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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Virtual AB: An Illusion of Leadership
Olivier BouclierCase IVEY-W33472-ELeadership and People ManagementIn July 2022, upon his return from vacation, Lamar Gilbert, the head of the French subsidiary of successful Swedish unicorn Virtual AB (Virtual), found himself abruptly grappling with an unsettling reality. Leo Svennson, his closest direct report, had been accused of sexually harassing two female colleagues. As he pursued an investigation into the allegations, Gilbert also realized Svennson had blatantly disparaged his authority behind his back. ...Starting at €8.20
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GetYourGuide: Managing a Sudden Shock to Business Growth
Sabrina Goestl; Vanessa C. HasseCase IVEY-W32660-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn March 2020, the German online travel experience platform GetYourGuide faced an abrupt drop in revenues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the drop, the company had been thriving, grown from a simple idea thought up by a group of friends in a student dormitory into a market-leading company in the travel experience industry with a valuation of over US$1 billion (a “unicorn” start-up) and more than 600 employees across fifteen global ...Starting at €8.20
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PLT Consulting: Navigating Inclusion as a Linguistic Minority
Rebecca Piekkari; Hilla BackCase IVEY-W32298-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2021, Robert, a highly qualified immigrant from the United Kingdom, had recently joined PLT Consulting (PLT), a multinational management consulting company, as a junior consultant in the Tallinn, Estonia, office. This professional services firm had a strong international brand. However, Robert soon realized that the organization catered both internally and externally to more local demands. In particular, his lack of local language proficiency ...Starting at €8.20
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Negotiations at an Impasse: Saving Lives - Teaching Note
Smita Prashant Chattopadhyay; Vishnu Kumar VTeaching Note IVEY-W26682-EKnowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product W26681.Starting at €0.00
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Tracy Edwards and Maiden (B): Crafting the Crew
Tracy Edwards; Gerard Seijts; Ann C. FrostCase IVEY-9B21C021-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementSupplement for product 9B21C020.Starting at €5.74
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Tracy Edwards and Maiden (C): Sponsorship, Anyone
Tracy Edwards; Gerard Seijts; Ann C. FrostCase IVEY-9B21C022-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementSupplement for product 9B21C020.Starting at €5.74
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Mint Tax: Identifying Capabilities for Developing a Strategy Perspective
Renate Kratochvil; Christina SchweigerCase IVEY-9B20C002-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyMint Tax was founded in Vienna in 1960. By 2019, the company had approximately 80 employees and a broad client base in the areas of taxation, accounting, and payroll services. Over the previous decade, the company had experienced many successes and failures, including mergers, acquisitions, separations, firm structure changes, and financial losses. However, it had always managed to recover. Mint Tax was considering an expansion of its digital pro...Starting at €8.20
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Transparency International Ukraine
Lucas Monzani; Andrew Rozhdestvensky; Lindsay BirbragerCase IVEY-9B19C026-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe overarching vision of the global nongovernmental organization Transparency International was to free the world from corruption. Transparency International Ukraine (TIU) was founded in 2014, after three failed attempts, to tackle the high level of corrStarting at €8.20
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British Broadcasting Corporation: Under Fire for Gender Pay Inequality
Nidhi S. BishtCase IVEY-9B20C036-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyOn January 10, 2020, Samira Ahmed, a British Asian woman, won a landmark gender discrimination case against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Ahmed’s emphatic victory was a major setback for the BBC, which had been facing accusations of inequitiStarting at €8.20
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Total’s Carbon Capture and Storage Project at LACQ (B): Gaining Public Acceptance of New Technology
Devin McDaniels; Frances BowenCase IVEY-9B10M106-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Total’s Carbon Capture and Storage Project at LACQ (A).Starting at €5.74