Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Gowlings LLP: Canadian Legal Services Firm Going International
Brian C. Pinkham; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16M190-EStrategyIn February 2014, the chairman and chief executive officer of the third-largest law firm in Canada, Gowlings LLP, was examining his options for taking the firm global. On the verge of retirement, he hoped to establish an enduring platform for international expansion based on three aspects: a new global location, a new global partner, and a new organizational structure. Each point was interlinked, and each presented its own managerial dilemmas. Go...Starting at €8.20
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Spitzberg Elevators Corporation: Responding to Antitrust Legislation
Brian C. Pinkham; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17M172-EStrategyIn April 2015, a legal associate at Spitzberg Elevators Corporation, a U.S. corporation operating in Hong Kong, was tasked with recommending how the company should respond to Hong Kong’s new anti-competition legislation, which was scheduled to be enacted within eight months. The legal associate first needed to review the legislation, specifically the key portions that could have an impact on her company's imminent plans to bid on several elevator...Starting at €8.20
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Post-Truth or Social Justice: Serge Belamant and Cash Paymaster Services in South Africa - Teaching Note
Albert Wöcke; Morris MthombeniTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M086-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M086.Starting at €0.00
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McKinsey & Company: Facilitating Bribery in South Africa - Teaching Note
Morris Mthombeni; Albert Wöcke; Alvaro Cuervo-CazurraTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M145-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M145.Starting at €0.00
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Telkom South Africa: Business Model Innovation in a Changing Industry - Teaching Note
Albert Wöcke; Morris MthombeniTeaching Note IVEY-W25730-EInformation Technologies, StrategyTeaching note for product W25729.Starting at €0.00
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Doing Business in Sierra Leone: Graeme Hossie at London Mining (A)
Brian C. Pinkham; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16M228-EStrategyIn 2008, Graeme Hossie, co-founder and chief executive officer of London Mining, an iron-ore mining firm, was preparing to assist the London Mining team in its negotiations for a project in Sierra Leone. Hossie was to meet with representatives from the government of Sierra Leone, a local city mayor, and landowners to acquire a property that included an old iron-ore mine. The mine was a potentially high-grade iron-ore mine that would be lucrative ...Starting at €8.20
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Born Global: Timeless Herbal Care Prepares to Supply Medical Marijuana to Canadians
Brian C. Pinkham; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16M212-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2012, a former crown attorney for Canada’s Department of Justice started Timeless Herbal Care, a company that was intended to capitalize on Jamaica’s deregulation of marijuana for medical purposes. The entrepreneur and his family relied on their ties to Jamaica and his legal expertise to create a legislative framework for Jamaica’s medical marijuana industry to meet international standards. Concurrently, Canada was readying legislation to allo...Starting at €8.20
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Post-Truth or Social Justice: Serge Belamant and Cash Paymaster Services in South Africa
Albert Wöcke; Morris MthombeniCase IVEY-9B20M086-EStrategySerge Belamant was the founder and chief executive officer of Net1 UEPS Technologies (Net1), a US$600-million company that had a contract with the South Africa government to pay social grants to the poor. The contract was controversial from the start and was under scrutiny through multiple legal challenges and three different investigations, including by the US Securities Exchange Commission and the US Department of Justice. When Belamant discove...Starting at €8.20
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McKinsey & Company: Facilitating Bribery in South Africa
Morris Mthombeni; Albert Wöcke; Alvaro Cuervo-CazurraCase IVEY-9B20M145-EStrategyThe head of the South African subsidiary of the US consulting firm McKinsey & Company (McKinsey), has to address the implications of the firm’s involvement in a corruption scandal. The South African office was implicated in a scandal involving its local pStarting at €8.20
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Old Mutual: Defining Moments for Board Leadership - Teaching Note
Morris Mthombeni; Gideon Pogrund; Amy Moore; Verity HawardenTeaching Note IVEY-W24879-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyTeaching note for product W24878.Starting at €0.00