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The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2018, Teaching Note
Desai, Mihir A.; Fruhan, William E.; Fan, LeanneTeaching Note HBS-219047-EFinanceTeaching note for case 219046.Starting at €0.00
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The Case of the Unidentified Industries - 2013
Desai, Mihir A.; Fruhan, William E.; Meyer, Elizabeth A.Case HBS-214028-EFinanceThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statementsStarting at €8.20
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The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2013, Teaching Note
Desai, Mihir A.; Meyer, Elizabeth A.; Fruhan, William E.Teaching Note HBS-214030-EFinanceHelps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. This case consists of an exercise in which students are given balance sheet data in percentage form and other selected financial data for companies in 14 industries. The specific task assigned to the student is to use the balance sheet data along with their basic knowledge of the operating conditions and characteristics of these 14 indust...Starting at €0.00
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The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2018
Desai, Mihir A.; Fruhan, William E.; Fan, Leanne; Bhatia, AdilCase HBS-219046-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Comair South Africa: Team Coaching Taking Off
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B20C007-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn May 2019, the head of Organizational Development and Talent for Comair Limited (Comair), was contemplating the dilemma of stimulating higher buy-in for team coaching—a program in formal leadership development emphasizing collaboration and shared responsibility. The long-standing chief executive officer (CEO) had just resigned. He had focused over the last few years on enabling a leadership style of collaboration where departmental silos would ...Starting at €8.20
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Constructing the Medupi Power Station
Caren Scheepers; Schalk MaraisCase IVEY-9B12C015-ECorporate Governance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyMedupi was the first baseload project in South Africa in 20 years. It would be the largest dry-cooled, coal-fired power station in the world and was being developed by Eskom, which generated 90 per cent of Southern Africa’s power, at an estimated cost of R125 billion. In spite of the worldwide concern about greener energy, coal remained the most popular power station fuel for South Africa, due to the country’s vast resources of 224 million tonnes...Starting at €8.20
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Supergroup/South Africa: Contextual Leadership from Turnaround to Strategic Niche
Caren Scheepers; Michael WardCase IVEY-9B19M017-EStrategyIn January 2018, the chief executive officer (CEO) of logistics company Supergroup Limited (Supergroup), considered the ideal weighting of Supergroup’s offshore activities given a weak South African rand and slow growth in the country. The company had nearly become bankrupt in 2009, and the CEO had been hired as the “turnaround” leader who headed its steady recovery, stabilizing the company and building its initiatives toward growth. Now that Sup...Starting at €8.20
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Liberty with Partners for Possibility: Contextual Leadership in Public-Education Impact
Caren Scheepers; Kerrin MyresCase IVEY-9B18M138-EStrategyIn June 2017, a bancassurance director at South Africa’s Liberty Group Limited (Liberty) was making his way to a public school in Soweto, south of Johannesburg. Liberty was an insurance company in South Africa, part of Liberty Holdings, a leading financial-services group with representation in 24 countries across the African continent. As he drove along the highway he wondered how he could encourage more business leaders at Liberty to get involve...Starting at €8.20
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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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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
Desai, Mihir A.; Antoniou, Suzanne; Fan, LeanneCase HBS-221039-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityHow should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to pushStarting at €8.20