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Understanding the Link Between Crisis and Innovation
Robert D. Austin; Thomas Watson; Mark HealyArticle IVEY-9B20TD02-EStrategyThe COVID-19 pandemic has businesses around the world experimenting—but it is what happens when things go wrong that separates the innovators from the wannabes.Starting at €8.20
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Volkswagen Strategy 2025: Shifting Gears in Disruptive Times - Teaching Note
Andreas Schotter; Thomas Watson; Ramasastry ChandrasekharTeaching Note IVEY-8B19M047-EStrategyTeaching note for product 9B19M047.Starting at €0.00
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Target’s Big Mistake: Mutated DNA
Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B15TA10-EStrategyIn early 2015, Target announced that its Canadian operation would seek bankruptcy protection and abandon all the retail locations that it had acquired from the Zellers discount chain less than two years before, a move that would eliminate 17,000 jobs. This article examines how management strayed from the company’s founding principles when planning the expansion, which led Target to enter Canada with mutated brand DNA. In the 20th century, Target ...Starting at €8.20
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Managing the Hassle Factor in the Age of Disruption
Andreas Schotter; Paul W. Beamish; Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B20TB07-EStrategyWhen it comes to achieving the best return on foreign investment, research shows that location bias amongst management is a major hidden obstacle.Starting at €8.20
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Rounding Out the U.S. Call for Social Corporate Purpose
Thomas Watson; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B19TE03-EStrategyWhy capitalism needs more than the US Business Roundtable’s new definition of executive responsibilities to survive the significant social and economic challenges presented by the Age of Disruption.Starting at €8.20
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Building and Maintaining Professional Networks in Good Times and Bad
Mark Healy; Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B20TD01-EStrategyRemaining connected doesn’t feel like work for a group of Calgary-based executives who formed a network during an Ivey Business School executive education program in 1979Starting at €8.20
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Hooking Up Lessons from Ashley Madison with Lessons from Enron
Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B15TD06-ELeadership and People ManagementThe hacker attack on Toronto's Avid Life Media — in which confidential information on 32 million Ashley Madison users was released — offers lessons for all companies, not just controversial ones. After all, the hackers in question did not act simply because the company runs the infamous Ashley Madison infidelity service. They were also moved to act by its aggressive marketing and customer service claims, not to mention its short-term thinking whe...Starting at €8.20
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Michael McCain and the Evolution of Good Corporate Leadership
Thomas Watson; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B20TA02-EStrategyIn January 2020, a U.S. hunter-killer drone killed Iran’s second most powerful person, without congressional approval. During the fog of Iran’s response, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot out of the sky over Tehran by jittery Iranian military defense personnel. Michael McCain, CEO of Toronto-based Maple Leaf Foods, blamed Trump for the accident, which claimed the lives of 176 people, including the wife and 11-year-old son of a Ma...Starting at €8.20
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Standing on Principle: The Resignation of Jane Philpott - Teaching Note
Gerard Seijts; Thomas WatsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C019-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for product 9B19C019.Starting at €0.00
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The Sound of Leadership
Thomas WatsonArticle IVEY-9B18TF07-EStrategyResearch into the influence of music on character development shows executives can work toward improving performance while travelling or taking a shower.Starting at €8.20