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Lara Castro (B)
García, Pilar; Cardona Soriano, PabloCase DPO-23Leadership and People ManagementLara Castro, joven directiva de una empresa de telecomunicaciones, comienza un proceso de «coaching» con el fin de mejorar sus competencias directivas. El caso muestra el plan de mejora diseñado conjuntamente por Lara y su «coach», y los avatares que rodean su puesta en marcha.Starting at €5.74
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Cofil, S.A. (C)
Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Chinchilla, NuriaCase FH-640Leadership and People ManagementEl Director General de Cofil, S.A. se ve desbordado por sus actividades directivas y contrata a un consultor externo para ayudarle a aliviar su carga de trabajo.Starting at €5.74
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Buena Visión España (A)
Cardona Soriano, PabloCase FH-686-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines the process of organizational and cultural change undertaken at Buena Visión, a subsidiary of the Alda Gehring Corporation, which manufactured and sold optical healthcare products. The aim of the reforms, which fell within a program undertaken by Alda Gehring called Vision 2000, was to optimize business processes and reduce response times to changes in the environment by decentralizing management and promoting a style of manage...Starting at €8.20
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Inyecsa
Cardona Soriano, PabloCase FH-635-ELeadership and People ManagementA new factory manager is required to substantially and rapidly improve productivity and quality. To improve one of the sections that has been most reluctant to accept any changes, he promotes a shopfloor worker to the rank of team leader. The new team leader enforces the plant manager's guidlines very strictly. Following a confrontation between the team leader and a subordinate, the workers write a letter to the works committee demanding that the...Starting at €8.20
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AltaGas Ltd.: Forrest Kerr Hydroelectric Project
Gerard Seijts; Karen MacMillanCase IVEY-9B16C014-ELeadership and People ManagementAltaGas Ltd. (AltaGas), an energy company based in Calgary, Alberta, successfully collaborated with the Canadian federal government, British Columbia’s provincial government, and a First Nations group to reach an agreement for constructing a large, green energy, hydroelectric project in a remote location in northern British Columbia. Although most observers considered the agreement to be a resounding success, the founder and chief executive offic...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Class Contribution: Annie’s Low Score
Karen MacMillan; Abby XiongCase IVEY-9B18C034-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyA business student received a low rating on class contribution from her leadership professor. She struggled to understand how this low rating happened, as she thought she had contributed in every class. She then lost the motivation to participate in class discussions, but considered developing a plan of action to address the problem. What strategies would help her to increase her contributions in class and improve her grades?Starting at €8.20
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Ivey Publishing: Making a Case for Paying the Price
Brent Beal; Karen MacMillanCase IVEY-9B17M138-EStrategyIn 2017, Ivey Publishing, a publisher and distributor of cases for the academic market, struggled with widespread copyright infringement, which affected its revenue stream. The digital revolution, which had an impact on so many other creative industries, including music, film, and computer software, had also affected the publisher.Ivey Publishing’s sales team leader made a call to a business professor to elicit his support in encouraging his stud...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Up (B): Jada
Karen MacMillanCase IVEY-9B15C025-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to A case, see 9B15C024.Starting at €5.74
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A Zero Wage Increase Again
Karen MacMillanCase IVEY-9B11C034-EStrategyThe owner of a large hardware, furniture, and building centre faced a dilemma regarding how to manage the upcoming wage review process. After two consecutive years of frozen wages, employees were impatient for financial progress, but there was no extra money in the budget. It was possible to pump savings from upcoming process improvement initiatives into wage increases. However, the owner had limited motivation to channel hard-won funds to underp...Starting at €8.20
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Somebody Stop the Radio Star: Jian Ghomeshi at the CBC
Karen MacMillan; Meredith WoodwarkCase IVEY-9B16C008-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2012, the executive producer of the hit radio show Q and the director of Network Radio at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) faced employees’ complaints against the show’s star host, Jian Ghomeshi. The employees alleged that Ghomeshi’s treatment of employees was problematic and contrary to the corporation’s values and policies. A few years earlier, a female employee had also alleged mistreatment by Ghomeshi but no disciplinary action ...Starting at €8.20