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Julie Hallman at the Falaise Foundation
Ann C. Frost; Tony S. Frost; Mary GillettCase IVEY-9B16M073-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2014, Julie Hallman was about to assume the presidency of the struggling non-profit arts organization, the Falaise Foundation, which offered a residence for small groups of artists and scholars from around the world to work on creative endeavours at its extensive property in the South of France. The foundation was suffering financially due to a combination of weak fundraising, high operating costs, an ineffective board of trustees, and a m...Starting at €8.20
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Organizational Design at iQmetrix: The Holacracy Decision
Chris Street; Ann C. Frost; Clayton CaswellCase IVEY-9B17C045-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementSoftware development company iQmetrix Software Development Corporation (iQmetrix), headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, had enjoyed success and growth for over two decades. In July 2017, iQmetrix was confronted with the challenge of managing this growth while maintaining its organizational culture as a non-hierarchical, innovative, and open place to work—a place where the best ideas could come from anywhere and where people shared ideas openly and...Starting at €8.20
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iQmetrix-Humanity: Negotiating a Partner Agreement - David Charron's Perspective
Chris Street; Ann C. Frost; Maurice ThibodeauExercise IVEY-9B16C025-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to product 9B16C024.Starting at €8.20
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Newstar Magazine Exercise: Managing Editor Role
Andrew Stevens; Ann C. FrostExercise IVEY-9B17C050-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the Newstar Magazine exercise, participants are assigned one of three roles—managing editor, publisher, or board chair—and provided with information about personnel difficulties that have emerged at the independent Canadian magazine. The organization is small, financially strapped, and conflict has appeared within the magazine’s leadership. The objective of the exercise is to understand the source of this conflict and ultimately to resolve it....Starting at €8.20
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Newstar Magazine Exercise: Board Chair Role
Andrew Stevens; Ann C. FrostExercise IVEY-9B17C052-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the Newstar Magazine exercise, participants are assigned one of three roles—managing editor, publisher, or board chair—and provided with information about personnel difficulties that have emerged at the independent Canadian magazine. The organization is small, financially strapped, and conflict has appeared within the magazine’s leadership. The objective of the exercise is to understand the source of this conflict and ultimately to resolve it....Starting at €8.20
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iQmetrix-Humanity: Negotiating a Partner Agreement-Maurice Thibodeau's Perspective
Chris Street; Ann C. Frost; Maurice ThibodeauExercise IVEY-9B16C024-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementThis negotiation exercise simulates the 2015 negotiation between senior leadership at iQmetrix, a Regina-based point of sale software firm, and Humanity, a San Francisco-based provider of a human resources module that iQmetrix seeks to bundle into its software product. The exercise is unique in that it occurs in a mediated environment where both parties only interact over email. There is no face-to-face interaction, leaving both sides to negotiat...Starting at €8.20
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Newstar Magazine Exercise - Teaching Note
Andrew Stevens; Ann C. FrostTeaching Note IVEY-8B17C050-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for products 9B17C050, 9B17C051, and 9B17C052.Starting at €0.00
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Cómo redefinir un sector en beneficio propio
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-1646Innovation and Change, StrategyEn 1939, a los 26 años, Lew Wasserman llegó a Los Ángeles con la agencia de artistas MCA. Durante los siguientes treinta años convirtió esta firma periférica en el estudio más importante de Hollywood. ¿Cómo se las apañó un intruso como él para cambiar totalmente el panorama competitivo de la industria cinematográfica? El análisis de su fascinante trayectoria revela el proceso por el que una empresa puede alcanzar la llamada ventaja arquitectónic...Starting at €8.20
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Shaping an Industry in Your Favor
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-1646-EInnovation and Change, StrategyIn 1939, at the age of 26, Lew Wasserman arrived in Los Angeles with the talent agency MCA. Over the next three decades, he took MCA from a peripheral player to becoming the dominant studio in Hollywood. How did an outsider manage to change the competitive landscape of the entire moviemaking industry so completely? A study of this fascinating historical account reveals the process by which a firm can achieve architectural advantage. Managers ma...Starting at €8.20
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Responsible Investing Takes Root
Ferraro, FabrizioArticle ART-2314-EFinance, StrategyResponsible investment is moving from being a niche in the asset management universe to increasingly becoming mainstream. In Europe, especially, it appears to be taking off. This article identifies some of the key drivers and the challenges that responsible investment poses to investors and managers as they try to take this novel field and embed it into their institutional practices. Looking to the future, the author highlights three areas that h...Starting at €8.20