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Sibanye: Changing Mindsets in Mining through Contextual Leadership
Caren Scheepers; Ken MathuCase IVEY-9B16C026-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2016, the executive vice-president of commercial services for Sibanye Gold, Westonaria (Sibanye), the largest gold producer in South Africa, faced a challenge. The company’s latest acquisition had been particularly difficult, with much resistance from the acquired management team. Although the executive vice-president tried to empathize with the management team who had done things a certain way for decades, he was frustrated with their lack of...Starting at €8.20
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FNB codeFest: Fostering Corporate Innovation through In-House Hackathons
Jeff Yu-Jen Chen; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19M030-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPeter Alkema, chief information officer of Business Banking at First National Bank in Johannesburg, was puzzling over ways to ensure that codeFest, the event he had inaugurated, would continue to thrive beyond 2018 without his direct involvement. His brainchild had begun in 2015 as a one-day hackathon with 100 participants. Three years later, it had grown to become a six-day coding and innovation extravaganza. Now, in May 2018, Alkema wondered wh...Starting at €8.20
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SweepSouth South Africa: Contextually Intelligent Female Leadership of Entrepreneurial Domestic Services
Tracey Toefy; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19C010-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2014, an entrepreneur in Cape Town, South Africa, started SweepSouth with her husband. Their mission was to enable dignified home cleaning work for the most vulnerable blue-collar workers, and they offered several services to empower them. When the company struggled to meet the demand for domestic services over the December holiday period, the founders realized the extent of the market’s need to connect domestic workers with potential clients....Starting at €8.20
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La fusión de Banca Popolare (C): A toro pasado
Stein, Guido; Cuadrado, MartaCase DPO-314Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementLa integración técnica sobre el papel, gestionada por Massimo y supervisada por el Comité, había sido calificada de "impecable"; sin embargo, la recolocación real de la plantilla que no había salido del Banco sacó a la luz aspectos "menos bonitos". A mediados de octubre se crearon unos subcomités operativos de fusión en cada unidad, siguiendo el modelo organizativo de Banca del Norte, formados por miembros de ambas entidades cuya misión consistía...Starting at €5.74
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La fusión de Banca Popolare (A)
Stein, Guido; Cuadrado, Marta; Cano, EnriqueCase DPO-312Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governancesesión extraordinaria que se desarrollaría durante tres jornadas en el oeste del país. Aunque llevaban varios meses escuchando comentarios acerca de la posible fusión, de ser finalmente cierta, nadie pensaba que se produciría tan pronto, y menos aún antes del cierre del año fiscal. Las cifras bailaban y las advertencias sobre despidos y cierres de oficinas eran la comidilla entre los empleados. A media mañana, Massimo leyó detenidamente la nota...Starting at €8.20
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Volkswagen Navarra, 8th Collective Agreement (C): Latest negotiations
Stein, Guido; Escobar, Carlos; Cuadrado, Marta; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase DPO-328-EEconomics, Leadership and People ManagementAfter more than eight months without the negotiating parties managing to reach an agreement, the unions decided to call in their German counterpart to help find a solution and make the parent company aware of why it had not been possible to reach an agreement in Spain. On the other hand, in response to the drawn out nature of the negotiating period, the management from Wolfsburg contacted Patrick and Carlos to find out what was causing the lack o...Starting at €5.74
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Volkswagen Navarra, 8th Collective Agreement (A): An agreement for the future
Stein, Guido; Escobar, Carlos; Cuadrado, Marta; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase DPO-326-EEconomics, Leadership and People ManagementIn September 2012, Carlos Escobar, director of human resources for the Volkswagen plant in Navarra (hereafter, VW Navarra), was sitting in his office reading the mail that his secretary left him on his desk each morning. That day, the first letter in the pile was from Germany, signed by Herbert Waltl, the production manager for all the European Volkswagen (VW) plants. After reading the letter, Carlos called Patrick Danau, general manager of VW Es...Starting at €8.20
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MCO Insurance
Rábago, Eduardo; Stein, Guido; Cuadrado, MartaCase DPO-298Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl caso MCO Insurance tiene por objetivo analizar la técnica de la evaluación 360° desde un punto de vista doble: el individual y el organizativo. Para el primer objetivo ofrece las evaluaciones de diferentes directivos de la empresa y su reacción ante ellas. Para el segundo, en el caso se incluye un resumen agregado de las competencias estudiadas y su valoración. A finales de 2012 se recibieron de la matriz instrucciones para realizar un nuevo e...Starting at €8.20
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GE South Africa: Londvolota’s Contextual Leadership for Creating Shared Value
Caren Scheepers; Abdullah Verachia; Ingrid TruslerCase IVEY-9B21M007-EStrategyIn January 2019, one of the founding members and current board members of Londvolota, a South African trust formed by General Electric South Africa (GESA) in 2015, faced a challenge. Londvolota needed to improve the establishment and growth of entrepreneurial South African businesses as part of GESA’s development of local suppliers, which aimed to enable the best of these businesses to supply the global GE network. The initiative represented a ma...Starting at €8.20
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Sasol Fuel Retail Franchise: Contextualizing Entrepreneurship’s Role in Women Empowerment
Caren Scheepers; Motshedisi MathibeCase IVEY-9B21M070-EStrategyIn 2018, the owner of a Sasol Limited (Sasol) fuel retail franchise in Pretoria, South Africa, was facing the challenge of how to continue growing her business by retaining her existing customers and offering the products and services they expected. A woman entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry, the franchisee had worked her way up the corporate ladder in the financial services industry and, after being retrenched from her position at a bank,...Starting at €8.20