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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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Kola Real: La expansión internacional
Ferré, Miguel; Natividad, GabrielCase PAD-DG-C-406EntrepreneurshipDescribe el caso de la internacionalización de una empresa peruana en varios países de la región, partiendo de unos modestos inicios en Ayacucho (1988). Se puede discutir la similitud o diferencias en la forma de nacer según el contexto de cada país.Starting at €8.20
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A Pig in a Poke? Shuanghui’s Acquisition of Smithfield
Chen, Ming-Jer; Chan, Yi Ping; Craddock, JennyCase DARDEN-S-0330-EStrategyThis case stars Long Wan, chairman and CEO of Shuanghui International (Shuanghui), as he works through the postmerger integration of the newly acquired US-based Smithfield Foods (Smithfield). Wan must address many potential hurdles as he sought to integrate two very different companies, on two different continents, separated by a world of cultural and political differences. With its headquarters in rural Virginia and its folksy southern American ...Starting at €8.20
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A Phantom Man(n) at Witchsy: Casting a Spell via Email?
Isabella, Lynn A.; Craddock, JennyCase DARDEN-OB-1255-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the summer of 2015, Los Angeles-based creatives Kate Dwyer and Penelope Gazin were fed up with the censorship of “risqué” goods and artwork sold on the popular online marketplace Etsy. Even though they lacked technical experience and had never built a website before, the two friends committed themselves to building a censorship-free artists’ marketplace, which they would call Witchsy.com. After Dwyer and Gazin had bought the domain name www.w...Starting at €8.20