Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Clean the World: Product Innovation during a Crisis
Mary Conway Dato-on, Michelle SteckerCase IVEY-W32283-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySandie Beauchamp, was the chief experience officer at the social enterprise and Certified B Corporation hybrid organization Clean the World (CTW), located in Orlando, Florida. Beauchamp finds herself in survival mode as she struggles to keep the organization from closings its doors while simultaneously keeping herself, employees, and volunteers safe during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Through a focus on CTW’s mission as well as trial and error, ...Starting at €8.20
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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