Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-9B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementThe senior vice-president for sustainable investing at the U.S.-based Pax World Funds, a leader in socially responsible investing, needed to identify and invest in companies for the company's Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, an investment fund that promoted labour rights through gender equality. The fund had more than US$200 million in assets under management, a 25 per cent one-year rate of return, and a three-year annual rate of retu...Starting at €8.20
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Paytm: Targeting More Pockets for Its Mobile Wallet
Sandeep Puri; Shivani Upadhyay; Siddharth Agarwal; Debasish ChatterjeeCase IVEY-9B16M026-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPaytm enjoyed a position as the leader in India’s market for mobile wallets, a digital service that enabled payments to be made through mobile devices. Paytm’s major client, Uber, which developed and operated a smartphone-based, ride-hailing app as a way to compete with traditional taxi companies, had initially used Paytm’s mobile wallet as the sole payment mode for Uber rides in India. However, in 2015 Uber revised its payment policy by adding a...Starting at €8.20
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Johnson Controls-Hitachi: Aiming to Consolidate a Market Lead
Sandeep Puri; Shivani Upadhyay; Shubham SharmaCase IVEY-9B17M082-EMarketing, StrategyAt the beginning of 2017, India was among the top 10 markets for Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Limited, accounting for around 10 per cent of its revenue. The company was trying to increase its room air conditioner (RAC) market from 11 per cent to 20 per cent by 2020. It was positioned in the premium segment of the RAC market but wanted to enter the popular segment, which was crowded with established players. The company’s focus ...Starting at €8.20
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Religion in the Workplace: Tyson Foods, Inc.
Alexandra Roth; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B11C032-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case discusses an American food processor that embraced faith in the workplace, which helped to increase employee satisfaction and reduce turnover. Recently, Tyson Foods had sought to broaden its religious accommodation to reflect the changing demographics of its employees. At the time of the case, Christian fundamentalism was the predominant religion of Tyson and many employees and community members reacted negatively to the company’s effort...Starting at €8.20
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Cyberattack: The Maersk Global Supply-Chain Meltdown
David T.A. Wesley; Luis Alfonso Dau; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-9B19M022-EStrategyIn 2017, the new chairman of A. P. Møller-Maersk confronted one of the worst cyberattacks in history, which crippled the company's vast global shipping network that accounted for nearly 20 per cent of global container shipping. NotPetya was a particularly virulent strain of ransomware that, within seconds, destroyed Maersks’s servers and personal computers around the world. Maersk's senior system administrators had warned the company that its net...Starting at €8.20
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Religion in the Workplace: The British Airways Cross Controversy
Alexandra Roth; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B11C031-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyBritish Airways took a strictly secular approach to religion in the workplace, banning any outward symbols of faith. This policy extended to the wearing of jewellery with religious symbolism. One employee who originally complied with the ban protested after she found out that the company had made accommodations to other faiths, such as allowing Sikhs to wear turbans. She then decided to wear a cross pendant in protest of the company’s perceived d...Starting at €8.20
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Johnson Controls-Hitachi: Moving Out of the Core Product Range
Sandeep Puri; Shubham Sharma; Shivani UpadhyayCase IVEY-9B17A029-EMarketing, StrategyWith the quarter ending December 2016 closing on a sour note after a loss of ?79.7 million, Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Limited found itself reassessing its business expansion strategies. The company’s stand-alone net profit in fiscal year 2015–16 was down 35.73 per cent from the previous fiscal year. Its launch of a new range of imported air purifiers in 2015 as part of its expansion plan may have hit an obstacle with the dip...Starting at €8.20
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Launch of Durra: Women in Islamic Banking
Alexandra Roth; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B10M035-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Euro-Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues Award, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. The case focuses on the vice-president and regional head of corporate banking for Noor Islamic Bank in Dubai as she arrives in the United States to promote the first global network for women in Islamic banking and finance, known as Durra. As a result, Islamic banks have been growing at...Starting at €8.20
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The Credit Suisse Christian Values Fund
Alexandra Roth; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B09M021-EStrategyA Swiss Catholic investor is faced with a decision on how to invest her savings in a socially responsible way. She learns of a new fund offered by Credit Suisse that purports to invest according to Christian values and principles. After researching the fund on the Internet, she becomes aware of the current state of ethical funds, their principles and their critics. Some organizations criticize socially responsible investing (SRI) as nothing more ...Starting at €8.20
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Wirecard (A): The Rise of German Fintech
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-W26095-EFinanceAfter Wirecard AG (Wirecard) collapsed in 2020, the financial technology (fintech) company, revealed as an elaborate fraud, came to be known as Germany’s Enron as investigators confirmed many of the concerns that had been raised by whistle-blowers and jouStarting at €8.20