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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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Readiness to Internationalize at Maynooth Natural Granite
Christopher Williams; Carolyn BurnsCase IVEY-9B14M093-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyWhile internationalization may present growth opportunities for Canadian small businesses, the challenges involved can be daunting. In August 2013 the founder and president of Maynooth Natural Granite was trying to decide whether he should expand his small business internationally. He was satisfied that he was able to turn his gravel pit into a well-recognized supplier of washed decorative rock in Ontario. However, the president was concerned tha...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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Tesco PLC: Strategy for India
Christopher Williams; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B14M096-EStrategyAs multinational enterprises expand operations in emerging economies, identifying and responding to unique marketing challenges may require strategy that focuses on local adaptation and global integration on a country by country basis. In March 2014, Tesco PLC (Tesco), the largest retailer in the United Kingdom and the third largest supermarket group in the world, has signed an agreement with Trent Hypermarkets, the retail division of the Tata Gr...Starting at €8.20
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3M Taiwan: Product Innovation in the Subsidiary
Christopher Williams; Emily LiawCase IVEY-9B11M101-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn January 17, 2005, 3M Taiwan’s function head of its health care business division found himself in a meeting with the Acne Dressing project team. In 2004, the function head had initiated a project team to exploit local market needs for 3M hydrocolloid dressing, a technology that had existed in the company for many years without any practical applications. The local project team suggested applying the material for acne treatment. The product wou...Starting at €8.20
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Morita's Legacy and International Strategy at Sony
Christopher Williams; Nicole Duncan; Gregoire Thomas; Christopher Held; Ami LebendikerCase IVEY-9B12M082-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTwo years after the death of Sony’s visionary founder, Akio Morita, chief executive officer Noboyuki Idei faced a major crisis. Sony had just posted its worst performance in years and had to figure out if its current strategy needed to change. In pursuit of Morita’s vision to bring entertainment to the masses through innovation and applied technology, Sony had grown from a small Japanese company to a US$50-billion-per-year global corporation. As ...Starting at €8.20
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Olympus and the Whistleblower President
Seijiro Takeshita; Christopher WilliamsCase IVEY-9B12M012-EStrategyThe newly appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus Corporation of Japan was called to an emergency board meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss governance issues regarding corporate mergers and acquisitions. However, it would be no ordinary meeting. Since assuming the role of president in April 2011, the president had discovered evidence of corporate fraud on a large scale. He had commissioned an external auditor rep...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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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