Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Sarah James in Mexico: Often Wrong but Never in Doubt
William A. AndrewsCase IVEY-9B09C006-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyA college student, Sarah James, attends a Mexican university (INI) for the summer to develop her language and cross-cultural capabilities. At the end of a successful semester, she e-mails the director of international recruitment for the Mexican UniversitStarting at €8.20
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A.T. Kearney Inc.: The Push to become a Management Consulting Titan
Florian Wiesner; Jonathan Chen; Christopher WilliamsCase IVEY-9B20M180-EStrategyIn the first quarter of 2019, A.T. Kearney Inc.’s managing partner had to find a strategy that would help the company move into the top tier of the world’s management consultancy firms. The new leader was only the ninth managing partner in the firm’s histStarting at €8.20
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Synergy Pharmaceuticals Scales Up: License or Go It Alone
William A. AndrewsCase IVEY-9B19M026-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAfter more than a decade of development, US-based Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Synergy) received marketing approval from the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for its first drug, Trulance, which targeted a large market that had only two other approved competitors. Synergy now needed to scale up from a research-and-development shop to a sales-and-marketing powerhouse. The company had not partnered with a larger pharmaceutical company during th...Starting at €8.20
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Residential Child-Services Facility (A): A CEO’S Effort to Preserve Morale
William A. AndrewsCase IVEY-9B18C026-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2013, the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the Christian Children’s Home of Florida (CCHF), a well-established, faith-based residential care facility for neglected and abused children, was in the process of seeking a deep understanding of the issues affecting company morale. The CEO had just received the field notes of an extensive qualitative research study of CCHF completed by a Master of Business Administration consulting team from a lo...Starting at €8.20