoque particular en las mujeres, los arreglos laborales flexibles o los problemas laborales. Ella eligió permanecer en el IESE, donde había trabajado desde principios de la década de 1980 como profesora asistente. Para el año 2003, poco más de una década después, había alcanzado e...Starting at €8.20
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The Rise of JTBC
Barnett, William P.; Rhee, Mooweon; Shin, DongyoubCase SGSB-SM317-EStrategyJTBC, which began operations in 2011, provided press coverage, drama shows, and entertainment programs. Within a relatively brief period, the company had gained the position of Korea’s most trusted press outlet, and played a pivotal role in reporting key information related to the controversial case of President Park Geun-hye and her advisor - information that ultimately led to the president’s impeachment in March 2017. The case study details the...Starting at €8.20
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POSCO: Corporate Citizenship
Rhee, Mooweon; Kim, Jae-Gu; Barnett, William P.Case SGSB-SM352-EStrategySouth Korean steelmaking giant POSCO in 2021 had become a global company with businesses in 52 countries. In 2018, POSCO’s new chairman and CEO had inaugurated a broader business philosophy, espousing “Corporate Citizenship” practices as a way for the company to give back to society, beyond the production of steel or creation of jobs. This philosophy included new principles, innovative R&D, action plans, and internal and external cooperation to ...Starting at €8.20
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BuildDirect: Constructing a Culture that can Weather the Storms
Sutton, R; Rao, H; Hinds, RCase SGSB-E526-EEntrepreneurshipAfter a delayed shipment of flooring materials impeded Jeff Booth’s ability to complete a construction project on schedule, he, along with cofounder Robert Banks, was determined to solve the inefficiency of the heavyweight building supply industry. They founded BuildDirect, an e-commerce company based on a sophisticated technology platform that optimized the shipment of home improvement products. Since its founding in 1999, BuildDirect faced se...Starting at €8.20
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SK's Double Bottom Line: Challenges and Way Forward
Jang, Yong Suk; Rhee, Mooweon; Chey, Tae-won; Barnett, WilliamCase SGSB-SM324-EStrategySK Group, one of Korea’s largest conglomerates, announced its Double Bottom Line (DBL) initiative in 2018. In January 2019, Chairman Tae-won Chey unveiled the company’s pledge not only to monitor and report SK’s social value, but also see social value account for 50 percent of the company’s key performance indicators. This case study follows SK’s shift to DBL management and efforts to place social value at the core of its business model. Social...Starting at €8.20
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Royal Bank of Canada: Using People Strategy and Analytics to Drive Employee Performance (A)
Shaw, K; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-HR44A-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case discusses how the leaders of the Royal Bank of Canada infused the 80,000-employee company with a new emphasis on People Analytics. This supported the bank’s business strategies for its wide range of business units. The bank’s new People Analytics group, led at the top by the vice president of human resources, collected and analyzed huge volumes of data about the bank’s employees, customers, and business unit performance to help the com...Starting at €8.20
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SK Planet in 2013: A Korean Giant's Big Bet on the U.S. Market
Burgelman, R; Chung, S, C; Nathanson, J; Lee, Won-yohCase SGSB-SM222-EStrategyThe case details the strategic decisions that SK Planet, a leader in web and mobile services in its home country of Korea, needed to make regarding the best way to carry out an aggressive global expansion—most importantly into the United States. The $1 billion company had a war chest of $600 million in cash, which allowed company leadership to consider three strategic options for evaluation: 1) Port or rebrand SK Planet’s top-ranked Korean servic...Starting at €8.20