Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Air Traffic and Navigation Services SOC Limited: Talent Management
Albert Wöcke; Hayley PearsonCase IVEY-9B20M160-EStrategyIn October 2019, the interim chief executive officer of Air Traffic and Navigation Services SOC Limited (ATNS) in South Africa faced a dilemma regarding talent management. ATNS’s talent pipeline was unbalanced, and there was insufficient progression intoStarting at €8.20
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North Dakota Trade Office: Advising a Pasta Exporter
Derek Lehmberg; Jaeha LeeCase IVEY-W25445-EStrategyIn September of 2020, an international business executive at the North Dakota Trade Office was asked by a client company, Dakota Growers Pasta Company Inc., to advise it on how to increase pasta exports to South Korea. Like many other firms in North Dakota, the client faced a number of hurdles to building successful export businesses. These included limited exposure to foreign markets and limited expertise in trade-related regulations and process...Starting at €8.20
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Boots PLC: Japan Market Entry
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B12M048-EStrategyIn 1998, Boots PLC was in the midst of planning to enter the Japanese retail drugstore market. Boots, a household name in the United Kingdom and a fixture in traditional English shopping areas known as High Street, had an impressive lineup of Boots-branded health and beauty products. Boots developed, manufactured, marketed, and sold these products through its chain of Boots The Chemists stores. Management was convinced that the markets for health...Starting at €8.20
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Sharp Corporation: Beyond Japan
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M007-EStrategyFaced with major losses from operations, Sharp Corporation’s young and unconventional president questioned the company’s long-standing operating model. Sharp was a leader in the area of liquid crystal display (LCD) technology and manufacturing. It also held strong positions in several categories of consumer electronics in the Japanese market. Although Sharp had been increasing its involvement in overseas markets, it had yet to replicate its succe...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (A)
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M093-EStrategyIn 2004, Kaneo Itoh, president of the consumer electronics firm Pioneer Corporation, was considering acquiring the plasma display operations of another Japanese firm, NEC. Pioneer had decided some years ago that plasma display panel (PDP) technology was a good strategic area in which to invest. Recently, Pioneer had been selling increasing numbers of plasma television sets using PDPs. While the company was building a new PDP production facility t...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (B)
Derek LehmbergCase IVEY-9B11M094-EStrategyThis case, a supplement to Pioneer Corporation: The NEC Plasma Opportunity (A), is set in 2009.Starting at €5.74
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General Electric: An Outlier in Developing CEO Talent
W. Glenn Rowe; Derek Lehmberg; Rod E. White; John R. PhillipsArticle IVEY-9B09TA02-EStrategyA recent Ivey study confirms the commonly held view that General Electric is an excellent breeding ground for future business leaders. This article summarizes the study and its three conclusions: Firms led by CEOs who were trained at GE will outperform firms led by CEOs who were not; GE's reputation for developing CEO talent is, in fact, well deserved and not mere hype; and GE appears to develop more CEO talent than other noted CEO talent-generat...Starting at €8.20
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Anglo American Leadership Academy: Aligning Global Leadership Development to Strategy - Teaching Note
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Hayley PearsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B21C013-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B21C013.Starting at €0.00
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Anglo American Leadership Academy: Aligning Global Leadership Development to Strategy
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Hayley PearsonCase IVEY-9B21C013-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2019, the head of leadership development for Anglo American plc (Anglo American), a global mining conglomerate, was reviewing the two years she had been working with the human resources (HR) leadership team to establish the company’s international Leadership Academy. Her task was to determine leadership development solutions that supported Anglo American’s strategy and to recommend how to resource, identify, develop, and retain the diverse tal...Starting at €8.20
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Life Esidimeni: Life Esidimeni: A Fatally Flawed Health Care DeInstitutionalization Process - Teaching Note
Hayley Pearson; Natalie van der Veen; Lulama MakhubelaTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M098-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M098.Starting at €0.00