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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Don't Always Mind the Talent Gap
Tony S. FrostArticle IVEY-9B15TF01-ELeadership and People ManagementIn identifying high-potential employees and leaders, the HR world tends to prefer “all-rounders,” meaning individuals who score well across a range of competencies deemed necessary to lead and grow businesses. As a result, many HR departments focus executive development plans on individuals with limited weaknesses — weaknesses that can be fairly easily “rounded off” or trained away. The logic behind this appears sound. But this reasoning can elim...Starting at €8.20
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Examining Supply-Side Benefits of Virtual Teaching
Ann C. Frost; Tony S. FrostArticle IVEY-9B20TC02-EStrategySome physical classroom experiences can’t be beat, but moving university programs online offers instructors unexpected advantages.Starting at €8.20
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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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Siam Canadian Foods Co. Ltd. (Spanish version)
John R. Kennedy; Tony S. Frost; Tom GleaveCase IVEY-9A97GS03Entrepreneurship, StrategyEl director de gerente y fundador de la compania Siam Canadian Foods Co. Ltd., basados en Bangkok consideraba las oportunidades de negocio emergentes en el pais vecino Birmania (tambien conocida como Myanmar). Aunque relativamente sea subdesarrollado comparado al resto de Asia Sur-Oriental, Birmania estuvo experimentando niveles aumentados de actividad de la inversion extranjera estos ultimos anos. Tailandia, que habia considerado entrar en Birma...Starting at €8.20
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Sun Life Financial: A Potential Indian Life Insurance Joint Venture
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future, product 9B07M045, hones in on Sun Life's decision to re-enter the Indian insurance market.Starting at €8.20
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Laurs & Bridz: Human Resource Policies for Sales Personnel - Teaching Note
Sandeep Puri; Bindu GuptaTeaching Note IVEY-8B18A006-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B18A006.Starting at €0.00
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Maha Research Labs: Sales Force Effectiveness
Sandeep Puri; Rakesh Singh; Bindu Gupta; Shraddha PuriCase IVEY-W27721-EKnowledge and Communication, MarketingIn January 2022, Maha Research Labs Private Limited (MRL) needed to boost its sales force effectiveness (SFE). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MRL experienced losses in sales revenue and saw dwindling profits through 2020 and 2021. The pandemic had changed the sales ecosystem of the pharmaceutical industry, with many physicians and retailers now preferring online sales presentations. MRL’s managing director was concerned about the increased marketi...Starting at €8.20
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How to Build a Healthy Leadership Pipeline
Tony S. FrostArticle IVEY-9B15TB04-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen it comes to the development of future leaders, even the best CEOs can fail to give pipeline building the attention it deserves. Leadership pipelines should be viewed in the same way that an energy firm thinks about building pipelines that carry oil to market. In other words, it requires time, attention and significant financial resources. This article offers three steps that executives can follow to build a leadership pipeline. First, when d...Starting at €8.20
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Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M045-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Sun Life Financial cases allow students to take a cross-enterprise leadership approach in examining Sun Life's effort to re-enter the Indian insurance market. Set in March 1999, a vice-president in Sun Life's international team is looking at international expansion options. In its domestic market, Sun Life, relative to its peers, has had below average financial performance. With the domestic insurers demutualizing (i.e. converting from a poli...Starting at €8.20
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Sarva Pharmaceuticals in Cambodia: Fight or Fold - Teaching Note
Sandeep Puri; Rakesh Singh; Raj Agnihotri; Bindu GuptaTeaching Note IVEY-8B20A060-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B20A060.Starting at €0.00