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Sibanye: Changing Mindsets in Mining through Contextual Leadership
Caren Scheepers; Ken MathuCase IVEY-9B16C026-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2016, the executive vice-president of commercial services for Sibanye Gold, Westonaria (Sibanye), the largest gold producer in South Africa, faced a challenge. The company’s latest acquisition had been particularly difficult, with much resistance from the acquired management team. Although the executive vice-president tried to empathize with the management team who had done things a certain way for decades, he was frustrated with their lack of...Starting at €8.20
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FNB codeFest: Fostering Corporate Innovation through In-House Hackathons
Jeff Yu-Jen Chen; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19M030-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPeter Alkema, chief information officer of Business Banking at First National Bank in Johannesburg, was puzzling over ways to ensure that codeFest, the event he had inaugurated, would continue to thrive beyond 2018 without his direct involvement. His brainchild had begun in 2015 as a one-day hackathon with 100 participants. Three years later, it had grown to become a six-day coding and innovation extravaganza. Now, in May 2018, Alkema wondered wh...Starting at €8.20
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SweepSouth South Africa: Contextually Intelligent Female Leadership of Entrepreneurial Domestic Services
Tracey Toefy; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19C010-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2014, an entrepreneur in Cape Town, South Africa, started SweepSouth with her husband. Their mission was to enable dignified home cleaning work for the most vulnerable blue-collar workers, and they offered several services to empower them. When the company struggled to meet the demand for domestic services over the December holiday period, the founders realized the extent of the market’s need to connect domestic workers with potential clients....Starting at €8.20
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Una lección sobre negociación extrema: cómo negociar con secuestradores
Parmar, Ajay; Mehta, Kandarp; Stein, GuidoCase NEG-10Un rehén negocia con sus secuestradores y sale ileso de una situación en la que peligra su vida.Starting at €8.20
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Road Law (B): El socio Manuel Binio
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Barrachina, AlbertoCase NEG-19Leadership and People Management, StrategyTres socios - dos profesionales y uno estrictamente financiero - deciden crear una sociedad-despacho ?ROADLAW? enfocada en un formato boutique sectorial, con dos áreas de negocio: industria farmacéutica y reestructuraciones. Si bien al principio todo parecía augurar un buen futuro al proyecto, y se preparó un borrador de acuerdo de socios, este nunca llegó a formalizarse, y cuando surgieron los problemas entre los dos socios profesionales, la si...Starting at €5.74
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Road Law (A): El socio Santiago Jover
Stein, Guido; Mehta, Kandarp; Barrachina, AlbertoCase NEG-18Leadership and People Management, StrategyTres socios ?dos profesionales y uno estrictamente financiero? deciden crear una sociedad-despacho ?ROADLAW? enfocada en un formato boutique sectorial, con dos áreas de negocio: industria farmacéutica y reestructuraciones. Si bien al principio todo parecía augurar un buen futuro al proyecto, y se preparó un borrador de acuerdo de socios, este nunca llegó a formalizarse, y cuando surgieron los problemas entre los dos socios profesionales, la situa...Starting at €8.20
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Cory (C): La salida
Florensa, Sandra; Stein, Guido; Mehta, KandarpCase NEG-6Leadership and People ManagementTras analizar los pros y los contras de las dos ofertas que tenía sobre la mesa -la de su propia compañía y la de la empresa proveedora-, Cory decide lanzarse y aceptar la oferta externa. Los dos primeros meses, tras la baja por maternidad que respetaron completamente, no han resultado fáciles, pero percibe que por fin está creciendo profesionalmente.Starting at €5.74
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A Lesson in Extreme Negotiation: Negotiating With Kidnappers
Parmar, Ajay; Mehta, Kandarp; Stein, GuidoCase NEG-10-EThis is a negotiation where a hostage negotiates with kidnappers and gets out of a life threatening situation unscathed.Starting at €8.20
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Fashion Garb Company: Confidential Information for the Chief Strategy Officer
Soto Cantero, Ismael; Mehta, Kandarp; Barrachina, Alberto; Stein, GuidoCase NEG-22-EFashion Garb Company is a case study, divided into two parts, that focuses on the conflict between the Fashion Garb company's Digital Department and Department of Strategy in adapting the company's strategy design to a new digital perspective. The case study can be understood as a study of inter-departmental conflict negotiation within a company. Faced with the transformation of the market, which had begun to cater to more digitally-adept consume...Starting at €8.20
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GE South Africa: Londvolota’s Contextual Leadership for Creating Shared Value
Caren Scheepers; Abdullah Verachia; Ingrid TruslerCase IVEY-9B21M007-EStrategyIn January 2019, one of the founding members and current board members of Londvolota, a South African trust formed by General Electric South Africa (GESA) in 2015, faced a challenge. Londvolota needed to improve the establishment and growth of entrepreneurial South African businesses as part of GESA’s development of local suppliers, which aimed to enable the best of these businesses to supply the global GE network. The initiative represented a ma...Starting at €8.20