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Vlaad and Company: Recruiting Women in the Capital Markets
Alison Konrad; Amy WilsonCase IVEY-9B11C011-ELeadership and People ManagementVlaad and Company, a recruiting firm specializing in the Canadian capital markets, has embarked upon an initiative to recruit more women to capital markets jobs. The case describes the early stages of this initiative and provides six examples of capital markets job candidates — four women and two men. The director of the women in capital markets initiative must decide which of these six candidates, if any, to present to client firms. She must als...Starting at €8.20
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Assigned Leaders Group Discussion Exercise: Assessing Your Leadership Skills
Cherlyn Granrose; Alison KonradExercise IVEY-9B12C033-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe purpose of this exercise is to assess students’ group leadership and followership skills. Participants prepare for the exercise individually by reading six mini-cases that describe people-management challenges and then selecting a solution for these challenges from the options provided at the end of each case. During the exercise, participants are randomly assigned to discussion groups of five to six members, where each person serves as a lea...Starting at €8.20
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Red Hat Canada: Bridging the Gender Gap
Alison Konrad; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B18C041-EStrategyIn August 2017, the Canadian country leader of Red Hat Inc., an open source software company, was reviewing the progress made by the Canadian subsidiary of the American multinational in bridging the gender gap. The subsidiary had met its target of increasing the ratio of women in its sales team from 5 per cent in August 2014 to 40 per cent in July 2017. The country leader was examining ways to leverage the takeaways from the four-year experience ...Starting at €8.20
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Women Board Directors: Championing the Tough Issues
Alison Konrad; Nancy McInerney-LacombeCase IVEY-9B13C014-ELeadership and People ManagementIn an environment of heightened shareholder activism in Canada, this case investigates the hypothesis that, compared with their male colleagues, women are the more likely champions of tough issues at the board. Interviews with five female directors provide insight into each of their board battles. Through the detailed enactment of their respective stories, the preconditions prompting their championing efforts and the process of how they engaged t...Starting at €8.20