Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Wal-Mart: The Living Wage
Robert EamesCase IVEY-9B17M157-EStrategyBy 2017, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) had shaped purchasing power for more than a million U.S. workers. Wal-Mart’s economic muscle was so profound that one could assume that the corporation’s wage policies had had a significant impact on the struggle for a living wage in the United States—but did this assumption have any merit? Wal-Mart had set the benchmark for low-cost retail labour practices. Understanding how Wal-Mart set the agenda with ...Starting at €8.20
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Uber: Kalanick's Tumultuous Era
Robert EamesCase IVEY-9B18C006-ELeadership and People ManagementIn June 2017, transportation company Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber), which operated in 70 countries and had net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 of US$1.7 billion, fired its chief executive officer, Travis Kalanick. By the time of Kalanick's departure, negative publicity had contributed to a decline in market share, and a number of other high-level executives had left the company. What options could the company identify for the future that wo...Starting at €8.20
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Emerging Markets Development Group: Bankruptcy and Restructuring in Partnerships
John Stocker; Jennifer McCloskey; and Daniel GiesCase IVEY-W27512-EFinance, StrategyUS-registered Emerging Markets Development Group (EMDG), a small but successful international consulting firm that provided development assistance in emerging and post-conflict regions, bet big on a project in Southeast Asia in 2008 that was financed by a Small Business Administration (SBA)-guaranteed loan issued by a local bank. The project failed, with catastrophic results. After seven years of attempting to dig themselves out of the hole, the ...Starting at €8.20