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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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PeopleFirst Inc: A Star Employee but a Terrible Manager - Teaching Note
Atul TeckchandaniTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C042-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20C042.Starting at €0.00
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EcoWash: A Business Opportunity Worth Pursuing
Atul TeckchandaniCase IVEY-9B15M079-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyEcoWash is an all-in-one system that can be used to clean the interior and exterior of a vehicle in an environmentally friendly manner. A soon-to-be business school graduate has been approached by the inventor of EcoWash to embark on a partnership and to market the product. The opportunity looks promising, but a careful examination of the product and the market place — specifically through the lens of the lean start-up methodology — is needed bef...Starting at €8.20
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Mi Tiendecita de Moda: Selling Fashion Through Facebook in Peru
Matthias A. Tietz; Susan Calderón UrbinaCase IVEY-9B15M065-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA young Peruvian MBA graduate, who previously had worked in international marketing firms, founded an online fashion store and has been selling North American fashion products through Facebook, personal sales events and pop-up stores. The business has been growing profitably with an increasing customer base, overcoming initial supply side issues. Three years after the launch, however, the personal approach to satisfy each customer, a stronghold o...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict Over Leadership and Succession in a Successful Family Business: The Lakkard Leather Company
Simon Parker; Matthias A. TietzCase IVEY-9B11M043-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe founder of the Lakkard Leather Company was proud of his business, and attributed much of its success to his own leadership style, which did not allow for anyone else’s participation in important decisions. When he was badly injured in a car accident, his son stepped in and kept the business going. Without any intention to take over, the son altered the leadership and operations of the company in the space of a few months, so that by the time ...Starting at €8.20
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EcoWash: A Business Opportunity Worth Pursuing - Teaching Note
Atul TeckchandaniTeaching Note IVEY-8B15M079-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B15M079.Starting at €0.00
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Goodjobz: Challenges in Creating a Giver Culture - Teaching Note
Atul TeckchandaniTeaching Note IVEY-8B14C038-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B14C038Starting at €0.00
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Jamie's Market: Challenges Hiring and Onboarding Temporary Workers
Atul Teckchandani; Trey Alvarez; Huiling Chen; Nicole Chen; Andrew Davidas; Kevin Le; Edrees ShalemiCase IVEY-9B21C009-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2020, the flagship location of Jamie's Market, a specialty supermarket retailer in California, struggled to hire enough temporary workers to meet the increased staffing demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new assistant manager, who had been recently transferred to the company's flagship store, was tasked with figuring out what had gone wrong and recommending changes to ensure that the store would have enough qualified workers for ...Starting at €8.20
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Goodjobz: Challenges in Creating a Giver Culture
Atul Teckchandani; Nathaniel Fischer; Gregory LaRosa; Rebecca Monroy; Rishi Patel; Rana Toudiee; Aurelia ZylbermineCase IVEY-9B14C038-ELeadership and People ManagementGoodJobz was a non-profit organization that funded its job training and education programs by re-selling donated goods through its retail stores. The organization helped train over 11,000 people in 2012 and hoped to double that number within five years. To do so, the vice-president of marketing and community development believed that the organization should adopt a “giver” culture. After making significant progress in instilling a giver culture w...Starting at €8.20
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Rosch Innovations: Preparing the Biggest IPO Ever
Matthias A. TietzCase IVEY-9B16M131-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe chief executive officer (CEO) of Rosch Innovations and his team had developed a kinetic power plant that used the buoyancy force of air in water to generate electricity. This breakthrough innovation defied old principles of physics and was therefore difficult to comprehend and communicate. The CEO and his team had grown their network behind the scenes, careful not to raise too much attention from the powerful German energy lobby in the beginn...Starting at €8.20
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Belle Fleur: Buying an Existing Business or Starting Fresh - Teaching Note
Atul Teckchandani; Jana HammoudTeaching Note IVEY-8B18M029-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B18M029.Starting at €0.00