Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Relying On External Knowledge For Competitive Advantage: Why It Might Not Work
Hari Bapuji; David Loree; Mary M. CrossanArticle IVEY-9B11TC05-EStrategyMany managers believe that the acquisition and application of knowledge from external sources will have a clear impact on firm performance and innovation, yet little research exists that helps managers determine the impact of that knowledge. This article seeks to examine whether the use of external knowledge delivers the competitive advantage often claimed. It explains that the outcome of using external knowledge sources may not be positive, and ...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (J)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023J-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €8.20
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Vietnam's Embrace of ICT for Economic Development: Success and Future Challenges
Vu Minh Khuong; Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-9B15E005-EInformation Technologies, StrategyVietnam has made impressive economic gains over a period of three decades, following the Doi Moi reforms of 1986. Before reform, the country’s socialist economy had been unable to displace the poverty that had plagued the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. After reform, Vietnam has experienced many years of sustained growth, as evidenced by its advances on several economic performance rankings. By 2014, Vietnam's rankings compared favou...Starting at €8.20
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Microsoft Corporation: Is Stack Ranking the Answer
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B14C031-ELeadership and People ManagementA vice-president of human resources at a technology software provider was reviewing the employee appraisal submissions for her firm. After years of rapid growth, the firm was underperforming relative to its peers and it seemed that part of the problem was its relaxed performance appraisal system. As much had been written about Microsoft Corporation’s stack ranking system, the human resources executive wondered how much she could learn about appra...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (E)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023E-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €5.74
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New York Bakery (I)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023I-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €8.20
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Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship: Business Incubation in the Danish Context - Teaching Note
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Demetra DimokopoulosTeaching Note IVEY-8B17M116-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B17M116.Starting at €0.00
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Hart Schaffner Marx: Neurodiversity at a Classic American Suit Maker - Teaching Note
Robert D. AustinTeaching Note IVEY-8B18C048-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B18C048.Starting at €0.00
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Open Banking
Robert D. Austin; Jashan PuniyaCase IVEY-9B21M060-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), one of the world’s largest banks, was confronting the advent of open banking in its retail banking business. In late 2020, policy makers and regulators were advocating movement toward open banking with growing enthusiasm as a way to stimulate competition in the financial services sector and thus, encourage greater value creation for consumers.
JPMC, however, seemed to embrace open banking while also resisting i...Starting at €8.20
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Disruptive Innovation: Developing and Adapting Business Models for an Uncertain Future (Digital Learning Experience)
Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-W35278-EInformation TechnologiesThe aim of this Course DLE is to investigate how innovation influences competition, and why it carries with it great potential for both opportunity and threat. When innovation influences competition, we often use the word disruption to describe what has happened to an established competitive landscape. As we’ll see, though, the word ‘disruption’ has become overused. Thus, a secondary purpose of this DLE is to refine common notions of disruption i...Starting at €8.20