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Amazon Go: Venturing into Traditional Retail
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Aurelia KarpCase IVEY-9B17M092-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn December 2016, Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon), the largest online retailer, entered the offline retailing industry by launching its first Amazon Go store in Seattle. Previously, the company had entered the food, diaper, and housekeeping product manufacturing industries with its Amazon Elements brand. The company had not been profitable until 2001 and was still facing some financial difficulties, but it was named the fourth most valuable public comp...Starting at €8.20
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Yves Saint Laurent: Strategic Leadership of Creative Directors
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Léo Guilbert; Andrew Jiro PoplawskiCase IVEY-9B17M137-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn April 1, 2016, fashion house Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) announced the departure of its creative director who had been responsible for successfully reviving the struggling YSL brand since 2012. Three days after this surprising departure, the company announced that its next creative director would be a relatively inexperienced, 36-year-old designer. After decades of leadership turmoil and financial instability at YSL, the incoming creative directo...Starting at €8.20
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Sibanye: Changing Mindsets in Mining through Contextual Leadership
Caren Scheepers; Ken MathuCase IVEY-9B16C026-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2016, the executive vice-president of commercial services for Sibanye Gold, Westonaria (Sibanye), the largest gold producer in South Africa, faced a challenge. The company’s latest acquisition had been particularly difficult, with much resistance from the acquired management team. Although the executive vice-president tried to empathize with the management team who had done things a certain way for decades, he was frustrated with their lack of...Starting at €8.20
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Anglo American South Africa: Strategically Mining Leadership Talent for Succession - Teaching Note
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Caren ScheepersTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C004-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19C004.Starting at €0.00
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Supergroup/South Africa: Contextual Leadership from Turnaround to Strategic Niche - Teaching Note
Caren Scheepers; Michael WardTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M017-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M017.Starting at €0.00
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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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FNB codeFest: Fostering Corporate Innovation through In-House Hackathons
Jeff Yu-Jen Chen; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19M030-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPeter Alkema, chief information officer of Business Banking at First National Bank in Johannesburg, was puzzling over ways to ensure that codeFest, the event he had inaugurated, would continue to thrive beyond 2018 without his direct involvement. His brainchild had begun in 2015 as a one-day hackathon with 100 participants. Three years later, it had grown to become a six-day coding and innovation extravaganza. Now, in May 2018, Alkema wondered wh...Starting at €8.20
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SweepSouth South Africa: Contextually Intelligent Female Leadership of Entrepreneurial Domestic Services
Tracey Toefy; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B19C010-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2014, an entrepreneur in Cape Town, South Africa, started SweepSouth with her husband. Their mission was to enable dignified home cleaning work for the most vulnerable blue-collar workers, and they offered several services to empower them. When the company struggled to meet the demand for domestic services over the December holiday period, the founders realized the extent of the market’s need to connect domestic workers with potential clients....Starting at €8.20
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Uber Africa: Making Cash and Alternative Payments Work in Kenya through Contextual Leadership - Teaching Note
Caren Scheepers; Anastacia MamaboloTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M019-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M019.Starting at €0.00
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Tesla, Inc.: The Strategic Partnership for a New Gigafactory in China
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong; Viktor Johann WinklerCase IVEY-9B19M083-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn October 2018, Tesla, Inc. (Tesla), an American automotive and energy company, received an approval from Shanghai’s mayor to acquire a plot of land to build a new electric-vehicle (EV) factory, which was expected to produce its first cars in three years, and to have initial capacity of about 250,000 vehicles a year. This move was in response to a significant rise in the Chinese EV market and the additional tariffs imposed by the Chinese governm...Starting at €8.20