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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Wooden Bakery: Should It Enter the U.S. Market
Hagop Panossian; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B16M128-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA leading family-owned Lebanese bakery-convenience store chain, Wooden Bakery, was in the process of deciding the company’s next options for growth in Lebanon and in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The owner was pondering the use of aggressive growth strategies such as franchising and area-development franchising. Additionally, the founder of the company and its board members were facing the biggest decision in the company’s history as th...Starting at €8.20
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BLC Bank and the Quest for Women's Empowerment in MENA
Farah Matar; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B15M106-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2010, the assistant general manager and head of strategic development at Lebanon’s BLC Bank attended the annual summit of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, a leading organization of financial institutions that drove the creation of women’s wealth worldwide. On her return to Beirut, she encouraged her bank to capitalize on the inclusion of women as a relevant differentiator from both a business and societal perspective. The result of resea...Starting at €8.20
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Eyes of Janus: Evaluating Learning and Development at Tata Motors
Debolina Dutta; Matthew J. ManimalaCase IVEY-9B14C034-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyTata Motors, a leading automobile manufacturer in India, pro-actively responded to the changing competitive environment and redesigned its human capital strategy. As part of the new strategy, huge investments were made in revamping the learning and development function for Tata Motors employees. Multiple initiatives were launched to promote a learning culture, which also earned the company international recognition in the learning and development...Starting at €8.20
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Taxshe Cab Services: Coping with COVID-19 - Teaching Note
Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani; Abhishek Vijaygopal; Matthew J. ManimalaTeaching Note IVEY-W26336-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product W26335.Starting at €0.00
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Distributed Leadership at Google: Lessons From the Billion-Dollar Brand (Spanish version)
Matthew J. Manimala; Kishinchand Poornima WasdaniArticle IVEY-9B13TCS03Leadership and People ManagementGoogle has been ranked as the best place to work in the United States. It practices a time allocation method of 70-20-10, with 70 per cent of employees’ time devoted to Google’s core business of search and advertising, 20 per cent to off-budget products, and 10 per cent to ideas based on personal interests and competencies. Luxury perks and generous rewards for employee innovations improve the likelihood that employees stay at Google instead of f...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainability in the Arab World: The Aramex Way
Dima Jamali; Cedric DawkinsCase IVEY-9B11M060-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 1982, Fadi Ghandour founded Aramex, a leading provider of logistics and transportation solutions with headquarters in Amman, Jordan. From its early inception, Ghandour strategically included principles and practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the company’s culture in order to align business interests and competence with stakeholders’ needs. The community and environment were regarded as key stakeholders driv...Starting at €8.20
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Partnership for Lebanon and Cisco Systems: Promoting Development in a Post-war Context
Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B11M050-EStrategyThe project manager of the Partnership for Lebanon (PFL) and Cisco Systems’s regional director of corporate affairs for the Middle East and Africa met in September 2009, three years after the PFL was first initiated. The meeting primarily revolved around the challenge of sustainability and what useful suggestions they could put forward to their partners to ensure that the projects initiated through the PFL were not dependent on the continuous inv...Starting at €8.20
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Wooden Bakery: Should It Enter the U.S. Market - Teaching Note
Hagop Panossian; Dima JamaliTeaching Note IVEY-8B16M128-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B16M128.Starting at €0.00
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Taxshe Cab Services: Coping with COVID-19
Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani; Abhishek Vijaygopal; Matthew J. ManimalaCase IVEY-W26335-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA former investment banking professional had her eureka moment when she noticed instances of assaults on single women travelling alone in taxi cabs at odd times of the day. The prevalence of these instances led her to begin a safe cab service run by women for women—Taxshe Services Pvt. Ltd. (Taxshe), located in Bengaluru, India. In March 2020, the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic began in India, and a lockdown was announced as a preventive m...Starting at €8.20
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Sapna Book House: Charting a Trajectory for Long-Term Growth - Teaching Note
Matthew J. Manimala; Minu Zachariah; Leena S. Guruprasad; Satya Nandini ArjunanTeaching Note IVEY-8B20M041-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B20M041.Starting at €0.00