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CASE LEARNING: Selling Adultery
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B16TE03-EStrategyA year after a massive data breach at its Ashley Madison adultery service, Avid Life Media relaunched in 2016 under a new name. The move was designed to help the business recover from the hacker attack that had exposed its security and governance issues and dashed the desire of investors to take the company public. It was also a strategic step to regain the trust of customers who had been outed as would-be cheaters. Now known as Ruby, the company...Starting at €8.20
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Trumping Divisive Leadership
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B17TD02-EStrategyAmerica faces a previously unimaginable leadership crisis. And that is why businesspeople fleeing White House advisory councils over Trump’s response to the tragic events in Charlottesville—where a civil rights activist was killed during a violent clash—should be applauded, not attacked. Unfortunately, millions of Trump supporters don’t see a problem with the comfort that racists are taking from his leadership. And because these Trump supporters ...Starting at €8.20
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2014 Showed Character Is as Important as Talent
Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B15TA03-ELeadership and People ManagementCharacter has often been described as the difference-maker in sports, business and life. The importance of character in the workplace, especially leader character, has proved all too easy to forget in recent years. Events in 2014 involving Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, radio broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi and NFL running back Ray Rice helped demonstrate the important role that character plays in the success and failure of organizations. As this article stat...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership Lessons from the Pandemic (and Samwise Gamgee)
Thomas Watson; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B20TD07-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy today’s business leaders need to show that great stories about fighting for what really matters can exist beyond fiction.Starting at €8.20
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Why We Should Thank Enron’s Former CFO
Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B16TC02-EAccounting and ControlToo many people fall into the trap of accepting that it is appropriate to use technicalities and loopholes to break the principles behind rules when they think they can get away with it. According to Andrew Fastow, this is a problem approaching endemic proportions as seen in business deals, political fundraising, and tax avoidance. And as the former chief financial officer of Enron, he knows what he’s talking about. In 1999, Fastow’s unique finan...Starting at €8.20
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Taking Disruption to the Bank
Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B18TF05-ELeadership and People ManagementFear of change doesn’t have to paralyze your organization. In this executive Q&A, Royal Bank CEO David McKay explains how to build a pivot culture.Starting at €8.20
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When to Make Private News Public (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Casciaro, Tiziana; Winston, Victoria W.Article HBS-R1203S-ELeadership and People ManagementBetsy Sugarman, a rising star in a biotech company, finds out that she is pregnant. This is good news for her, but bad timing for her career. She has been interviewing internally to take on a new role as the director of overseas operations, a position that requires a great deal of travel. Her prospective boss has all but offered her the job and is expecting a commitment from her within a week. She wants the job and feels she is prepared to do wha...Starting at €8.20
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Being Monica
Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B16TB02-EStrategyIn this Ivey Business Journal Q&A, Monica Lewinsky — former White House intern and “patient zero” of online harassment — talks with Ivey Professor Gerard Seijts about what it takes to survive shame and bullying on a global scale. She offers two important considerations for victims of public humiliation. First, many people — those bullied and otherwise — suffer from shame or some form of public humiliation, and there is no reason to suffer in sile...Starting at €8.20
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Rising Costs of Bad Leadership
Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B16TE04-EStrategyBad leadership is clearly expensive. Fraud resulting from mismanagement at Wells Fargo, for example, has cost the bank about US$300 million in fines and pre-settlement investigative costs while wiping out around US$6 billion in shareholder value. Ex-employees, meanwhile, are seeking at least US$2.6 billion in a class action lawsuit related to the Well Fargo corporate culture that rewarded employees who created multiple accounts for customers with...Starting at €8.20
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The Cross-Enterprise Leader
Mary M. Crossan; Jeffrey Gandz; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B08TD03-ELeadership and People ManagementVisualize a leader with virtues such as courage and integrity, as well as five key types of intelligence, and you've got a clear picture of the cross-enterprise leader. So equipped, such a leader has what it takes to adopt the enterprise-wide perspective that is necessary to make the right decisions for creating and delivering value to all stakeholders. These Ivey professors describe how an organization develops the type of leader to succeed in t...Starting at €8.20