Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Jamie's Market: Challenges Hiring and Onboarding Temporary Workers
Atul Teckchandani; Trey Alvarez; Huiling Chen; Nicole Chen; Andrew Davidas; Kevin Le; Edrees ShalemiCase IVEY-9B21C009-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2020, the flagship location of Jamie's Market, a specialty supermarket retailer in California, struggled to hire enough temporary workers to meet the increased staffing demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new assistant manager, who had been recently transferred to the company's flagship store, was tasked with figuring out what had gone wrong and recommending changes to ensure that the store would have enough qualified workers for ...Starting at €8.20
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Primateria AB: Scaling Up and Protecting IP
Torsten Doering; Olle WanstrandCase IVEY-W24938-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementSwedish technology start-up Primateria AB (Primateria) was founded in November of 2004 with the main idea to provide science-backed consulting services for cutting-tool producers and end-users. What had started as a consulting service without the need for assets turned quickly into a production-driven service to support the cutting tool supply chain. The company had managed to consistently grow without external capital, had automated processes, o...Starting at €8.20