Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Somany Ceramics: Recruitment Challenges
Amitabh Deo Kodwani; Mukesh Kumar; Sanjeev PrasharCase IVEY-9B18C025-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2016, Somany Ceramics Limited (SCL), a ceramic tile manufacturing company in India, needed industry-ready workers to meet the company’s expansion plan; however, the whole ceramics industry was affected by a shortage of labour. Most of the technically competent ceramics and construction personnel in India preferred to work in the construction industry or join other sectors such as information technology. The company’s human resources team neede...Starting at €8.20
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When the Tone of an Email Went Wrong
Mukesh Kumar; Archana Parashar; Sanjeev PrasharCase IVEY-9B16C013-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyA tense situation arose in 2015 after a faculty member at the Premier School of Management in New Delhi, India, mistakenly emailed a test paper to a group email address that included the school’s students, faculty, and alumni. An alumna who received the email responded to the professor using the “reply to all” option. The tone of her email was considered to be disrespectful to the professor. The professor responded by sending his own “reply to al...Starting at €8.20
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Raintree Resorts International: Envisioning Unique Adventures
Gary Carini; Douglas Y. BechCase IVEY-9B17M183-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn early 2017, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Raintree Resorts International, Inc. was contemplating the next moves for the timeshare company he had founded in 1997. He and his team had focused their attention on creating and developing properties in the world’s top destinations. The CEO felt privileged to have built the best vacation destinations for people, but the company was at a turning point. He was intrigued by disrupters in the broa...Starting at €8.20
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Deloitte and KPMG: The War for Talent
Sanjeev Prashar; Amitabh Deo Kodwani; Mukesh KumarCase IVEY-9B17C023-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2016, India witnessed an intense war for talent acquisition in consulting when Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (Deloitte) poached 20 partners and their teams—around 300 people in total—from KPMG India (KPMG). Deloitte offered a higher compensation to attract KPMG executives and lured partners with a salary jump in proportion to the number of team members they could bring from KPMG. The rivalry between the firms was fuelled by their desire t...Starting at €8.20