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Gillette and the #MeToo Movement
W. Glenn Rowe; Abbas KhambatiCase IVEY-9B20M127-EStrategyOn January 13, 2019, the Gillette Company aired the advertisement “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be.” After the airing, both the company and its chief executive officer were subjected to backlash. The advertisement, launched amid the Gillette brand’s declining market share, addressed the #MeToo movement, sexism in the boardroom, and bullying, and asked viewers, “Is this the best a man can get?” Although the advertisement was intended to challenge ...Starting at €8.20
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Taking a Mexican Company Global-The CEMEX Way
Venkataraman, S.; Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-S-0194-EStrategySuitable for MBA, Executive MBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this case uses CEMEX, a global cement producer based in Mexico, to set the stage for unfolding an analysis of a growth through acquisition strategy. It offers a discussion about the firm’s overall strategy to acquire on a global scale instead of growing organically and provides an opportunity to introduce basic financial, marketing, and operational terms that can be explore...Starting at €8.20
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Reflections on Lessons Learned in the Canadian Navy
W. Glenn RoweArticle IVEY-9B10TE08-EStrategyThere may be no better training ground for being a good leader than the armed forces. This Ivey professor served in the Canadian Navy and the lessons he learned more than 20 years ago have guided his own life and his approach to teaching leadership. Readers will learn what those valuable lessons are in this article.Starting at €8.20
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Dealing with Cartels
David Kunsch; W. Glenn RoweArticle IVEY-9B13TF02-EStrategyIn most free-market economies, restrictions exist to curb the activity of cartels — groups of otherwise independent businesses that collaborate to lessen or prevent competition. Between 1990 and 2008, the total known affected sales of cartel activity topped US$16 trillion. Although government bodies have committed substantial resources to battling illegal corporate activity, it still happens and many corporations reoffend after being sanctioned f...Starting at €8.20
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Comerica Incorporated: The Valuation Dilemma
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Ramraika, BaijnathCase DARDEN-F-1581-EFinanceIn early September 2008, in the midst of the subprime crisis, a manager with the student-run Darden Capital Management fund, wants to evaluate whether Comerica Incorporated, a regional bank based in Dallas, Texas, is a good candidate for inclusion in his portfolio. He needs to perform a valuation of the bank to assert whether the bank seems to be undervalued by the market or whether a further decline in value might be possible. He must account fo...Starting at €8.20
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The Euro Zone and the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Risell, AdamCase DARDEN-F-1649-EFinanceIn January 2011, during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jason Sterling, a hedge fund manager, was conducting online research to see if he could trade on any newsworthy information emerging from the summit. Sterling’s fund traded primarily in sovereign debt, and he needed to figure out if European leaders would be able to come up with a viable solution to the crisis or whether the debt crisis would lead to the defa...Starting at €8.20
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Cutting through the Fog: Finding a Future with Fintech
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Cartwright, KaylaCase DARDEN-F-1767-EFinanceThe case examines the scope, history, and scale of the fintech industry, while also defining what fintech may be…and what it is not. The protagonist, management consultant Carolina Costa, is tasked to advise a client bank executive regarding alternative paths into fintech that he could choose. The material includes an overview of the fintech market, including analysis of entrants from start-up incubators, banks, and technology companies. The cas...Starting at €8.20
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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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JPMorgan and the Dodd-Frank Act
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Risell, AdamCase DARDEN-F-1654-EFinanceIn October, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is preparing for the company’s 2010 Q3 earnings conference call and wondering how to address the inevitable questions related to financial reform. It has been just over two months since the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) had been passed, and there was still much uncertainty as to how JPMorgan should address the reforms. JPMorgan had reported stronger than expec...Starting at €8.20
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Rio Tinto and the Indigenous Juukan Gorge Sites
Amy Moore; Wren Montgomery; W. Glenn Rowe; Abbas KhambatiCase IVEY-W28178-EKnowledge and CommunicationIn May, 2020, Rio Tinto PLC, a global mining company, blasted a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in the Juukan Gorge, an area in Western Australia. While Rio Tinto’s actions were legal, the company was nonetheless widely criticized for its blasting of the sacred site, which contained remains and artefacts dating back tens of thousands of years. Furthermore, investigations revealed that Rio Tinto had knowledge of the sacred nature of the site. Inte...Starting at €8.20