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Mahindra & Mahindra in South Africa
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11M106-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations Management, StrategyMahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M) is a manufacturing leader in the utility vehicles (UVs) segment in the Indian automotive industry. Since 2004, M&M has been exporting UVs to South Africa, the only country in the African continent with a significant middle-class population. M&M has set up a fully owned subsidiary in South Africa, which enjoyed the growth wave in the South African automotive industry up to 2007, then fell into a three-year slump, lar...Starting at €8.20
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Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. - Farm Equipment Sector: Acquisition of Jiangling Tractor Company
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B07M035-EStrategyFarm Equipment Services (FES), the tractor manufacturing division of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), is considering entering the Chinese tractor industry through a joint venture with Jiangling Tractor Company (JTC), a state-owned automotive enterprise. M&M had seeded the Chinese tractor market with exports and had concluded that the most efficient and prudent way to serve the Chinese tractor market was through a joint venture with a local partner...Starting at €8.20
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Intel Corp. - Bring Your Own Device
V. Joseph Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13E002-EInformation Technologies, StrategySince early 2009, the information technology (IT) division of a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips had noticed a growing trend among the company’s 80,000 employees worldwide to bring their own smartphones and storage devices to their individual workstations. Recognizing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was not a passing fad but a growing phenomenon, the company decided in January 2010 to formally implement this initiative. As the compan...Starting at €8.20
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Japan Tobacco International (JTI): Achieving Excellence through Diversity
Lee, Yih-Teen; Poelmans, StevenCase DPO-364-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case describes how Japan Tobacco International (JTI) managed the cultural diversity in the company as well as the process of postmerger integration with Gallaher. It demonstrates that diversity can be a natural part of a company and how diversity can be managed through clear leadership from the top and a well-designed system for human resources management. It also raises questions on how to leverage diversity to make the company more innovati...Starting at €8.20
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GM: The Opel Decision
Darren Meister; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B10M022-EStrategyIn July 2009, General Motors Company (GM),the world's second largest automotive enterprise, has come out of a bankruptcy orchestrated by the U.S. federal government. Leaner and focused after a 40-day exercise, GM is still a long way from a full-fledged financial recovery. The company is under a mandate to concentrate first on its U.S. market. Its European subsidiary, which manufactures the Opel cars, has been struggling for nearly a decade. The b...Starting at €8.20
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Seguros Saniplan versus Joan Cots (A)
Poelmans, StevenCase FH-707-ELeadership and People ManagementOn returning from lunch, José Sánchez, sales director of Seguros Saniplan, finds an unpleasant surprise waiting for him: a copy of an e-mail that one of his best area sales managers, Joan Cots, has sent out to all his sales reps, announcing the suspension of all bonuses for the previous quarter and his own resignation. Sánchez talks with Cots' closest colleague and the company doctor and discovers that behind it all lies a serious health problem ...Starting at €8.20
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La comunicación en el proceso de "coaching"
Larburu A.; Poelmans, StevenTechnical Note DPON-67Leadership and People ManagementPara instrumentar el proceso el coach utiliza multitud de herramientas. Sin embargo, todas las técnicas, teorías y procesos que el coach aplica utilizan un medio común, la comunicación. La comunicación es una competencia fundamental de coaching. Por ello, el objetivo de esta nota técnica es profundizar sobre el proceso de comunicación y las variables que intervienen en la comunicación, así como revisar las diversas técnicas de comunicación releva...Starting at €8.20
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Pharmacom
Poelmans, StevenCase FH-698-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes in different stages the development of a stress management program in a pharmaceutical company. The case pleads for a systematic approach, based on empirical data.Starting at €8.20
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Joseph Hansen
Poelmans, StevenCase FH-704-ELeadership and People ManagementJoseph Hansen must choose between different job opportunities: Fronda, Vita and New Clothes, Inc.Starting at €8.20
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ArcelorMittal (B)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B10M002-EStrategyFrom the perspectives of the senior executive of Mittal and the senior executive of Arcelor, this case looks at post-merger integration. As with many mergers, the ArcelorMittal merger was touted as a merger of equals. Unlike most, it was actually managed as such and it worked. The case series looks at three critical decision points (one for each case) and challenges that the two senior executives faced from the line organization during the execut...Starting at €5.74