Ivey Business School (Canada)
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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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Mkhiwa Trust: Contextualizing a Couple’s Servant Leadership - Teaching Note
Caren Scheepers; Abdullah Verachia; Natalie van der Veen; Mologadi KekanaTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C021-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20C021.Starting at €0.00
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Bonazzi Indo Joint Venture: Culture Clash or Pure Economics
Naresh Warrier; Gita BajajCase IVEY-9B13M105-EStrategyOwing to the rapidly growing automotive market, international joint venture activity in the auto-components sector has been increasing in India, both in terms of frequency and strategic importance.Bonazzi Indo Fasteners Limited, a joint venture between the Turin-based Bonazzi Group and the Mumbai-based Indo Group, was set up to manufacture automotive fasteners, primarily for global original equipment manufacturers. There is a confrontational rela...Starting at €8.20
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Anita Norris Model Management
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Prashob Menon; Paul LeeCase IVEY-9B10D013-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn March 2010, the owner of Anita Norris Model Management (ANMM) was trying to discern a strategic direction to best serve the growth of her company. Its quick growth in the past two years was due to the owners' efforts to pursue any revenue stream opportunity that presented itself. The owner was concerned that this pace was unsustainable in the long run and would in fact stretch the business too thinly. Currently, the business's revenue stemmed ...Starting at €8.20
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Lauren McDonald at Ernst & Young
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Jenna Weaver; Anne CybulskiCase IVEY-9B07D020-EService and Operations ManagementLauren McDonald, a recently promoted manager at the public accounting firm Ernst & Young in London, Ontario, has an appointment with one of her senior staff accountants. McDonald had met with the staff accountant two months earlier as part of the staff accountant's mid-year performance review. The meeting had also included an informal discussion as to whether the staff accountant was on track for a promotion to manager, which would be decided lat...Starting at €8.20
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Banking or Consulting: That is the Question
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Brad Baker; Rob LevyCase IVEY-9B08D002-EService and Operations ManagementEmily Holland-Power was eager to start looking for permanent employment. Holland-Power was entering the final year of the two-year honours bachelor of arts program in business administration at the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. From her summer work at Lalani, O'Hagan & John, an accounting firm in London, she had concluded that accounting was not for her. However, she had also decided that...Starting at €8.20
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henderson bas
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Nicole Shomair; Ari ShomairCase IVEY-9B08D008-EService and Operations ManagementThe director of client services at henderson bas, an interactive advertising company, was trying to decide how to set a price for the newly proposed campaign for Halpernia Industries, one of her clients. Though the strategic direction of the campaign had been agreed upon, Halpernia had rejected the two creative proposals already presented to it. The director was unsure how to set a price for the campaign. She needed to balance the need for the co...Starting at €8.20
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Furniture Bank
P. Fraser Johnson; John S. Haywood-Farmer; Jean A. SalamatCase IVEY-9B10D006-EService and Operations ManagementFurniture Bank was an organization that collected and distributed donated, gently used furniture to those in need. After several years of tight financial circumstances, the interim executive director was relieved that the past year had provided relief via generation of record amounts of excess cash. He was preparing a report to be presented to the board of directors concerning his thoughts on what direction he thought the Furniture Bank should ta...Starting at €8.20
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Cooke & Rodak LLP
John S. Haywood-Farmer; David LeithCase IVEY-9B10D014-EService and Operations ManagementThe managing partner of Cooke & Rodak LLP was devising a recommendation to be presented to the executive committee regarding a significant change to the firm's program for articling students. The current program had a structured rotation system, and after interviews with several current articling students it had been suggested that a move to a more entrepreneurial-based approach, thus allowing students flexibility in choosing their work, would be...Starting at €8.20
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David Stern's Decision
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Kaitlin ThanasseCase IVEY-9B14D007-EService and Operations ManagementAt 6:05 a.m., the head office at Golden Horseshoe Constructors (GHC) was understandably empty and very quiet. The vice-president (VP) of purchasing settled in at his desk to review the bids for an upcoming condominium project and to then decide which window and door installation firm he would recommend for that portion of the job. GHC's president was expecting the decision first thing that morning. Just a day earlier, the president had strongly s...Starting at €8.20