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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Strategic Leadership Development: The New Frontier for Indian Firms
Ariff KachraArticle IVEY-9B11TE05-EStrategyThe need for effective business leaders in India is as intense as it is elsewhere. But the path that Indian firms take to develop effective leaders is considerably different from the path followed by North American firms. Indian managers are fixated on profits, yet if top Indian firms are to depend on leadership development organizations, then these organizations must promote research and teaching in six key areas, including developing and retain...Starting at €8.20
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Cyberattack: The Maersk Global Supply-Chain Meltdown - Teaching Note
David T.A. Wesley; Luis Alfonso Dau; Alexandra RothTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M022-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M022.Starting at €0.00
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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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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era - Teaching Note
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19C013.Starting at €0.00
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Uncle Betty's: Toronto's Most Innovative Chef-quality Diner
Ariff Kachra; Qasim PiraniCase IVEY-9B14M050-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA couple who had moved to a new home in Toronto noticed that the area did not offer any dining options similar to the New York diners they had loved in their four years of living there. The couple, who had two young children, could not find a place nearby that was child-friendly and served chef-quality food. Rather than waiting for someone else to fill the gap in the upscale neighbourhood, the couple opened Uncle Betty’s. The restaurant was succe...Starting at €8.20
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Rogers Communications Inc.
Ariff Kachra; Kevin MelhuishCase IVEY-9B11M015-EStrategyRogers Communications’ new president and chief executive officer (CEO) contemplated the future growth opportunities of the company. The CEO was taking control of Rogers at a high point — it was a powerful player in all areas of the telecommunications sector including wireless, television, Internet telephone, and landline telephone. However, competition in the industry was also at an all-time high and innovations were abounding. The CEO knew that ...Starting at €8.20
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Starbucks (Spanish version)
Mary M. Crossan; Ariff KachraCase IVEY-9A98MS06StrategyStarbucks debe hacer frente a la cuestion de como la compania deberia aprovechar sus competencias en varias oportunidades de crecimiento, incluyendo la introduccion de sus cafes en McDonalds, la expansion de sus operaciones minoristas, y la utilizacion de la marca en otras areas de productos. El caso esta escrito de manera que los estudiantes necesiten identificar donde se encuentran las competencias mas importantes de Starbucks dentro de la cade...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