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Joyus - Strategic Decisions in the Online Video Shopping Market
Matthew Wong; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B16M002-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyJoyus is an ambitious and high-potential company just transitioning out of start-up mode. After three years operating in the growing online video shopping marketplace, all the while developing new technology, business partnerships, and fundraising, Joyus is positioning itself for the next level. The company’s goal is to become the dominant player in the rapidly developing video-based ecommerce marketplace. The chief executive officer and her mana...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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iQmetrix: The Customer Is Always Right
Chris Street; Darren Meister; Tracy ThibodeauCase IVEY-9B16M028-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2015, iQmetrix, a company founded in 1999, developed and sold point-of-sale (POS) software using the software-as-a-service model. Two iQmetrix enterprise account managers were discussing strategies for closing a software subscription deal with a large customer who asked for significant customization to be completed before the deal could be signed. The customization appeared to be critical for the customer, and the account managers thought the ...Starting at €8.20
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Knight Capital Americas LLC
Robert D. Austin; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15E008-EInformation TechnologiesIt took 19 years to build Knight Capital Americas LLC into the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, but on August 1, 2012, it took only 45 minutes for the firm to be wiped out by an information technology (IT) problem: a change in the company's software caused it to lose more than $450 million dollars in less than an hour. Although it was ultimately saved from bankruptcy when it was acquired two days later, the terms of acquisitio...Starting at €8.20
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Vic Progressive - Launch of SkyTrack
Kersi Antia; Darren Meister; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B15A041-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingThe president of Vic Progressive Diamond Drilling, a Canadian enterprise based in Sussex, New Brunswick that provides products and services to mining companies, is reviewing the progress in the market launch of SkyTrack, a new product designed for use in difficult terrain exploration by large mining corporations. Feedback during field trials has been favourable; the innovation is, in fact, customer-led. There is also evidence that this multipurpo...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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Victoria Dalí - CompuGraphics (B)
Andrews, W.; Poelmans, StevenCase DPO-8-ELeadership and People ManagementVictoria did the PTEP. To manage the workload she decided to do her studying in the morning. On weekdays she went to bed after dinner. At four o'clock she got up, studied until eight in the morning and then went to the office. Her husband never saw her study. She had dinner with him, took time to play with their son and enjoy the weekends together and generally tried to be with both of them as much as possible. On Saturday mornings, while Victori...Starting at €5.74
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Foundations of Coaching
Poelmans, Steven; Larburu A.Technical Note DPON-32-ELeadership and People ManagementCoaching has emerged as a learning and development process aimed at closing the gap between what the company is now and what it wants to be in the future. This technical note describes the different types of coaching, the participants, and the actual coaching process.Starting at €8.20
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John Rile
Poelmans, Steven; Ariño, Miguel AngelCase FH-693-ELeadership and People ManagementIn this case we meet John Rile, software engineer with an MBA. He is preparing for a promotion to marketing manager, the night before his talk with the HR manager. But he doesn't seem to be able to concentrate on the report he wants to present. He had a fight with his wife for no clear reason at all. Or was it because she was having problems with the children?Starting at €8.20
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Dropbox: Go-To-Market Sales Strategy
Darren Meister; Matthew WongCase IVEY-9B17M053-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn late 2014, Dropbox, the San Francisco-based pioneering cloud-based file storage service, was at an important stage of its growth. Its user base had expanded into hundreds of millions of users globally, and the company was expanding its service offerings to organizations. At the heart of this expansion was the ever-increasing acquisition of customers in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. As Dropbox targeted larger customers, it needed to c...Starting at €8.20