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Growth and Transition at Onex Corporation
W. Glenn Rowe; Rod E. White; Maria SemenovaCase IVEY-9B16M123-EStrategyOver its 30-year history, Onex Corporation, a Canadian investment firm, had derived much of its success from the private equity sector. It did so by acquiring attractive portfolio companies, adding value to them by improving their financial and operational performance, and then selling them several years later at an attractive return. However, given the market conditions in 2015, Onex Corporation faced difficulty in successfully acquiring target ...Starting at €8.20
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Fortis Inc. and the $11.8 Billion ITC Decision - Teaching Note
Rod E. White; W. Glenn Rowe; Selena Shannon PritchardTeaching Note IVEY-8B18M020-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B18M020.Starting at €0.00
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Shaw Communications: Becoming a Connectivity Pure Play
Rod E. White; W. Glenn Rowe; Jeremiah De SousaCase IVEY-9B17M072-EStrategyIn late 2015, the chief executive officer of Shaw Communications was considering whether to reduce or divest the company’s media assets. Shaw Communications had been founded as a cable television provider and, over the years, had grown its consumer connectivity businesses to include Internet services, satellite television, landline telephony, and, most recently, cellular network services. Similar to most other major Canadian telecommunications co...Starting at €8.20
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Fortis Inc. and the $11.8 Billion ITC Decision
Rod E. White; W. Glenn Rowe; Selena Shannon PritchardCase IVEY-9B18M020-EStrategyIn late 2015, the executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Fortis, Inc., a homegrown energy delivery company based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, was preparing to meet with the company’s leadership committee. On the agenda was whether Fortis should make an offer to acquire ITC Holdings Corporation, the largest independent transmission utility in the United States. Fortis had a proven track record of acquiring regulated u...Starting at €8.20
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Dunia Finance LLC (A), (B), and (C) - Teaching Note
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Bodily, Samuel E.; Yemen, Gerry; Gibbs, SheaTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0842TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0842Starting at €0.00
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General Electric: An Outlier in Developing CEO Talent
W. Glenn Rowe; Derek Lehmberg; Rod E. White; John R. PhillipsArticle IVEY-9B09TA02-EStrategyA recent Ivey study confirms the commonly held view that General Electric is an excellent breeding ground for future business leaders. This article summarizes the study and its three conclusions: Firms led by CEOs who were trained at GE will outperform firms led by CEOs who were not; GE's reputation for developing CEO talent is, in fact, well deserved and not mere hype; and GE appears to develop more CEO talent than other noted CEO talent-generat...Starting at €8.20
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Picante Mexican Grill: A New Delhi Experience
Raz, Gal; Weiss, Elliott N.; Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Bodily, Samuel E.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OM-1520-EService and Operations ManagementModeled loosely after the American restaurant chain Chipotle, Picante Mexican Grill seeks to offer fresh and healthy vegetarian fast-food options. The owners of this start-up chain in Gurgaon, India, struggle to manage their quickly growing operation. As they consider expanding into new locations, diverse issues—including determining store hours, location, managing centralized production, and meeting staffing needs—challenge the entrepreneurial t...Starting at €8.20
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VinConnect, Inc.: Digital Marketing Strategy
Venkatesan, RajkumarCase DARDEN-M-0864-EMarketingThis case is used in the course elective "Big Data in Marketing." The VinConnect company helped European wineries sell their products directly by using it to facilitate the direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales model to American consumers via offers delivered in e-mail. Unfortunately, the number of purchases has not been as high as VinConnect's president had projected and the open rate for e-mails was high, so potential customers who received the offers...Starting at €8.20
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Alsea: A New CEO Comes on Board - Teaching Note
Jose Antonio Davila; Ernesto Bolio; Rod E. White; W. Glenn Rowe; Selena Shannon PritchardTeaching Note IVEY-8B17M112-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B17M112.Starting at €0.00
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Alsea: A New CEO Comes on Board
Jose Antonio Davila; Ernesto Bolio; Rod E. White; W. Glenn Rowe; Selena Shannon PritchardCase IVEY-9B17M112-EStrategyAlsea was a Mexican-based, family-founded conglomerate operating in six countries in Latin America and Spain. It was a master franchiser for such well-known brands as Starbucks, Domino’s, and Burger King. In late 2016, after years of dramatic growth, Alsea appointed its first chief executive officer (CEO) who was not a family member or had not been involved with the company’s founding or early development. However, family members continued to occ...Starting at €8.20